Mary Poppins — Saturday, August 10
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Movie shown at dusk
Norwichtown Green
Free — Donations welcome
Refreshments available
Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by the Sherman Brothers. It was shot at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
Julie Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mary Poppins and the film also won Oscars for Best Film Editing, Original Music Score, Best Song for “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and Best Visual Effects, and received a total of 13 nominations, an unsurpassed record for any other film released by the Walt Disney Studios.
The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers.
Hopefully the only one on the Green with an umbrella will be Mary Poppins!
Again we thank our sponsors that make our summer films possible.
Alarm Design, Chelsea Groton Bank, Eastern Savings Bank, Iliano’s Grill, Law Offices of P. Michael Lahan, Norwich Department of Public Utilities, Towne Liquor Store, Treat’s Pools & Spas, Brown Jacobson P.C., The Bulletin, Chinigo, Leone & Maruzo, LLP, Norwich Ophthalmology Group, People’s United Bank, Sayet & Seder
