Gulliver Mickey
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Directed by | Burt Gillett |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Gulliver Mickey is a black and white Mickey Mouse short, produced by Walt Disney and released by United Artists in 1934.
Plot
Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After poking Mickey with a pin, Mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the Liliput sequences of Gulliver's Travels, pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (Pete). However, after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod, which scares Mickey out of his wits.
As soon as Mickey had managed to struggle to be free from the spider's long legs, he immediately gets the spider away. But in Mickey's story, he is battling a cushion making feathers fly everywhere!
Legacy
This short would later be adapted as part of the Timeless River world in Kingdom Hearts II as a mission where Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy protect the town from the Heartless, led by one attacking from an airplane.
External links
- 1934 films
- 1934 animated films
- Disney animated short films, 1930s
- Mickey Mouse short films
- American black-and-white films
- American films
- English-language films
- Gulliver's Travels
- Films about spiders
- Films set in a fictional country
- Films directed by Burt Gillett
- Films produced by Walt Disney
- Films scored by Frank Churchill
- Disney animated film stubs