On this date in 1952, Jack and the Beanstalk premiered---the famous fairy tale about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. The family film gets amusingly tweaked by the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, the first of only two color movies they made---the other being "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, also in 1952. The film begins in sepia tone and then changes to full color during the rather clever real life to fantasy transition. The seventy-eight-minute film is arguably the duo's best venture of their last decade together, the fable being well-suited for them.
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