The View-Master packet THREE FAIRY TALES featuring Jack and the Beanstalk (B314).
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Booklet Cover
From the packet cover:
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Climbing to the top of the Magic Beanstalk which had grown above the clouds, Jack found a wicked Giant. When he “smelled the blood of an Englishman” the giant roared, “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
Scene 1
Jack traded the family cow for Magic Beans
From the 16-page booklet:
Once upon a time there lived a poor widow whose son, Jack, did nothing but sit and dream of adventure.
One day his mother said, “Son, food is scarce. We must sell the cow or we will have nothing to eat. Take her to the marketplace. But, mind you, get a good price!”
Halfway to town Jack met a queer-looking stranger who said, “Boy, will you sell me your cow?”
“Yes,” replied Jack. “But I must get a good price.”
“I will give you a good price,” the stranger said, holding out a handful of beans.
“But that is no price!” cried Jack. “Nothing but beans!”
“Ah,” said the man, “but these are magic beans. Plant them tonight and in the morning the beanstalks will reach the sky.”
Scene 2
“See how tall the Magic Beans grew just overnight!”
From the 16-page booklet:
When Jack’s mother learned he had sold the cow for nothing but beans, she was angry. Sending him straight to bed, she threw the beans out the window.
In the morning they found to their astonishment that the beans had taken root. A gigantic beanstalk towered over their cottage and disappeared into the clouds.
“I will climb it,” cried Jack, “and see what lies at its top.”
Scene 3
Jack climbed up to the Land above the Clouds
From the 16-page booklet:
He began to climb. He climbed until the cottage looked like a doll house. Then he climbed until he could see it no more because it was below the clouds.
At last he reached the top of the beanstalk. There, above a bank of fleecy clouds, lay a wonderful land like nothing he had ever seen. Before his eyes lay a path over the clouds, and at the end of the path was a towering castle.
Scene 4
The Giant ordered the Hen to lay and the Harp to play
From the 16-page booklet:
Reaching the castle after a long walk, Jack found that everything in it was enormous. Then when he saw piles of human bones lying about, he knew the castle belonged to a wicked giant. Suddenly he heard a roaring voice: “Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman! Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!”
Jack hid in a closet, trembling, until the giant gave up the search and sat down at a table where he bellowed: “Wife, fetch my dinner and my treasures!”
Peering through a crack in the door, Jack saw the giant devour half an ox, wash it down with a keg of wine, then take out two huge bags of gold.
The giant counted his money, then roared at a little brown hen, “Lay!” The hen laid four golden eggs. Then, to a golden harp, he said, “Play!” And the harp played the sweetest music ever heard.
Scene 5
The Giant chased Jack down the Beanstalk
From the 16-page booklet:
Soon the giant fell asleep and Jack crept out of the closet. Gathering up the giant’s treasures, he ran for the door. But suddenly the golden harp sang out, “Master, master!” The giant awoke with a roar and started after Jack.
Fortunately the giant was too full to run fast, and by the time he reached the beanstalk Jack was already climbing down.
Scene 6
Quickly Jack chopped down the Beanstalk
From the 16-page booklet:
The beanstalk quivered and swayed as the giant started down it. Down Jack went, slipping and sliding in his haste. The instant his feet touched the earth, he seized the ax his frightened mother held out to him and chopped away at the beanstalk.
>In the nick of time he chipped clear through it and the giant fell to the ground with a crash that shook the countryside. He would never eat another human again.
Scene 7
“We have the Giant’s treasure. Our fortune is made.”
From the 16-page booklet:
Jack laid out the giant’s treasure on the table. “Mother,” he said, “our fortune is made. We have two bags of gold, a hen that lays golden eggs, and a harp that will fill our days with music. Now are you sorry I sold the cow for beans?”
4 comments:
I had this one. Wouldn't the giant had to have been way high from the ground for the fall to kill him? But we got to have him in the frame! I never question this when I was a kid.
Good point!
Kind of sad that I was happier when I wasn't thinking that much.
LOL!
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