Release
Like Snow White before it, Gulliver was a box-office success, and led to the production of another Fleischer/Paramount feature, Mr. Bug Goes to Town. However, business-related problems which arose during the production of Mr. Bug, the studio in debt from unsuccessful cartoons and the simmering feud between Max and Dave reaching new heights: including Dave wanting to write the score for the film, would result in Paramount's absorption of the Fleischer Studio in 1941 becoming Famous Studios. Gulliver's Travels is now in the public domain, because its copyright was not renewed, and is widely available on home video and DVD. E1 Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray Disc on March 10, 2009, but received strong criticism for presenting the movie in a stretched and cropped 1.78:1 format, as well as applying an egregious amount of noise reduction.
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