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Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)

Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants poster
Original title
Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants
Directed by
Georges Méliès
Genre
fantasy film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
4 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 44 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A traveler journeys to islands where he is first a giant among tiny people then a small person among giants. The film uses early special effects to show these size differences.

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What happens

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, is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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