Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a 1972 American musical fantasy film written, composed, shot, edited and directed by Richard Winer to frame Barry Mahon's Childhood Productions films for a Christmas r
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Jack and the Beanstalk
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"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale with ancient origins. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of J
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
…up a majority of the film itself). They are Mahon's previously filmed 1970 adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina or Benjamin Tabart's Jack and the Beanstalk. A few days before Christmas, in Santa's workshop at the North Pole, Santa's elves lament (via song) about how they make toys while Santa is away…
Mildred Lyon's illustration in Charles H. Sylvester's Journeys through Bookland (1922)
1854 illustration of Jack climbing the beanstalk by George Cruikshank
In Walter Crane's woodcut the harp reaches out to cling to the vine
Jack running from the giant in the Red Fairy Book (1890) by Andrew Lang