Product Description

Digitally restored and re-mastered using state-of-the-art technology, Max Fleischer’s song-filled, 1939 masterpiece comes to life for the first time ever in awe-inspiring high definition. Richly drawn from the timeless tale by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels follows the legendary adventures of a shipwrecked sailor among the tiny people of Lilliput. In this strange land, Gulliver brings peace to two feuding kingdoms and reunites a prince with his princess before returning to the sea in one of the most “hap-hap-happy” endings of all time. Featuring breathtaking, newly-enhanced picture and sound, this definitive edition of Gulliver’s Travels is a feast for the eyes and ears that your whole family will enjoy for years to come!

Specifications:
Restored and Re-mastered from the Original Source 35mm Film and Enhanced for 16x9
Three Audio Options: Newly-Enhanced 5.1 Dolby Digital, Enhanced Stereo, Restored Original Soundtrack

Bonus Features:
Two Classic Gabby Cartoons (made from the original feature outtakes): “Swing Cleaning” and “King for a Day”
“The Making of a Cartoon” (restored Fleischer Studios documentary)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20443 in DVD
• Brand: KOCH ENT.
• Released on: 2009-03-10
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 77 minutes

Features

• In 1939, Dave and Max Fleischer--who created theic jazzy Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons--turned their animation skills to a feature film adaptation of Swift'sic novel. The film is alive with great visual and verbal gags and amazingly surreal visuals, bothic Fleischer traits. This animationic picked up 2 Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Score and Best Song ("Faithful Forever"

Customer Reviews

Butchered and Distorted... just like the Blu-Ray
A genuine pity that this delightful animated version of Jonathan Swift's classic has been so abused in this purported "restoration." Aside from the excessive clean-up which wipes away the details along with the scratches and leaves a very flat look (albeit with bright colors), the movie has been cropped and geometrically distorted to an aspect ratio of approximately 1.66x1. Virtually all Hollywood films made prior to 1953 were shot and composed for the much more square 1.37x1 screen (just about identical to the older 4x3 TV sets). For years movie fans have badgered TV stations and video companies to letterbox post-1953 widescreen films so as to avoid cropping important information out of the image. Now that we have widescreen TVs the opposite problem exists and it's the movies made prior to 1953 that will suffer as the tops and bottoms of the image will be removed (or the image geometrically "squished"). If you care about movies please don't support this practice, and avoid this product.

Terrible
This is a terrible redo. They took a 4:3 frame and stretched it. Never do that. Leave it in its original format. E1 is not up to snuff to do this apparently.

You can spend less money and get an unaltered version
This is just a head's up to the people who haven't converted to Blu-Ray just yet, and were considering giving this DVD a purchase. The 5-star reviews for this product are all fake.

Koch completely butchered this classic animated feature. The most notable alteration to the film was stretching the picture from its original 1.37:1 aspect ratio into a 1.77:1 aspect ratio so it will fill up the entire screen on an HDTV. As a result, Gulliver and all the characters look fatter than they actually are. Aside from altering the picture, sound effects have been added to the soundtrack that weren't originally there. Lastly, the two Gabby cartoons in the bonus features section are not outtakes from the movie. A series of Gabby theatrical shorts were actually made to build on the success of this feature film.