''Gulliver Mickey'' is a black and white short cartoon in the '' Mickey Mouse'' series, produced by

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and released by

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in 1934. It was the 66th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the fourth of that year.

Plot

Mickey is first seen reading '' Gulliver's Travels'', the 1726 novel by

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, while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. He then joins in their play by hiding under the rug, pretending to be a whale. After poking Mickey with a fork, causing their “ship” to collapse, the children start to cry. Mickey manages to calm them down by retelling the Liliput sequences of ''Gulliver's Travels'', pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (

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). However, after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod, which scares Mickey out of his wits. As soon as Mickey had managed to struggle to be free from the spider's long legs, he immediately gets the spider away. But in Mickey's story, he is battling a cushion making feathers fly everywhere!

Legacy

This short would later be adapted as part of the Timeless River world in '' Kingdom Hearts II'' as a mission where Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy protect the town from the Heartless, led by one attacking from an airplane.

Voice cast

* Mickey Mouse:

* Pluto:

Pinto Colvig Vance DeBar Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), professionally Pinto Colvig, was an American voice actor, newspaper cartoonist, and circus and vaudeville performer whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging. C ...

* Mickey's Nephews:

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* Giant Spider: Billy Sheets

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on '' Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White''.

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