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Synopsis
A shipwrecked traveller awakens among the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. His enormous size gives him unexpected importance in a quarrel between neighbouring kingdoms. A royal wedding and a dispute over songs become matters in which the outsider may help restore peace.
Cast
DirectorsDave Fleischer'Animation directors'Seymour KneitelWillard BowskyTom PalmerGrim NatwickWilliam HenningRoland CrandallThomas JohnsonRobert LeffingwellFrank KellingWinfield HoskinsOrestes Calpini
Behind the scenes
This was Fleischer Studios' first animated feature. Paramount commissioned it after Snow White's success, while the story freely adapts the Lilliput portion of Jonathan Swift's novel into a musical fantasy.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Jessica Dragonette — Cities Service Petroleum Products Uploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia · Public domain
- Lanny Ross — Benton & Bowles, advertising agency for General Foods, the program sponsor. Photographer-Elite Studios, New York. · Public domain
- Pinto Colvig — Byington Ford · CC BY-SA 4.0
