History Trivia / GulliversTravels

** In the end, while the film was a success at the box office, making $3.27 million (equal to almost $68 million adjusted for inflation) in the United States, Paramount deliberately discounted the money the film made in Europe before World War II broke out there, meaning the film had much overhead left to be paid, leaving the Fleischers in the red. Critical reaction was also mixed, with a cruel remark from rival Walt Disney quipping "We can make a better film than that with our second-string animators". Not helping that Fleischer Studios was held under a $350,000 penalty for going over budget due to the move to Miami, transporting the film for processing and crash course training new artists.

** Some of the inventions in Lagado don't seem too far-fetched anymore, such as the weaver trying to make use of spider's webs in cloth (as in [[http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ this Wired article]]).

* TropeNamer;
** GulliverTieDown
** {{Lilliputians}}
** LilliputianWarriors.

!! The 1996 miniseries:
* AllStarCast: Creator/TedDanson, Creator/MarySteenburgen, James Fox, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/EdwardFox, Creator/EdwardWoodward, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Creator/JohnGielgud, Creator/NedBeatty, Creator/OmarSharif, Creator/GeraldineChaplin, Creator/KristinScottThomas, Shashi Kapoor and Creator/IsabelleHuppert as the voice of Mistress.
* FakeBrit: Americans Creator/TedDanson and Creator/MarySteenburgen play Gulliver and his wife, who are both English.
* FollowTheLeader: The series was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar fantasy miniseries/TV movies with [[AllStarCast All-Star Casts]], mostly for Creator/{{NBC}}, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/The10thKingdom'' was the most elaborate.
* RealLifeRelative:
** Creator/TedDanson and Creator/MarySteenburgen were married at the time of their portraying Gulliver and his wife and still are.
** James Fox (Dr. Bates) and Creator/EdwardFox (General Limtoc) are brothers.
** Creator/TomSturridge (Tom Gulliver) is the son of Phoebe Nicholls (The Empress of Lilliput) and the director Charles Sturridge.

* FollowTheLeader: The series was enough of a ratings and critical success in spring 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar fantasy miniseries/TV movies with [[AllStarCast All-Star Casts]], mostly for Creator/{{NBC}}, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/The10thKingdom'' was the most elaborate.

* FollowTheLeader: This was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar fantasy miniseries and TV movies with [[AllStarCast All-Star Casts]], mostly for Creator/{{NBC}}, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/The10thKingdom'' was the most elaborate.

* FollowTheLeader: This was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar fantasy miniseries and TV movies with [[AllStarCast All-Star Casts]], mostly for Creator/{{NBC}, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/The10thKingdom'' was the most elaborate.
* RealLifeRelative:

* FollowTheLeader: This was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar AllStarCast fantasy miniseries and TV movies, mostly for NBC, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/The10thKingdom'' was the most elaborate.

* FollowTheLeader: This was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar AllStarCast fantasy miniseries and TV movies, mostly for NBC, over the next few years. ''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' was the most elaborate.

* FollowTheLeader: This was enough of a ratings and critical success in 1996 that Hallmark Entertainment went on to produce a string of similar AllStarCast fantasy miniseries and TV movies, mostly for NBC, over the next few years.
''Series/Merlin1998'' and ''Film/AliceInWonderland1999'' were the most successful, while ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' was the most elaborate.

!! Ted Danson Mini-series

** In the end, while the film was a success at the box office, making $3.27 million (equal to almost $68 million adjusted for inflation) in the United States, Paramount deliberately discounted the money the film made in Europe before World War II broke out there, meaning the film had much overhead left to be paid, leaving the Fleischers in the red. Critical reaction was also mixed, with a cruel remark from rival Walt Disney quipping "We can make a better film than that with our second-string animators". Not helping that Fleischer Suidos was helped under a $350,000 penalty for going over budget due to the move to Miami, transporting the film for processing and crahs course training new artists.

** In the end, while the film was a success at the box office, making $3.27 million (equal to almost $68 million adjusted for inflation) in the United States, Paramount deliberately discounted the money the film made in Europe before World War II broke out there, meaning the film had much overhead left to be paid, leaving the Fleischers in the red. Critical reaction was also mixed, with a cruel remark from rival Walt Disney quipping "We can make a better film than that with our second-string animators".

* CutSong: The VillainSong [[https://youtu.be/9u24Stj4Pu4 "Pussyfootin' Around"]] was meant to introduce King Bombo's spies, Sneak, Snoop and Snitch. While lyrics were written, the song was ultimately cut due to production already having too much going on. The instrumental however was recorded and ultimately used as their {{Leitmotif}} in their Animated Antics shorts as well as the theme of the WesternAnimation/ColorClassics short "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery".

** [[https://youtu.be/swYu8b0uCFY "Cheerio"]] was a song meant to give adde depth to the two kings. It too was cut due to production issues and time crunch.

* CutSong: The VillainSong of the film [[https://youtu.be/9u24Stj4Pu4 "Pussyfootin' Around"]] was meant to introduce King Bombo's spies, Sneak, Snoop and Snitch. While lyrics were written, the song was ultimately cut due to production already having too much going on. The instrumental however was recorded and ultimately used as their {{Leitmotif}} in their Animated Antics shorts as well as the theme of the WesternAnimation/ColorClassics short "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery".

* CutSong: The only VillainSong of the film [[https://youtu.be/9u24Stj4Pu4 "Pussyfootin' Around"]] was meant to introduce King Bombo's spies, Sneak, Snoop and Snitch. While lyrics were written, the song was ultimately cut due to production already having too much going on. The instrumental however was recorded and ultimately used as their {{Leitmotif}} in their Animated Antics shorts as well as the theme of the WesternAnimation/ColorClassics short "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery".

* DeletedSong: The only VillainSong of the film [[https://youtu.be/9u24Stj4Pu4 "Pussyfootin' Around"]] was meant to introduce King Bombo's spies, Sneak, Snoop and Snitch. While lyrics were written, the song was ultimately cut due to production already having too much going on.

** Tom Sturridge (Tom Gulliver) is the son of Phoebe Nicholls (The Empress of Lilliput) and the director Charles Sturridge.