The 3 Worlds of Gulliver burlesque." Ray Harryhausen did the squirrel and crocodile sequences in the film. The oldest Harryhausen model still existing that was made for the film is the squirrel from "Gulliver", obtained from a taxidermist by Harryhausen. The original armatured model of the crocodile used in the film was mysteriously lost. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver The 3 Worlds of Gulliver is a 1960 Eastmancolor Columbia Pictures fantasy film loosely based upon the 18th century Irish novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. The film stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as his fiancée Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni
Gulliver's Travels (1939 film) location of Miami. With all of this drama, it looked as though Fleischer would never meet the delivery date. Fleischer Studios delivered "Gulliver" for Paramount's planned Christmas release schedule, opening in New York on December 20, 1939, going into general release two days later. Considering the potential demonstrated in the two Popeye specials, "Gulliver’s Travels" seemed a lesser experience. This much-anticipated feature produced by Max Fleischer was still met with by an eager public and started out well, breaking box office records in spite of the inevitable comparisons to "Snow White". Based on the overwhelming business success of "Gulliver’s Travels"