![]() ![]() Binnacle see the Chimney Sweeps from a distance, confusing them for intruders to which Boom offers Binnacle to load the cannon with dynamites and fireworks to scare them off. After Mary dances, the Chimney Sweeps continue dancing altogether on the rooftops as well as dancing on the top of the chimneys altogether. Observing them, Bert offers Mary to participate with them to which she accepts Bert's offer. As they dance altogether happily, they sing in chorus together and as they continuously dance on the rooftops as Mary, Jane, and Michael watch the Chimney Sweeps dancing throughout the song. The Chimney Sweeps are seen during the part where Mary Poppins, Bert, Jane, and Michael reach the rooftops via bottom of the fireplace to which while exploring, the four encounter various of them popping out together to which upon encountering them, Bert is happy to see his pals where they participate in the film's memorable musical number, "Step in Time". Even though the scene proved to be a challenge, the production crew was able to overcome this challenge of filming this sequence. Despite being filmed once, the challenging sequence had to be filmed twice due to the first footage of the film being scratched leading to poor quality on the footage, in which the sequence had to be filmed again. The sequence was filmed outdoors in Burbank and took about an entire week to finish it during the summertime between August and September with a huge tarpaulin over the actors which helped hold the heat in it while filming the scene. Prior to the filming of the "Step in Time" sequence, most of the rehearsal began on this sequence where the sequence was filmed outside in order to toughen the actors up and get ready for the final version of the film. ![]() The "Step in Time" musical number featuring the Chimney Sweeps in it proved to be the most advanced scene, due to Bert dancing with numerous actors on set. Binnacle use their cannon to launch fireworks confusing them for intruders causing the Chimney Sweeps to scatter around. Although they dance throughout the sequence, they become fearful when Admiral Boom and Mr. They are seen constantly dancing with Bert during the musical number, "Step in Time" where they dance with Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael Banks throughout the sequence. Travers later re-wrote the chapters in a revised edition of the book, in which Poppins and Jane and Michael Banks are transported to a South Sea Island, where the nanny uses the offensive phrase ‘pickaninny’ and speaks in a racially charged southern American dialect.The Chimney Sweeps, as their names imply, are a group of chimney sweeps whom Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael encounter on the rooftops of London. Pollack-Pelzner has also pointed to other instances of archaic, racially-loaded language in Travers’ Poppins books, which in once instance actually saw her books banned from the San Francisco Public Library in the early 80s. In the 1952 novel Mary Poppins in the Park, the nanny herself tells an upset young Michael, ‘I understand that you’re behaving like a Hottentot.’” And it’s not only fools like the Admiral who invoke this language. It’s a parody of black menace it’s even posted on a white nationalist website as evidence of the film’s racial hierarchy. “We’re in on the joke, such as it is: These aren’t really black Africans they’re grinning white dancers in blackface. When the dark figures of the chimney sweeps step in time on a roof, a naval buffoon, Admiral Boom, shouts, ‘We’re being attacked by Hottentots!’ and orders his cannon to be fired at the ‘cheeky devils.’ “The 1964 film replays this racial panic in a farcical key. When he tries to approach the cook, she threatens to quit: ‘If that Hottentot goes into the chimney, I shall go out the door,’ she says, using an archaic slur for black South Africans that recurs on page and screen. “’Don’t touch me, you black heathen,’ a housemaid screams in Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), as a sweep reaches out his darkened hand. ![]()
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