Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 film based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. At the very end of the film, having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag,
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants exposure design to merge the various elements and give them a sense of apparently seamless action. Some scenes were filmed outdoors, in Méliès's garden in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, so that the camera could be far away enough from the Lilliputians to make them look small. "Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants" was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 426–429 in its catalogues. In early 1903, the Edison Manufacturing Company sold duplicated prints of "Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants", as well as of Méliès's other films "Joan of Arc" and "Robinson Crusoe", in the