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

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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. The Sherman Brothers were originally just going to use the song "Chim-Chim-Cheree" for all of the music in the rooftop finale. However, the Special Effects Supervisor, Peter Ellenshaw introduced them to the English pub song "Knees Up Mother Brown" so they decided to make their own variation coming up with "Step In Time". 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. 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. 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)

You’ve devoted a large portion of your career to Disney, and I’d love to hear what your work means to you. Many of the nannies stood in the large queue of applicants outside the Banks’ house at the start of the film were actually male actors in drag. The short old lady in the park at in the beginning of Mary Poppins with her two tall daughters is named Mrs. Corry. In the original book, she ran the sweet shop in the park and in the Broadway show they buy the letters to make the word "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from her. Cline’s also a passionate advocate for the preservation of these priceless cultural artifacts and brings genuine joy to what she calls her dream job. We had a chance to chat with her about the tireless but never boring work of an archivist, how her job has changed alongside filmmaking technology, and the movie that ignited her enchantment with all things Disney. Adriana Caselotti was the live-action reference model for the character of Snow White Let’s talk about the nitty-gritty of the work you do, especially considering what a deep archive Disney has. What’s an average day like for you?

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. In the movie, the globe is discovered by grown-up Michael Banks in the cluttered attic of the Banks House,” says Kidney. “John Myhre explained that they placed it in the attic because ‘that’s where Jane and Michael’s childhood went.’ Though it’s only onscreen for a brief moment, the snow globe is instantly familiar to generations of Poppinsfans, and it had to be spot-on.” 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.

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 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.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. 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" There are some differences between the characters in P.L. Travers’ book Mary Poppins and the Walt Disney film. Measuring approximately 6”H this Disney Showcase snow globe is crafted from cold-cast resin and glass and is carefully hand-painted