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

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When the Founder and Chief Archivist at the Walt Disney Archives, Dave Smith, went on a search for the Snow Globe from this Mary Poppins, which includes birds flying around St Paul's Cathedral, he found it on a shelf in a janitor's office. The janitor explained that he saw the Snow Globe sitting ready to be thrown away, but liked it so much he kept it for himself. 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 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".

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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. The film was released on the 27th of August 1964 and had both critical and commercial success. At the time of its release it was Disney’s highest grossing film ever and was the highest grossing film of 1964. It had a total of 13 Academy award nominations including Best Picture which was a record for any film released by the Walt Disney Studios at that time. 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

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. Disney is one of the most recognizable companies and brands in the world, with a long, rich history. How do you help not only preserve that history but share it with the world? 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. Enough of this complexity made it into the movie, however, to preserve its original flavour and even, perhaps, to deepen it. I have a theory that the Bird Woman is Poppins’s alter ego: despised and destitute, the mad old bat whom women like PL Travers were expected to become – invisible, husbandless and in need of a chin wax. She is the crone in the snow globe whom Poppins compels us to see.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. When filming The Princess Diaries in 2001, Julie Andrews discovered that Director Garry Marshall was living in the same house that she did when she was making Mary Poppins. Some of The Princess Diaries was also filmed on the same soundstage as Mary Poppins. Andrews knew this to be true because there is a plaque on the soundstage commemorating Poppins. 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.

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. Uncle Albert played by Ed Wynn was originally written in the script as having a Viennese accent. Ed Wynn, however did not attempt the accent. He kept his own while ad-libbing many of the lines and laughing on the ceiling.

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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 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". Disney rented a house for Andrews and her family in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles during the production. Andrews referred to the production of Mary Poppins as unrelenting and physically exerting but said that it was the best introduction she could’ve had to the film industry. The author had some cause for complaint. The first Poppins book was written in 1934, but was set 20 years earlier, in Edwardian England, and its central character, like the woman who created her, was difficult to the point of obnoxious. PL Travers described Mary Poppins as a woman who “never wastes time being nice”. She was sharp, short-tempered and a bit of a tyrant, a childcare professional with no references who did not, as in the Disney version, materialize by gliding serenely down onto the doorstep, but was hurled against the gate by the wind. One day, a valuable item popped up in an unexpected place. While speaking with head janitor Roy Geysor in his office, something on a shelf caught Smith’s attention: the original snow globe from “Mary Poppins.” It was a little battered from neglect and missing its metal base, but the globe portion with the model of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral inside remained intact. “I asked Roy if he knew what it was, and he said no, that he had just found it in the trash one day and thought it looked cute,” Smith says. “Mary Poppins” (1964)P.L. Travers demanded any suggestion of a romantic connection between Mary Poppins and Burt be scrapped as their relationship was purely a platonic friendship. 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. In Walt Disney World, in the lost and found in Frontierland, there is a wooden leg with the word "Smith" written on it. This is a reference to the Mary Poppins Tea Party joke about "a man with a wooden leg named Smith" which is repeated by several characters. David Tomlinson was allegedly nervous about not being good enough for the part of Mr. George Banks, as he had never sung professionally before.