Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
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