This Oscar-nominated cartoon transposes the popular fairy-tale of "Jack And The Beanstalk", much dealt-with by the cinema, to a modern black setting. The result is a likable take on a familiar premise – with the simple titular figure apparently the 'star' of a whole series of "Puppetoon" shorts – yet the underlying realism seems to clash with the inherent fantasy at the core of the narrative! If anything, the proverbial bean-seller (himself unaware of their magical quality, he only intends scamming the protagonist!) – flanked by a talking, and similarly roguish, crow – is amusingly rendered in caricatured (i.e. slang- speaking) terms
while the singing girl-turned-harp of the original yarn here becomes the ideal vessel through whom the latest 'swing' favorite can be presented to the general public!