Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants, is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel "Gulliver's Travels". Méliès himself plays Gulliver in the film. The visual differences of scale between Gulliver and the countries he visits were created using multiple exposures and miniature models; Méliès uses substitution splices and careful
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants It is unknown whether Méliès authorized the coloring, as the stencil process is highly unusual in his oeuvre; normally, his films were colored using an entirely freehand method supervised by the colorist Elisabeth Thuillier. In their study of film adaptations of British literature, Gregory M. Colón Semenza and Robert J. Hasenfratz called "Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants" a "gorgeous film" that "remains very watchable due to its sheer imaginative and visual invention". Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's