Precious Moments 193101 Disney Mary Poppins Let's Go Fly a Kite Musical Snow Globe WATERBALL, One Size, Multicolor

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For over 20 years Walt Disney tried to convince P.L. Travers and he finally succeeded in 1961 with Travers asking to keep the rights to script approval. Filming took place between May and September in 1963 with post production and animation taking a further 11 months. The horse that Julie Andrews rides upon while on the carousel in the Jolly Holiday scene is still on display in Orlando, Florida. The carousel horse can be seen by those who are waiting in line at the Chinese Theatre for The Great Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios. This ride has since closed. The book occupies a darker moral universe, one in which an alternative, more definitive ending is alluded to. Poppins is always looking in mirrors because she feels only tenuously connected to the physical world. (One sees why Sylvia Plath liked these books; TS Eliot, too.) What’s more, she has a cousin who is a snake and who, on the night of her birthday, gives her his shed skin and speculates that to eat and be eaten amount to the same thing when we are, “as one, moving to the same end”. It’s an extraordinary piece of paganism for a children’s book, prefiguring the end, when Poppins disappears with a “wild cry”, never to return. You don’t get that in Lassie Come Home. The film inspired the eighth season episode of The Simpsons entitled "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", featuring a parody of Mary Poppins called "Shary Bobbins" who helps out the Simpson family when Marge loses her hair due to stress. It also includes spoof songs, "The Perfect Nanny", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Feed the Birds" and "The Life I Lead". The Sherman Brothers composed the score to the film Mary Poppins but they were also involved in the development of the film and its storyline. They were the ones who suggested that the setting be changed to the Edwardian era from the 1930s when the book was set.

Experience the enchantment of our globe light with mesmerizing color-changing features with music, enhancing your Christmas ornaments and creating a sparkling glitter globe centerpiece. Despite consulting on the entire film, P.L. Travers was not given an invitation to the Mary Poppins premiere on the 27th of August 1964 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. She instead obtained an invitation from an executive at the Walt Disney Company and was still discussing changes that she wished to be made to the film at the after party. Walt Disney famously responded to her comments with, “Pamela, the ship has sailed.” A song about Admiral Boom was written but didn’t appear in the film. You can hear the music composed for it in the score. The character of Bert is actually a mix of several of Mary Poppins' friends from the original books. Among them is the minor character of a chimney sweep. It was a drawing of the sweep by one of the animators that inspired the film’s song "Chim Chim Cheree".During the room tidying scene, there was originally a moment when all of the toys came to life. It proved to be too scary for children so it was cut out of the final script. However, the idea was re-used in the Broadway musical of Mary Poppins. I have tea every week with a friend who collects music boxes. She has some music box snow globes, likes snow globe music boxes especially and was showing me a new one. I remarked that I didn't really care about snow globes but would love to have one that was like the one in 'Mary Poppins' and played the song. With a hat coat carpetbag and umbrella just like her favorite nanny Mary Poppins a young girl is soaring in from the clouds just as a kite might do Plays the tune “Let’s Go Fly A Kite"

Mrs Banks is depicted as a member of Emmeline Pankhurst Votes For Women suffrage movement. She was originally named Cynthia but was then changed to a more English sounding name Winifred. Mary Poppins quotes John Keats' "Endymion" when she says, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever", as she pulls a plant pot out of her carpet bag. This is the same Keats line used by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory made in 1971. The scene where Mr. Dawes, Sr. has trouble with the step in the bank room was not originally in the script. While viewing a make-up test for Van Dyke in the projection room, Walt Disney saw him entertaining the crew between takes with some comic routines. Including the “stepping-down routine” of an old man trying to step off the curb. Walt Disney specifically requested that the Mary Poppins crew members build a six-inch riser on the bank room set so that Van Dyke could do the stepping-down routine. A very large part of our job is the conservation and preservation of assets and making them available. But one of our directives is to help the company keep its history alive and to make sure it’s accurate. We rely on our history so much—when you think about a film like Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, that came out in 1937. That’s a very old film, but because it’s animation and because it’s still so relevant to children today, whether it’s theme park attractions or streaming on Disney+, it’s really important that the history of that film is still available to our filmmakers, to our marketing and press and publicity and publishing people, to the people who make toys, and those who do attractions at the park. A well-indexed collection of our history is really important to Disney, probably more so than anywhere else I can think of. Color still depicting a press release for Walt Disney’s animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Courtesy Disney; Walter Elias, Lillian Bounds

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Matthew Garber, who played Michael Banks, was paid 10 cents for each take in the tea party scene. He was afraid of heights, so a crew member offered to pay him a "bonus" of 10 cents for every take.