Gulliver’s Travels

Here are a few posters for Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels, the second ever feature length animated film after Disney’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. 

The posters are very attractive but the film itself has been criticised quite a bit. I don’t mind the film but would have liked to have seen the Fleischer’s original idea where Popeye would have played Gulliver, in the tradition of the earlier Popeye 2 reelers. 

I suppose the problem with Gulliver is that most people have only seen it via the cheap and nasty public domain DVDs that you can pick up from those $2 shops. These all seem to have been made from a pretty rotten quality print and can make the film almost unwatchable.

Anyway, the posters are all very nice and show just how much effort went into advertising a film back in the 1930s. Compare these to one of today’s animated films like Shrek.

Popeye The Sailor Meets Sindbad The Sailor

Here’s the poster from my favourite Popeye cartoon, the 2 reel special Popeye The Sailor Meets Sindbad The Sailor. This film and the other two reelers, were used to prepare the Paramount to the idea of making a feature length animated film.

Favourite Movie Posters

Browsing Moviegoods website I wonder how the posters for modern movies stack up against the old classics.

Slumdog Millionaire won the best picture Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards. The poster is very modern but I like it a lot.

The poster for the 1997 film Titanic takes a lot of cues from the 1942 classic Casablanca. 

The posters for the 1933 version of King Kong are my favourites.

The posters from Peter Jackson’s 2005 film try to evoke the original posters and movie to a degree, but just don’t work for me. Much like his movie they seem to lack heart.

The posters from the 1977 version of King Kong are just tacky, so typical of the 70s.

I may do more of these comparisons in the future!