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Admiral's House is believed to have been an inspiration for P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins books. [15] Travers' character Admiral Boom likes to fire cannons, as did Admiral Barton, who at the time was believed to have lived at the house. [5] [6] Scenes from the 1964 Mary Poppins film adaptation were filmed at Admiral's House.
The scene in which Mary Poppins and Bert interact with a group of animated penguins is noted for its use of the sodium vapor process. Rather than using the more common bluescreen process to insert the actors into the animated footage, the actors were filmed against a white screen lit with sodium vapor lights, which have a yellow hue.
Scenes from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," "The Wizard of Oz," "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins." Illustration: Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images
It was for the last scene, which took place on an airport runway. [5] By the end of the decade, the time of hand-painted matte paintings was drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 some traditional paintings were still being made, notably Chris Evans’ painting of the RMS Carpathia rescue ship in James Cameron’s Titanic. [6]
"Mary Poppins," before she was a Disney franchise, had been a series of very popular children's books by P.L. Travers. Kids had been reading about her since 1934.
Mary Poppins was made into a film based on the first four books in the series by Walt Disney Productions in 1964. According to the 40th anniversary DVD release of the film in 2004, Walt Disney first attempted to purchase the film rights to Mary Poppins from P. L. Travers as early as 1938, but was rebuffed because Travers did not believe a film version of her books would do justice to her ...
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Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a book by Julian Fellowes.