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Umm... "HE" can take it? Cows are female. And on a slightly more serious note, in the days when the original story was written, selling the cow was a really serious matter. If you had a cow (and could afford to feed it), you had not only milk, but also the ingredients to make butter and cheese. Add some potatoes from your own garden and you'd have pretty near a complete meal. Plain food, yes, but you could live for a long time on just dairy and potatoes. Selling the cow meant that you no longer had that source of nutrition. You wouldn't sell your cow except as a desperate last resort.
Aside from all of that, there was an announcement at the D23 Expo over the weekend that "Gigantic" will be the next Disney animated film and it is going to be a takeoff of this ComiColor cartoon by another longtime Disney animator Ub Iwerks from 1933. Can't wait to see it.
Wonderful wonderful presentation and wonderful times, when you and i lived in those times when no one worried about anyone else, and when the people did not care about what colour they had
We where reading this story in class. My teacher was asking what is the point of the story. I said that Jack steals to save his family. My teach told me that I'm not focusing on the story.
I've finally watched the Castle Films 8mm version of the same cartoon that I've got off of eBay. I have not seen the Castle Films logo that rare, you don't see the Castle Films logo anywhere, but this version retains the ComiColor titles intact, but not on the Castle Films 16mm sound version in color. The end title in the Castle Films version has a 1945 copyright at the bottom. Many of the Terrytoons and Christmas shorts from Castle have the same copyright appeared and that was the first I've saw a Castle Films copyrighted end title in an Ub Iwerks' ComiColor cartoon. It was black & white and silent. I will be uploading it on my other channel later.
I ordered an 8mm home movie version of this cartoon on eBay this morning, and it was a Castle Films release, but I hope this film will be arrive in a few days. I will be showing you the home movie version and it was silent and black & white with the Castle Films logo included.
That song was in the original version on this and the Castle Films 16mm sound version of the same name in both color and in black and white. The silent version that I have had no song, but the finale did the same song in the final scene, but they replaced it with the last inter title card that says "No more worries, No more strife, Jack will have plenty, The rest of his life." That closing line was a joke. I still have this version on both 8mm and 16mm and I have seen it many times, and I still don't get it. Stick with the original version or the Castle Films version of "Jack and the Beanstalk", stay away from the silent version, it's not worth it.
nopy99 Not really, if you watch the silent version from Castle Films, the last inter title says "No more worries, no more strife, Jack will have plenty the rest of his life." That ending doesn't make sense at all after watching this cartoon in its silent form.
If you listen carefully at 3:43, this was the song that it would later ended up in many WB cartoons over the years, the music for this short was done by Carl Stalling in which his name was never appeared in the opening credits. The name of the piece was called "He's a Horse's Ass". He did that in "The Ducktators", he also did that in "Porky's Preview", "All This and Rabbit Stew" and of course the opening music for the "Private Snafu" series. Carl Stalling was a true genius.
And at 7:40, the "Funeral March" was later used in another WB cartoon called "Scaredy Cat" with Porky Pig and Sylvester, the music was also done by the same guy, Carl Stalling.
I swear when I was like 7 or 8 years old there was like a porn version of jack and the beanstalk.. It had Jack fucking the giants wife O.o did anyone else ever catch that on the TV or computer?
Yes it was part of a movie called Once Upon A Girl, it had Mother Goose (played by Hal Smith aka Otis from The Andy Griffith Show) on trial for telling "the real versions" of classic fairy tales which were animated porn parodies, others were Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood ( this one doesn't involve Red being fucked by the wolf but rather horny woodsmen).
