Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (film)
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Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants) is the first film
adaptation of Jonathan Swift
's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels
. It is a silent film, released in 1902 in France and 1903 in the US. It was directed by Georges Méliès
.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
adaptation of Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...
. It is a silent film, released in 1902 in France and 1903 in the US. It was directed by Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
.