The cartoon’s director was Burt Gillett, one of the studio's main Mickey Mouse directors at this time. Much of the animation of the famous mouse was handled by two of the studio's Mickey Mouse experts, Les Clark and Fred Moore. Mickey's escape from this cell, his chase by the giant and the flight down the beanstalk wind up in this very entertaining subject."Ī review in the Motion Picture Daily, stated "Here Walt Disney makes Jack and the Beanstalk live again in the person of his versatile Mickey Mouse."Ī working title for this short was Mickey and the Giant. Especially amusing are Mickey's antics in the giant's mouth where he is pelted by peas, nearly drowned by water, almost crushed in mastication.
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"Fertile in invention and full of amusing situations, Mickey's adventures with a giant after climbing Jack's famous Beanstalk is an ace addition to the series. The following is a review of this cartoon in The Film Daily. Since this was a short film (meaning there is only so much time to tell the story), this makes room for more action and gags. Since anyone watching this cartoon already knew the story, the filmmakers could jump directly into the action with no trouble. After the opening where Mickey is reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to his nephews (their first animated appearance, though they had appeared in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip a year earlier), the cartoon immediately cuts to Mickey (as Jack) climbing the beanstalk.
The film wastes no time with the story before the beanstalk grew.
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This cartoon understands how completely familiar this story was to movie audiences. Kaufman and David Gerstein state, " Giantland was the most extravagant yet." In their book, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. It is worth noting that at the tine this was a big adventure for the mouse, who had begun to move away from the simple barnyard settings and gags he was first known for into more adventurous stories. Giantland was a much smaller scale telling than the mouse's return to the story, but it has more than enough fast paced gags to be an excellent cartoon in its own right. He would return to Jack and the Beanstalk in a segment of the feature film Fun and Fancy Free (1947). Giantland was Mickey Mouse's first foray into the famous fairy tale. The reason for this is very understandable, it is a simple story that nearly everyone was already familiar with and one that offered a never ending supply of gag possibilities. The Jack and the Beanstalk story was popular among makers of classic cartoons.