The House That Jack Built (1900 film)

1900 British 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 and others

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]

## References

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1. ^ Brooke, Michael. "The House That Jack Built". BFI Screenonline Database. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

## External links

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* The House That Jack Built at IMDb

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Films directed by George Albert Smith

* The Haunted Castle (1897)
* Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer (1897)
* The X-Rays (1897)
* The Miller and the Sweep (1898)
* Photographing a Ghost (1898)
* Santa Claus (1898)
* The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
* As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
* Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
* Grandma Threading her Needle (1900)
* Spiders on a Web (1900)
* The Old Maid's Valentine (1900)
* The House That Jack Built (1900)
* Let Me Dream Again (1900)
* The Inexhaustible Cab (1901)
* The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
* Mary Jane's Mishap (1903)
* The Sick Kitten (1903)
* Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906)
* Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs (1908)
* A Visit to the Seaside (1908)

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