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Directed by George Albert Smith Productioncompany G.A. Smith Initial release 1900 Producer George Albert Smith Editor George Albert Smith | 5.2/10 Filmweb Produced by George Albert Smith Release date October 1900 (1900-10) Director George Albert Smith Cinematography George Albert Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Harold SmithDorothy Smith Distributed by Warwick Trading Company Similar Grandma Threading her Needle, The Old Maid's Valentine, Let Me Dream Again, As Seen Through a Telescope, Grandma's Reading Glass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House That Jack Built is a 1900 British short silent drama 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."