Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)

Name: Jack and the Beanstalk
Genre: fantasy film, silent film, adventure film
Released: 1902-07-15
Duration: 10 min

Directed by: George S. Fleming, Edwin Stanton Porter
Genre: fantasy film, silent film, adventure film
Country: United States
Runtime: 10 min
Rating: 6.0 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Jack trades a cow for magic beans. The beans grow into a giant beanstalk leading to a world above the clouds.

whimsicalplayfuldatedsimplefantasticaladventurouslighthearteddreamlike

What happens

Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1902 American silent trick film directed by Edwin S. Porter. With ten sequential shots, Jack and the Beanstalk was twice as long as any previous studio film. According to Porter, "It took in the neighborhood of six weeks in the spring of 1902 to successfully make this photograph." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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