Jack and the Beanstalk In Modern English (Translated)

Jack and the Beanstalk

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Traditional English tale of Jack and the Beanstalk , best known through the retelling by Joseph Jacobs. Jack the Giant Killer.

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Traditional English tale of Jack the Giant Killer. Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Robert Southey.

Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault. Cinderella by Charles Perrault. From the Silly Symphony series. The only such short in the series to be remade in colour.

Loosely inspired by the traditional English tale of Jack and the Beanstalk , best known through the retelling by Joseph Jacobs. The Grasshopper and the Ants. The Ant and the Grasshopper by Aesop. The Big Bad Wolf. Traditional story of The Little Red Hen. First screen appearance of Donald Duck. Duck character is not in the original fairy tale.

The Tortoise and the Hare. The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop. From the Silly Symphonies series. Colour remake of the short. Traditional story of Chicken Little. Dumb Bell of the Yukon. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film, it became the most successful film in motion-picture history up until that point. Walt Disney's comeback feature after a series of financial difficulties following the Second World War.

Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault. The last fairy tale film produced by Walt Disney, it is one of only two Disney animated films produced in a special 70mm widescreen process, the other being The Black Cauldron.

Joseph Jacobs

The film features heavily stylised art direction and music adapted from the Tchaikovsky ballet score. The first Disney animated fairy tale in thirty years, the critical and commercial success of The Little Mermaid resulted in a popular renewed interest in Disney animation. The story had been considered by Walt Disney as a potential segment for a planned film based on the life and works of Hans Christian Andersen. Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Elements from Aladdin from the Arabian Nights.

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Though largely a theatrical spin-off of the television series DuckTales , the film owes a lot of its plot to the story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp , which would be produced as a feature film by Disney two years later. Beauty and the Beast.

As with The Little Mermaid , it is said that the story had been considered for film treatment during Walt Disney's lifetime. Aladdin from the Arabian Nights and Antoine Galland 's interpretation. An even more resounding commercial success than its predecessors, the film also takes cues from such adventure films as The Thief of Baghdad and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much; but as he was on the way, he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. Jack stopped to look at them, and the butcher told the boy that they were of great value, and persuaded him to sell the cow for them. He was very sorry; but, he said, he might as well make the best of it, so he put the seed-beans into the ground close by the side of the steep hill under shelter of which their cottage was built, and went to bed. The next morning when he got up, he found that the beans had grown, till the bean stalks reached right over the top of the hill, and were lost to his sight.

Jack instantly began to climb, and went up and up on the ladder-like bean till every thing he had left behind him, the cottage, the village, and even the tall church tower, looked quite little, and still he did not see the top of the bean stalk. Jack felt a little tired, and thought for a moment that he would go back again; but he was a very persevering boy, and he knew that the way to succeed in anything is not to give up. So after resting for a moment he went on, and at last reached the top of the bean, and found himself in a beautiful country, finely wooded; and not far from the place where he had got off the bean-stalk stood a fine and strong castle.

Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land. While Jack was standing looking at the castle, a very strange-looking woman came out of the wood and advanced towards him. A wicked giant killed your father, and took it from your mother; try and win it back from the monster who now has it. He was much surprised; however, he walked up to the castle door and knocked, and an old giantess came out.

She did not wait till he spoke, but pulled him in at once, for she thought he would make a nice supper for her when her husband was asleep. As soon as the Ogre came in, he cried in a terrible voice. You only smell a crow that is flying over the chimney.

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Jack could see quite plainly through a little hole which he had bored in the door. Then the Ogre, being drowsy, shut his eyes, and soon snored very loudly. His mother was glad to see him again, and much surprised at seeing the hen, which laid them three gold eggs every day. The old woman did not know him again, and dragged him in as she had done before to eat him by-and-by; but once more she heard her husband coming and hid him in the press, not thinking that it was the same boy who had stolen the hen. We cannot spare him for your dinner.

Then the giant sat down, and when he had eaten half an ox, he told his wife to bring his money-bags to him. She instantly went and fetched two large bags full of gold; and then left him to go about her usual house-work. The Ogre counted out the gold twice over, and then put it into the bags and tied them up. In a few minutes Jack heard him snore. Afraid of losing her supper, the Ogress at once shut Jack in the press; and she had hardly hidden him when the giant came in, saying as usual,. The Ogress went and brought a golden harp to him, set it on the table, and went away.

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