The House That Jack Built (1900 film)

The House That Jack Built
Screenshot from the film
Directed by	George Albert Smith
Produced by	George Albert Smith
Starring	Harold Smith Dorothy Smith
Cinematography	George Albert Smith
Production company	G.A. Smith
Distributed by	Warwick Trading Company
Release date	October 1900 (1900-10)
Running time	54 seconds
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent

The House That Jack Built is a 1900 British short, silent trick film directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a boy who knocks over a house made of bricks built by his sister and then rebuilds it when the original sequence is shown in reverse. "In addition to exploiting a popular cinematic trick," of, "reversing the film in the projector," and, "its audience's presumed knowledge of the technique," the director, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "was continuing his experiments with narrative forms," with the reversed sequence, "interpreted as wish-fulfilment on the part of the girl, hoping that time will literally turn back on itself to allow her house to be rebuilt," he, "demonstrates that while this is impossible in reality, it is easily achievable in cinema."^[1]

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