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Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants

19024 minFrance
Fantasy

Synopsis

Gulliver encounters worlds in which his own size becomes extraordinary. Among tiny people he towers over his surroundings; among giants the relationship reverses. The short turns the traveler's changing scale into a sequence of visual encounters.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
4:16
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Georges Méliès · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGeorges Méliès

Behind the scenes

Méliès plays Gulliver and combines multiple exposures, miniatures and carefully separated camera distances. Some scenes were filmed in his garden so the performers representing Lilliputians could be placed far enough away to appear small.

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  • Georges Méliès — Georges Méliès; Publicity materials for an exhibition at La Caixa Foundation: http://press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/exhibiton-georges-melies-magic-of-cinema-caixaforum-barcelona-eng__816-c-17952__.html · Public domain

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