![]() ![]() (At one point they considered casting Popeye as Gulliver – which might have made for an even more interesting movie.) The Fleischers’ traditional approach was to render their audience giddy with one joke after another. They had barely 12 months, since Paramount wanted to open Gulliver during the 1939 Christmas season. Disney had taken nearly four years to make Snow White. In any case, they had their work cut out for them. (Disney would go through his own labor turmoil a few years later.) The brothers decided to abandon union-friendly New York for the warmer climate and cheap, unorganized labor of the South. The move from New York to Florida was a response to the 1937 strike by animators that had crippled the studio. Financed by Paramount, it was the first completely air conditioned building in Florida. ![]() Gulliver’s Travels was animated at the Fleischers’ new studio in Miami, Florida. (The novel’s second half finds Gulliver in a land of giants – but that part of the story was dropped.) What with its story of the shipwrecked Gulliver being held captive by a society of combative tiny people, the story offered all sorts of visual possibilities. It was Max Fleischer’s favorite book from boyhood. Prodded into action, the brothers announced that they would adapt Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. But the financial and artistic success of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 convinced the brass at Paramount – which financed the Fleischers – that they needed their own feature animated film. ![]()
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