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

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You’ve devoted a large portion of your career to Disney, and I’d love to hear what your work means to you.

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. 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. And you still haven’t gotten to the work you do with the actual assets you take care of from film and TV productions.In Julie Andrews' next film, The Sound of Music released in 1965, she also plays a Nanny who helps the Father of the children she's looking after have a better relationship with them.

There are also only two children featured in the Walt Disney version of the film instead of four. The other two were twins John and Barbara. 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.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.

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?

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Mary Poppins herself was originally written as strict and pompous in the books but Disney made her kind and gentle as well as keen on discipline. 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. The film Mary Poppins was based upon the first novel in P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins series. It was because Walt Disney‘s daughters loved the book so much that their Father promised to make a film based upon it. 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.