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

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And you still haven’t gotten to the work you do with the actual assets you take care of from film and TV productions. 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.

Hilariously feeding the birds at St. Paul's Cathedral became illegal in the 21st Century due to an excessive defecation and an ever expanding avian population. You’ve worked at the Disney archives since the pre-digital age, how has your job changed as filmmaking and computer technology have changed so dramatically? 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. I’ve been with Disney since 1989. I started not too long after college, so I’ve been here for 33 years, and 29 of that in the Walt Disney Archives. So, it’s obviously very important to me, a very big part of my life. I’m very emotionally attached to Disney; I love the company, and I love what I do. I often get questioned by people who say, ‘Oh, you have my dream job.’ And I have to admit that, well, yes, I do. I have my dream job. It’s such an honor and a real blessing in my life to be able to work with the people that I work with. I think probably my favorite part is working with all these extremely talented people and supporting the work that they do. Pre-production of Mary Poppins and song composition took around two years to complete. The Sherman Brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman) came up with the idea of Mrs. Winnifred Banks (Glynis Johns) being involved in the suffragette cause to explain why she should be so neglectful of her children.

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Larri Thomas plays the woman in the carriage who blows a kiss at Bert during the "Chim Chim Cheree" performance. She was also Julie Andrews' stand-in. 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.

The word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was not created for Mary Poppins. A variation was first used in a 1949 song by Gloria Parker and Barney Young. They did sue Disney for plagiarism, but lost after the lawyers showed that a similar word had been used by Helen Herman in the "Syracuse Daily Orange", a college newspaper, on March 10, 1931. Herman wrote: "Several years ago, I concocted an expression which, to me, includes all words in the category of something wonderful...I believe that I am the sole originator of it, or at least, I have my own interpretation of its pronunciation… it implies all that is grand, great, glorious, splendid, superb, wonderful." I’ve always thought that Mary Poppins is David Tomlinson’s movie as much as it is Julie Andrews’. When, as Mr Banks, he gets his hat punched inside out and his bosses destroy his umbrella, he plays the scene with a pathos that, to a child of seven or eight, does terrible violence to the notion of parental infallibility. Tomlinson is the great heart of the movie, the warmth to Andrews’ splinter of ice, who, while sustaining the film’s line in jokey verbosity, still manages to be moving. Julie Andrews had huge success in the West End and Broadway prior to her transition into film and future stardom. In 1963, Julie Andrews began working in the titular role of Mary Poppins. Walt Disney himself had seen her performance on stage in Camelot and subsequently offered her the role. P.L. Travers ended up being an advisor/film consultant on Walt Disney’s version of Mary Poppins. She was allegedly disapproving of all Walt Disney‘s changes to Mary Poppins character as she wished to keep the harsh aspects of Poppin’s personality. She famously didn’t enjoy the music written for the film and she hated the use of animation so much that she would not allow Walt Disney to make any films around her later novels. When a film or television series wraps, tell me about the asset collection process. How are those decisions made on what gets preserved from, say, a Disney+ series like Moon Knight or a film like Jungle Cruise?To re-create that base, Cline hired well-known designer Kevin Kidney in 2007. No stranger to designing for Disney, Kidney has worked on everything from theme park show props to collectible merchandise. “The original snow globe was handmade by one of my art heroes—Disney Legend Rolly Crump,” says Kidney.“The glass portion with the cathedral was on display in the Archives, but the metal base had been missing for nearly 50 years. I was able to re-create it from production stills and screen shots.” The fact that the snow globe made it into the Archives in the first place is a pretty remarkable story itself, as recounted by Disney Legend and Walt Disney Archives founder Dave Smith: “Shortly after I founded the Archives in 1970, I started searching through attics, closets, basements, and storerooms to find any items or files that I felt had historical value and should be in the Archives,” Smith says. “The basement of the Animation Building held a treasure trove, with hundreds of boxes and file cabinets stashed down there and forgotten. Everywhere things could be stored, they were.There were even huge air-conditioning ducts in which boxes had been placed when there was no space for shelving.” Recently some friends of mine who can't get/stay pregnant announced their intention to adopt a second baby. They're not rich but they're great, their son is having so much fun and is so loved. Any baby of theirs will be a rich baby. They are asking for help with the adoption fee costs (huge!) and I want to sell the globe for that. One of Julie Andrews' favorite songs in Mary Poppins was "Stay Awake." When she heard that there were plans to cut it, she wrote a letter of concern to P.L. Travers who instantly insisted that the song remain in the film.