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The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The land is the subject of James Gillray's satirical hand-coloured etching and aquatint print, titled The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag. [13]
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. [3] Released to cinemas in the United States on December 22, 1939, [4] by Paramount Pictures, the story is a very loose adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel of the same name, specifically only the first part of four, which tells the story of ...
Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants, [1] is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.
"It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" is a popular song with words by Sammy Timberg & Winston Sharples and music by Al J. Neiburg. [1] It was featured in the animated feature film Gulliver's Travels in 1939. [1] It was a hit in the UK in 1940 during the Battle of Britain, having been played heavily on BBC radio. [2]
Crayola Kids Adventures: Tales of Gulliver's Travels (1997): Live-action direct-to-video film starring children with Adam Wylie as Gulliver. [15] Land of the Giants (1968): A series about seven Earthlings traveling through a space warp to a planet similar to Earth but, as with the Brobdingnagian section of "Gulliver", everyone and everything is ...
Epic Garden Music is the debut studio album by English post-punk band Sad Lovers & Giants. It was released in September 1982 on the band's own record label, Midnight Music. The album originally charted on the UK Independent Albums Chart at number 21. In 1988 a CD reissue was released with 7 bonus tracks taken from three 7-inch releases.
The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4] The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads. Yahoo was used as a cry of elation in a song from the 1961 Hindi film Junglee. [5]