The story of Gulliver as told in Super-Dynamation! This interpretation is treated in a fairy-tale type way, beginning in Wapping in 1699, where Dr Gulliver and his fiancee Elizabeth are struggling to make ends meet. In the hope of making money from a sea-voyage, Gulliver sets sail with a local captain who insists it will make Gulliver rich. Aboard ship, they find that Elizabeth has stowed away with them, and Gulliver insists that she should return home. But in an argument on the storm-tossed deck Gulliver is swept overboard by a wave.
He awakes in Lilliput. All the residents are tiny, and he himself is a giant in this land. The Lilliputians tie the still-exhausted Gulliver up with ropes, but he proves to be kindly and not a threat, so he is released. The proud king allows him to build a boat, and Gulliver helps Lilliput in return by using his size and strength. However the king realises that Gulliver could be useful in destroying Lilliput's enemy, the land of Blefuscu. The two islands are at war over a vain disagreement about the correct way to break eggs! Gulliver agrees to help by taking away Belfuscu's ships, and is awarded a medal for it, but the king wants more vengeance. Gulliver refuses to help further, which angers the king. Gulliver helps a man called Reldresal to meet his loved one, which also angers the king as he sees treason there. Finally Gulliver puts out a fire by spitting wine over it, in the process ruining the Queen's dress. The king now wants Gulliver dead so he is forced to leave in the boat he has now completed.

He arrives at Brobdingnag. In a complete reversal, all the people here are giants compared to him, now tiny. A girl, Glumdalclitch, takes him to the king, where he meets Elizabeth again. The king has a collection of tiny animals, one including an animated crocodile.
Gulliver and Elizabeth are married. They go on a honeymoon away from the king's castle, but Gulliver is dragged away by a huge squirrel (animated). Glumdalclitch comes to the rescue. Gulliver helps the Queen when she complains of an upset stomach, and he uses his medical knowledge to cure her. But the king and his own doctor, Makovan, are becoming increasingly suspicious of Gulliver's methods, thinking it must be witchery and not the intelligence of science. Makovan accuses Gulliver of being a witch and the king makes Gulliver fight his pet crocodile, in an animation sequence that is well up to Harryhausen's usual standard. Gulliver kills it, and Glumdalclitch comes to the rescue again by taking Gulliver and Elizabeth away with her. She places them inside her basket and casts them into the river, where they are taken out to sea and finally reach England once again.
Generally this seems one of the least popular of Harryhausen's features, but it is very well done. Kerwin Mathews shines, Bernard Herrmann's music is good as usual, and while there are only two animated creatures, the travelling-matte work of size-perspective is done very well. Fans of Harryhausen will not be too disappointed, however the lack of animated creatures is all personal preference, and the story itself is told in an entertaining way.

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Trivia:

• One of the key sequences was when Gulliver was tied down on the beach, this was created by the use of travelling mattes and split screens.

• Locations used for this film were, the famous Palacio de Oriente at La Granja, Segovia's chateau and forests, the ancient walled city of Avilla and the mountains of Boca del Azno.

• They had to build oversized pieces in the Madrid studio for the chessboard scene.