| Gulliver Mickey | |
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| Directed by | Burt Gillett |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Walt Disney Marcellite Garner Pinto Colvig Billy Sheets |
| Music by | Frank Churchill |
| Animation by | Art Babbitt Johnny Cannon Les Clark Ugo D'Orsi Norman Ferguson Jack Hannah Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Bill Roberts Ben Sharpsteen Cy Young |
| Color process | Black & white |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gulliver Mickey is a black and white short cartoon in theMickey Mouse series, produced byWalt Disney and released byUnited Artists in 1934. It was the 66thMickey Mouse short film to be released, and the fourth of that year.[2]
Mickey is first seen readingGulliver's Travels, the 1726 novel byJonathan Swift, while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. He then joins in their play by hiding under the rug, pretending to be a whale. After poking Mickey with a fork, causing their "ship" to collapse, the children start to cry. Mickey manages to calm them down by retelling the Liliput sequences ofGulliver'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), but after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to afishing rod, which scares Mickey out of his wits.
As soon as Mickey had manages 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.
Gulliver Mickey is adapted inKingdom Hearts II as a mission in theTimeless River world, whereSora,Donald Duck andGoofy protect the town from theHeartless.
The short was released on December 2, 2002, onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.[4]
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