Released in 1939, this was only the worlds second full length animated motion picture and although it was box-office success, it never managed to recover its enormous cost, which went nearly $500,000 over budget. Unlike Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, which was all hand drawn animation, Max and Dave Fleischer decided to use ‘rotoscoping’ for the character of Gulliver, a method devised by the Fleischers where the drawing was achieved by tracing over the movements of a live actor, however the rest of the characters were animated by hand.
When I joined in mid 1975, Derek had already printed these two single colour labels for the super 8 prints, ready for when they arrived from the labs, and it would be a number of years before we printed a very colourful new label for the film.
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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