What was unique about the film Mary Poppins and animation?

Answer 1

It was the first Disney film that mixed live action, stage magic ( trick Photography with flight, levitation, etc, and Live actors and acting- and also background Cartoons. it was probably the first Disney musical outside of all-cartoon romps which were of the musical type such as Cinderella. The film was also the last personally supervised by Disney, who died in l966. Oddly it was first made as a movie -and later as a play. There are a number of the usual Disneyfied cheap jabs at Religion. a large church is mere background.. not visited. The usual supernatural angles impede any spiritual values, as one might guess. oddly, a nonce verse in the song based on the nonce word of all time- has a line that seems to poke fun at the once-time Cardinal of Chicago, Mundelein. it goes rum did liddle liddle- Mundelein! By the way, the prelate"s name can be translated to mean- Small World. (Small World- more properly It's a Small World , was a theme song written by the Disney organization as a promotional stunt for Pepsi-Cola and Unicef and was not used in Poppins or any other Disney film- may have been used for background on Mickey Mouse Club, etc.