I couldn't believe this wasn't on youtube yet! This is the scene where the nannies are going to be interviewed but they get blown away and Mary Poppins arrives :)
Also (I think only in the second version), they have people over when the cannon first goes off and a banker catches a vase. This means that many things could (and have ) broken before
@Lolo the Paragon Maybe the reason they didn't scream, yell, or react from getting blown away because, they changed their minds not wanting the job as a nanny at the banks house after hearing Admiral Boom firing the cannon at 0:57 where they were looking for a reason to be getting away from the Banks house and the wind changing helped them get out of there.
I love it when the other nannies start flying. No screaming, they seem super calm, it's as if they're all going "oh well. Guess I'm flying away now. Bye Bye"
@plazasta They must have changed their minds at the last minute not wanting the job after hearing Admiral Boom fire the cannon and were looking for a reason to get away from the Banks house and the wind changing helped them to leave.
Typical British character. We generally tend to be stoic and reserved even if wind is blowing us into the air. For an American made film, they got the British mannerisms and character pretty accurate.
According to Julie Andrews, the first time they tried filming Mary Poppins entrance, the wire got stuck and she couldn't get down. Passers by heard Mary Poppins screeching and cursing a blue steak that would make sailors blush.
*One of the funniest scenes in Mary Poppins, without a doubt! **1:49** The way that nanny flies away with the music "bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-buuuu" is just hilarious, because of the way it looks and sounds! Gets me every time, it does! 🤣😁👍☮*
+Patrick Blake That's surprising that Jane said that because she and Michael didn't get to meet them yet not knowing if they were what they advertised for or not. At least they got their wish for them to be gone having the wind blow away those nannies especially since they didn't know that their father tore up their advertisement.
@@yooneeque1 That would definitely be a little hard to know because for example, if Mary Poppins was standing in the crowd with those nannies, and if Jane and Michael looked at her it's unknown if they would think of her as the actual nanny they advertised for which she was. Especially because all those nannies were dressed the same way and Mary Poppins was also dressed the same way as them.
Actually, in the advertisement they specify Cheery disposition, rosy cheeks, sweet and pretty. Well they are clearly NOT that ;D. And yes, some of them are men XDXD
How they managed to shot these scenes in 1964 without computer- generated imagery? Just imagine seeing this film in the 60s in black and white television, it must've been a jaw-dropping moment.
Ahahah, and they ALL DIE horribly impaled on some sharp pointy metal fences or falling down after flying many meters above the ground and getting their vertebra crushed violently 😂😂😂😂😂 Mary Poppins is such a cheeky prankster 😂
Mary May not be a a He - but She is in some sense I guess "Cool" in the sense that she's calm collected and in control of every situation - sort of like the Fonz only more Edwardian.
I'm 50 now and watching this just for the few minutes made me feel like a kid again in my pjs after having a bath because I'd been playing outdoors all day, chasing bugs, rolling down grassy hills and running under the hose enjoying the hot day. And now I'm waiting for the Disney movie to come on 😁😊
Why did these kids believe that their dad would run their ad instead of his own? They know that he's a stick in the mud who's forgotten how to have fun.
Really - I thought it was pretty well done - (other than it being wire work and so moving in that supergirl sort of way) but still well composed - especially the nannies being blown away.
The nanny scene always reminds me and my girlfriend of our visit to London on a wet and very windy day. my girlfriend was struggling with her big umbrella which constantly blew inside out and pull both of us along. we both had to hold on to railings in front of a house while trying to keep hold of the umbrella which was getting blown about like crazy. we remember seeing lots of other people struggling in the wind and their umbrellas blown inside out too. LOL
This is one of the only scenes I can clearly remember seeing when I was in the back seat of my parent's car eating a hoagie sandwich wrapped in tin foil at the drive in - in 1964! I was only 4 at the time, but I remember seeing the group of nannies all cloistered together with their umbrellas popping inside out. For years I was obsessed with umbrellas...maybe because they symbolized a vehicle that could lift me up and carry me away from an unhappy place.
@Jared Curry He's probably used to the house vibrating and sees everyone has things covered preventing anything from falling and breaking. Plus, the next time after this scene when Admiral Boom fired the cannon, it caused the Banks piano to slide towards George giving him an interest in wanting to play the piano.
Matthew Garber shouldn’t be dying so young. He was such a cute actor in Mary Poppins. If he didn’t go to India until many years later, he would have still been alive, doing more movies or doing something he loved to do.
He was grown up, but sadly he retired from acting after *The Gnome-Mobile* . He died at 21 years old in '77 from pancreatitis that was caused supposedly from some food poisoning while he was in India. And Dotrice admitted that she regrets not keeping in contact with him before his death.
I was four years old the first time I saw Mary Poppins. I'm now 21 and it's still one of my all time favorite movies to this day. Mary Poppins is practically perfect in every way. 😊
@drf81 That might be possible but, the wind arrow changed from West to East so that means the wind changed on it's own and later in the movie Mary Poppins said that she will stay on the job as the nanny until the wind changes and when the wind changed again from East to West was when Mary Poppins packed her things and left (probably to become someone else's nanny) and then came back when hearing and feeling that adult Michael Banks on "Mary Poppins Returns" needs a nanny for his kids while dealing with the problem of losing the house.
Am I the only one who thinks about The Wizard of Oz when I see this scene? All of the nannies waiting at the Banks' front door get swept away by an unknown wind and here comes this person floating down on an umbrella whom Michael Banks thinks is a witch. One would think that the nannies were swept out by a tornado and taken to the Land of Oz, but tornadoes happen in Nowhere Kansas, not London.
That's not Julie Andrews at the end of this clip. On the DVD commentary, she states that it was her stand-in who flew down. But that is Julie at the end of the movie when she flies off. So, descent = stand-in, ascent = Julie.
On looking at the queue of prospective nannies, I detect one or two are (stunt) men. I’m. Curious how many of the flying nannies were stuntmen. The sheer number of stunt flights on screen all at once is a marvel! Someone else in the comments mentioned trash or litter in the streets. Of course, ALL the nannies are either holding copies of the advertisement, and/or letters of recommendation, and/or newspapers, which, I suspect, is by design and merely for the purpose of embellishing the special effect of the strong gust of wind that blows the nannies away. First we see fallen leaves blowing through the group, then umbrellas inverting, then all manner of nannies and advertisements flying away. It’s a beautifully staged & choreographed, comically built, series of stunt flights! I cannot think of a filmed flying sequence that even comes close to the shear number of actors flying at one time - perhaps the scene in The Wizard of Oz, where the flying monkeys swoop down, pick up Dorothy and, fly away! This sequence is pretty spectacular!
Because at this time there was still a strong class separation where the upper class had maids and butlers and the lower class were service people, with no middle class. If your parents were maids and butlers you became a maid or butler as well, the jump to upper class was impossible. The United States is transitioning into that position right now by eliminating the middle class.
+Michael Guerino Yes that's crazy. Especially since it sounds like everyone inside 17 Cherry Tree Lane has to wake up at a certain time each day and always stay alert to the clock. Perhaps someone on Cherry Tree Lane should tell Admiral Boom that he has to move to a boat harbor where no houses are around and he can make as much loud noises as he wants.
Nice to see two Upstairs Downstairs connections. Karen Dotrice (Jane) played housemaid Lily in Season 5. Hermoine Baddeley (Ellen) is sister to Angela Baddeley who played the cook Mrs Bridges.
2:23 Julie Andrews actually confirmed in an audio commentary for the DVD that that's not actually her making Mary Poppins iconic entrance but her double, Larri Thomas
I actually think that Mary Poppins is a witch. A good witch, obviously. Because she flies in the sky just like bad witches. Witches have to use something when they fly in the sky, which is of course a broom. Marry Poppins also has to use something to, her umbrella. It's not even necessary to say she has magical powers, every knows that. So I guess she's kinda like Glinda from The Wizard Of Oz
