As a young child from a disturbed family back in the 60's, Mary Poppins gave me HOPE. She been like a best friend. Thank you for this look behind the curtains.
Similar upbringing here. My favorite childhood memories include hanging out with my little brother and watching Mary Poppins and The Wizard of Oz together at my grandparents home. We’d snack on fresh fruit from the backyard and gummy worms.
I was in London recently and it was a cool, windy, early Spring day and the branches were blowing slightly in the wind and I was looking out the hotel window at the chimneys on the buildings and I truly wondered if Mary Poppins was going to go floating by…
@@garycarpenter2980 I loved Mary Poppins and loved the music from all the movies. I'm 61 and still remember every word of Cruella De Ville. But when I hear anything from the Music Man soundtrack, I am transported to marching around the living room with my dad holding his trombone.
It holds so many memories associated with Mary Poppins, both as a child and as a professional nanny. I used to sing the lullaby from the movie to my young charges. Also, Julie Andrews?! What a legend!
Pamela Travers was born in a regional Queensland city - Maryborough. Maryborough is Mary Poppins town, We have an annual Mary Poppins festival, a museum, statue, memorabilia, and even the traffic lights feature Mary Poppins. It would have been nice if the documentary made reference to this. We're keeping the dream alive x
This lady is such an inspiration. Just because you had a rough start in life doesn't mean you can't achieve something amazing that will go down in history! And you never know when it will happen.
1965 While sitting in 1st grade my dad showed up and told my teacher that I had to go to the Dentist. Oh bummer. Dad ended up surprising me and takeing me to see The Best movie ever MARRY POPPINS
The visual inserts in this program - clock face, old-fashioned kitchen items, door handle etc - many shown from child's-eye level - add terrific atmospheric depth.
Whilst the movie was grand & full of excitement, the books have always in all ways been epic magic pulled not only from her enchanting words but from your ability to visualize the scenes in your own imagination thoughts . Her words were the vessel to sail off into your personal dream space.
true the pain felt by the little mermaid (in the book) when she has to walk on human legs (like walking on sharp knives !) was the pain felt by hans christian andersen, he had a disease that affected his legs originally he wanted to be a ballet dancer, not a writer bad news for him, good news for the rest of us (that he was a writer)
Mary Poppins never scared me because I had already read unabridged fairytales. Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm are really dark. And there was also Alice in Wonderland.
I had never realized how dark ALICE IN WONDERLAND was until I saw the movie in my 50s..... and I had read the original book (of my mother's) several times.
This is a brilliant video, one of the best on utube. Informational and the camera work excellent. People have often called me Mary Poppins which I never understood why. This helped me realize why. Though American I was educated in Ireland and have Irish bloodlines from my grandmother; she came here a journey alone at age 15 during the Potato Famine. Thank you
@Complexsax I agree. She negotiated a percentage, up front payment, and creative control. Not many women of that era negotiated and received such an offer.
She didn't want the movie to be a cartoon and she misunderstood that and I'm glad that it's part animated,a toon person can do anything a real person can't
I remember my Dad telling us we were going to Grohmans Chinese Theater to see Mary Poppins. We got there , was so excited and tickets were sold out. We went again the following weekend and my life was changed after watching Mary Poppins. Ioved all the fantasy of the film. I had to have a Mary Poppins doll, a Mary Poppins tapestry bag and umbrella. I played make believe forever with my school friend. It was magical. My father bought the soundtrack and we acted out every song . A few years sgo i went out to eat Easter meal. Guess who dat across from me with her family.....Julie Andrews!! I was thrilled😁. My Mary Poppins❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
When I was young, prior to the movie, my mother would read me the stories from the book she had as a child. It was a tan hardcover cloth book of the first two books, Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Returns. I still have that book, as well as Mary Poppins Opens The Door & Mary Poppins In the Park, and they are truly precious to me. When she heard rumors about Disney making the movie, we bought a few shares in Disney stock just for fun. When I visited London, a decade or so ago, Mary Poppins was playing on stage. My ex and I went, and I bought my mother a parrot umbrella, as she said that she always wanted one. She was elated when I gave it to her. Unfortunately, she passed a few years later, having never been able to use it. At her funeral, I leaned the umbrella against her coffin at the gravesite service. A breeze came up and knocked it over, breaking the beak. I've always felt that nobody should have used that umbrella, since she never did. I smiled, picked up the two pieces and have it in the original box as a memory. She never got to see Saving Mr. Banks.
Her life story shows us how important social heritage is. Our upbringing and environment shapes us! We parent our children the way we were taught by our parents, (if we don't actively learn to do it differently)!
Thank You for this wonderful back story to a wonderful movie. I saw it as a child when it first came out. Then shared it my child and grandchildren. We all enjoy it.
I think the biographer was wrong when she stated that the young readers would not necessarily pick up on the "cosmic" nature of Mary Poppins. I did and it was rather creepy. The movie is rather creepy. Like the force behind the character could turn evil or silent or vengeful at any moment. I liked the book and the movie, but it always had a dark side to it for me, even as a child.
You're right. How about the tiny little woman Mrs. Corrie, who spoke so crossly to her two giant daughters Annie and Fannie? Mrs. Corrie broke off her fingers to give to the children to eat - barley-sugar or peppermint treats. She was so ancient she hung the stars in the sky.
I've always had a love-hate relationship with Mary Poppins. On the one hand, it was a huge influence on my childhood and the lighthearted scenes brought me great joy, on the other hand, however, there were scenes that deeply creeped me out and still do to this day. When I watch the movie I still skip over all of the bank scenes for example.
The original movie was so wonderful. Mary Poppins is the original strong female character. So many childhood memories. Saving Mr Banks made me cry. It's all an incredible story.
oh I didn t know that quote, thank you so much , it explains a lot same goes for walt disney, as he explains in "saving mr banks" his most autobiographical movie "so dear to my heart" is very similar to walt's childhood only the movie has a happy ending and little jeremiah played by bobby driscoll could keep his pet while walt disney, even at age 60, would still hear the distressed cry of his childhood pet in dreams
@@ginauccelatore3002 The Killing Joke is a DC comic, just so you know. And most of Saving Mr Banks is compilations of smaller moments of the Travers/Disney fiasco into narratively coherent scenes, they're effectively true, but they never actually happened.
I agree that PL Travers probably thought it, but Bert didn't take Mary Poppins' place in saving Mr. Banks. She set the whole climax of the movie in motion purposefully; no competent nanny would think that two energetic children in a bank all day would be anything but a disaster. Bert IS the one who has the literal moment with Banks, but Banks also strikes me as the kind of character that would not take advice from a woman as easily. Bert is a very enthusiastic pawn in the game Mary is playing, he's acting on her behalf. Even if he isn't, that moment doesn't happen without Mary conning Banks into taking the children to work with him.
Being a fan of Disney's version since age 3 when already in my teens, I found two of the original books on flea markets. I read them aloud to my mom. And I couldn't help but wonder about some unexpected ... eastern philosophic moments in the books. Now I know why. Amazing documentary
I totally know what she meant about not inventing Mary. I write a little and feel like a character just wants to tell their story. You become a conduit. Characters will tell you what they want.
I think she wanted a better family than what she had and she i guess wanted a family of her own but it backfired when she adopted and didn't know how to take care of a child but that doesn't mean she was a great writer.Take Agatha Christie,she didn't know what marriage was and she was a great writer
@@garycarpenter2980 As much as I loved this program and everything to do with Mary Poppins it was/is a stab in my heart learning that she separated a pair of twins. If she hadn't come along they may have been separated anyway and it was their family who allowed it to happen. But after watching programs about twin studies and the results from separating them it hits my soul differently. It's impossible to tell from this program, but it seems to have effected her son's twin more than it did him.
There are few writings that don't come from some "other place." Even when I wrote as a reporter, once I garnered the details and the quotes from the subjects, the stories wrote themselves. It's when you try to put yourself into it is when writers block occurs.
this was an extremely fascinating story behind a classic childhood movie of mine! I really appreciate the twists and turns emotionally the author went through. I think we can all relate to that need to reach out for help. great upload thank you!
BEST FILM EVER!!! I've not read the books, but do plan to... Such a beautiful documentary about the troubled author - just look what came out of her painful childhood experiences. So much magic, reassurance and safety for children everywhere.
I never knew about her . I loved the movie Mary Poppins . I'm glad they didn't give up and she allowed them to finish the movie . Pamela Trevors and Walt Disney brought a lot of joy into a lot of children's lives . Thanks for sharing this video with us .
As an amateur writer, i know the feeling of "discovering" a story. Its almost magical how it shows up. Like you are an explorer. I'd like to think that it is pure imagination. Its can sometimes be fleeting, but i feel like the best stories come from "discovered" stories. (Just my 2 cents) :)
‘Saving Mr Banks’ is a beautiful movie, and will take you from laughter to tears. (They didn’t get Walt’s accent quite right-he has no hint of a southern drawl 😆-but doesn’t hurt the beauty of the film.) P L Travers’ story is fascinating.
I am believing her personality of disconnecting from people was greatly influenced by her childhood. She centered her life around herself by withdrawing into her world of "Mary Poppins.". I think the mere fact that her dad died while she still was in her childhood years, plus her mother distant herself from her life as well, created a dependence on herself to resolve any or whatever life threw at her. Due to these 2 factors... aided her uneasiness to how she was so disappointed how the writing of the movie concerning the main character was dismissed in Mary Poppins not given the gracious credit within the story in solving the differences between the dad and children. For being that Mary Poppins was her character, she should have been given that task to offer the solution to the children.
Well, then, in indignation and internal consistency Ms. "Travers" should have returned every Disney check in concert with her protests and dislike. She did do that, right? Surely she wouldn't sink so low as to accept millions for prostituting her creation. Or did she suddenly have a change of mind whenever the checks arrived just as she did on a whim with the color red?
Christopher Robin (I've read the books) dressed as a girl..well, WAS dressed as one (interesting..a major plot point of Song of the Southn's live poirtion is Johnny the little boy detesting those clothes after being laughed at..he takes off his own lace collar..
Nah. I read A.A. Milne almost as soon as I could read. I loved them and the Disney versions. Pooh, Piglet, Eyore, and the rest of the gang come to life.
Beautiful. Thank you. The power of this video builds as I watch it in entirety - when I began watching, I had no idea of the depth to come. A nice view.
What a wonderful accounting of her life and the back story of such a beloved character. I enjoyed this very much and I am determined to buy the books for my grandchildren.
P.L. Travers certainly was a difficult and complicated person. I can tell that Camilus will never forget the lie his mother told. I can see myself telling stories based on how I wished things were as opposed to the way things are. I think that's a very human thing to do.
Never had a clue as to who wrote these books, never thought about it. I'm very glad this video popped up in my feed. What an incredibly interesting story her life was! So much sadness, so much strength breaking through the neuroses. If I'd been asked to guess or fantasize the author of Mary Poppins books she would be nothing like Pamela Travers. Thank you for posting this video! 👍
I knew there was something amazing in Mary Poppins. We had a neighbor who had 10 children. He and his children and us neighbor kids would dance to the music and reenact the different parts. Also read all the books.
Many writers would tell you they're just taking dictation, or that the idea jumped on them from outside themselves, or that they just watch the story and write down what they see. It's not an unusual phenomenon. Creativity has been thought of as a gift rather than an inborn thing for millenia. Travers was in a long tradition.
Just looked back at the video. I mentioned writers that way because the video seemed to imply there was something odd or unusual about the way Travers said she wrote. There's isn't, thus my comment.
Mary Poppins is the first movie my mother took me to see when I was in fourth grade. I loved it and still do. Mom also bought me a Mary Poppins doll and a record of songs in the movie. Loved both movies. Loved Emma as Pamela and Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins.🌂 What a wonderful documentary of the author. I am 67 now and I did not know they were books and I may see if I can find some of them they would be a great read!
I wonder if her actions during the creation of the film was more from a deep desire to not give up her creation. maybe she was oping she would be ridiculous enough, Disney would drop the project. Authors are deeply attached to their work.some may difficulty letting go.
Sounds like a very sad, sad little girl who was totally neglected so she invented Mary Poppins, poor chipmunk. I thought Poppins came from a happy soul not a tortured one. Disaster.
She also hated the movie and forbid any other movies from being made while she was alive, and she didn't care for how the movie focused on the soft side of Mary Poppins(as she preferred the sterner side).
Never saw the movie or read the books, but this was still very interesting! I feel oddly comforted by a character I don't even know. Very inspiring and intriguing.
I first saw this movie in elementary school my teacher brought the movie because it was a half day I saw it and loved it I loved the songs loved the characters it was amazing
What is it about the loss of a father when you are 7 years old? P.l. response was much like my own. It is one thing I and my husband shared, and the effects, though so much else about our individual lives was so disparate, that have united us in a very visceral way.
Camillus died from the effects of alcoholism in 2011. When he starts to cry and asks for a drink I want to say to him, Can you actually feel what you are feeling rather than try to drink it away?
inkyguy, some pain cannot be experienced twice and more cannot be experienced over and over. Even the hardest rock fractures under the tiny, unrelenting drip of a rivulet.
Bear U, it can be expressed and it can be grieved. There are ways to really heal. In fact, we know now that even the most extreme trauma can be treated by retelling it in the right setting again and again. Alcohol and drugs deaden pain; they don't remove it or heal it. They just leave you that much less equipped to deal with it, as well as life.
After seeing the movie at 7, I just couldn’t understand why I couldn’t just snap my fingers and have my room clean itself.🤔 To this day, I wish I could do that. Maybe if I sang “Just a Spoonful of Sugar” in key, it might work 👌🤞
If your wondering where the author was born she was born in Australian QLD Maryborough. And if you drive around the town you can see a museum of where she was born and its also a museum about Mary Poppins.
@Gary Carpenter Lol, Maryborough is probably two and half thousand klicks from Melbourne, anyway where is that flying umbrella when you need it? the one that flies right over c**vd border crossing checks and all...
I live just along the road from Maryborough, in addition to everything else there - the pedestrian crossings, instead of having the silhouette of a person standing on a red background for STOP and a silhouette of a person walking, on a green background for GO, the silhouettes feature the unmistakable shape of Mary Poppins complete with hat, umbrella and carpet bag. Standing/STOP and Walking/GO 😂.
Since the movie, more accurate that a lot is to be revealed about her. She's very far from unknown & a lot of her backstory came out w/the interest generated by the movie. Fascinating documentary, but let's face it: It's piggybacking on the film. Emma Thompson looks GREAT here.
This may have been made as a complimentary piece to the movie. Definitely not piggy backing on it since much of the filming was done before the movie came out. Camillus passed away in 2011 and the movie came out 2 years later.
Forced perspective is an old filmmaker's trick. I love to see non-computer-generated effects in cinema, like what is used in live theater and old films.
I was amazed at the positions my mouth was in as I watched enraptured! What a beautiful story and a great video. Best wishes through the next few weeks.
Artists are mercurial and P. L. Travers seems to have been the epitome of this. Her turbulent childhood had a deep-seated impact on her. The most troubled authors are some of the most talented. It's unfortunate that she chose only one of the twins. I think twins have a special bond, so separating them was truly sad. The Poppins character was probably meant to save her father, but he was already gone. It enabled her to be the writer she wanted to be and be ensconsed in the literary circles she craved. I hope in the end she found some solace in having achieved a memorable place in literary history. 😢
As a child, I saw the Disney film twice at the theater. Reading the book a few years later, I was struck even then,with how dark and bizarre the story actually was. Many many more years later, I watched the film about the author,and the making of the Disney version. A decent, and questionably accurate version of events.
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As a young child from a disturbed family back in the 60's, Mary Poppins gave me HOPE.
She been like a best friend.
Thank you for this look behind the curtains.
Similar upbringing here. My favorite childhood memories include hanging out with my little brother and watching Mary Poppins and The Wizard of Oz together at my grandparents home. We’d snack on fresh fruit from the backyard and gummy worms.
Same! She was so important to me, I even had dreams about her.
You must have had a very disturbing childhood.
"hold fast"! (1Thess.5 :21, the Bible)
I was in London recently and it was a cool, windy, early Spring day and the branches were blowing slightly in the wind and I was looking out the hotel window at the chimneys on the buildings and I truly wondered if Mary Poppins was going to go floating by…
I can not put in words what it means to me. I am Brazilian, 31 years old and I still cry of joy when I listen to those songs...
When I hear the song(Over There)in the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy(G M Cohan's Story)I cry for some reason and not to the other songs
@@garycarpenter2980 I loved Mary Poppins and loved the music from all the movies. I'm 61 and still remember every word of Cruella De Ville. But when I hear anything from the Music Man soundtrack, I am transported to marching around the living room with my dad holding his trombone.
It holds so many memories associated with Mary Poppins, both as a child and as a professional nanny. I used to sing the lullaby from the movie to my young charges. Also, Julie Andrews?! What a legend!
@garycarpenter2980 I love Yankee Doodle Dandy and James Cagney. We share a birthday, so he's a favorite 🙂. You take care 🙂
In my 60’s loved this movie! Especially the songs ❤
Pamela Travers was born in a regional Queensland city - Maryborough.
Maryborough is Mary Poppins town, We have an annual Mary Poppins festival, a museum, statue, memorabilia, and even the traffic lights feature Mary Poppins.
It would have been nice if the documentary made reference to this. We're keeping the dream alive x
That's great! I have never heard of the town. It sounds like a great place to visit during the festival.
Beautiful old town had family there would visit from Gympie in the 1970s
I would like to visit there
This lady is such an inspiration. Just because you had a rough start in life doesn't mean you can't achieve something amazing that will go down in history! And you never know when it will happen.
1965 While sitting in 1st grade my dad showed up and told my teacher that I had to go to the Dentist. Oh bummer. Dad ended up surprising me and takeing me to see The Best movie ever MARRY POPPINS
dreas mom What wonderful memory of paternal love and indulgence. Many more blessings friend.
What a wonderful memory your Dad made for you. He sounds wonderful.
cincerella better
dreas mom n
i agree that it is the best movie ever
The visual inserts in this program - clock face, old-fashioned kitchen items, door handle etc - many shown from child's-eye level - add terrific atmospheric depth.
Whilst the movie was grand & full of excitement, the books have always in all ways been epic magic pulled not only from her enchanting words but from your ability to visualize the scenes in your own imagination thoughts . Her words were the vessel to sail off into your personal dream space.
Some of the most wonderful stories are born out of tragedy.
I wonder, if not for tragedy would music exist...
There is truth in that across the mediums. Some of the saddest pieces of music I've heard are also some of the most beautiful.
truth
true
the pain felt by the little mermaid (in the book) when she has to walk on human legs (like walking on sharp knives !) was the pain felt by hans christian andersen, he had a disease that affected his legs
originally he wanted to be a ballet dancer, not a writer
bad news for him, good news for the rest of us (that he was a writer)
@@ginauccelatore3002 I didnt know that this pain would have to supposed to Andersens foot pain.Very interesting.Thanks for sharing.
Mary Poppins never scared me because I had already read unabridged fairytales. Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm are really dark. And there was also Alice in Wonderland.
I had never realized how dark ALICE IN WONDERLAND was until I saw the movie in my 50s..... and I had read the original book (of my mother's) several times.
This is a brilliant video, one of the best on utube. Informational and the camera work excellent. People have often called me Mary Poppins which I never understood why. This helped me realize why. Though American I was educated in Ireland and have Irish bloodlines from my grandmother; she came here a journey alone at age 15 during the Potato Famine. Thank you
Your grandmother was 15 in the 1850's, approximately 160 years ago? Are you over 100 years old? Was it perhaps a great grandmother?
Being called Mary Poppins sounds like a compliment. Cheers
I think this woman was far more intelligent, savvy and business wise than this documentary is willing to show.
@Complexsax I agree. She negotiated a percentage, up front payment, and creative control. Not many women of that era negotiated and received such an offer.
A touching, beautiful film about a misunderstood author who fought for her vision of her own work.
She didn't want the movie to be a cartoon and she misunderstood that and I'm glad that it's part animated,a toon person can do anything a real person can't
I remember my Dad telling us we were going to Grohmans Chinese Theater to see Mary Poppins. We got there , was so excited and tickets were sold out. We went again the following weekend and my life was changed after watching Mary Poppins. Ioved all the fantasy of the film. I had to have a Mary Poppins doll, a Mary Poppins tapestry bag and umbrella. I played make believe forever with my school friend. It was magical. My father bought the soundtrack and we acted out every song . A few years sgo i went out to eat Easter meal. Guess who dat across from me with her family.....Julie Andrews!! I was thrilled😁. My Mary Poppins❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
When I was young, prior to the movie, my mother would read me the stories from the book she had as a child. It was a tan hardcover cloth book of the first two books, Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Returns. I still have that book, as well as Mary Poppins Opens The Door & Mary Poppins In the Park, and they are truly precious to me. When she heard rumors about Disney making the movie, we bought a few shares in Disney stock just for fun. When I visited London, a decade or so ago, Mary Poppins was playing on stage. My ex and I went, and I bought my mother a parrot umbrella, as she said that she always wanted one. She was elated when I gave it to her. Unfortunately, she passed a few years later, having never been able to use it. At her funeral, I leaned the umbrella against her coffin at the gravesite service. A breeze came up and knocked it over, breaking the beak. I've always felt that nobody should have used that umbrella, since she never did. I smiled, picked up the two pieces and have it in the original box as a memory. She never got to see Saving Mr. Banks.
Her life story shows us how important social heritage is. Our upbringing and environment shapes us! We parent our children the way we were taught by our parents, (if we don't actively learn to do it differently)!
Thank You for this wonderful back story to a wonderful movie. I saw it as a child when it first came out. Then shared it my child and grandchildren. We all enjoy it.
I think the biographer was wrong when she stated that the young readers would not necessarily pick up on the "cosmic" nature of Mary Poppins. I did and it was rather creepy. The movie is rather creepy. Like the force behind the character could turn evil or silent or vengeful at any moment. I liked the book and the movie, but it always had a dark side to it for me, even as a child.
You're right. How about the tiny little woman Mrs. Corrie, who spoke so crossly to her two giant daughters Annie and Fannie? Mrs. Corrie broke off her fingers to give to the children to eat - barley-sugar or peppermint treats. She was so ancient she hung the stars in the sky.
Mary Poppins terrified me to death when I was a kid she was so rigid and stern to me. I thought nanny's were sent to punish kids
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ConnieB616 I did a double take at that part twice in horror because I thought I couldn’t possibly have seen that correctly
I've always had a love-hate relationship with Mary Poppins. On the one hand, it was a huge influence on my childhood and the lighthearted scenes brought me great joy, on the other hand, however, there were scenes that deeply creeped me out and still do to this day. When I watch the movie I still skip over all of the bank scenes for example.
The original movie was so wonderful. Mary Poppins is the original strong female character. So many childhood memories. Saving Mr Banks made me cry. It's all an incredible story.
Yeah,I saw that,that and the backstory to OZ and the Batman show
There's a quote from Killing Joke that sums up PL Travers view of her life: "If I'm going to have a past. I prefer it be multiple choice."
oh I didn t know that quote, thank you so much , it explains a lot
same goes for walt disney, as he explains in "saving mr banks"
his most autobiographical movie "so dear to my heart" is very similar to walt's childhood only the movie has a happy ending and little jeremiah played by bobby driscoll could keep his pet
while walt disney, even at age 60, would still hear the distressed cry of his childhood pet in dreams
@@ginauccelatore3002 The Killing Joke is a DC comic, just so you know. And most of Saving Mr Banks is compilations of smaller moments of the Travers/Disney fiasco into narratively coherent scenes, they're effectively true, but they never actually happened.
Thank you. I didn't understand the references
I agree that PL Travers probably thought it, but Bert didn't take Mary Poppins' place in saving Mr. Banks. She set the whole climax of the movie in motion purposefully; no competent nanny would think that two energetic children in a bank all day would be anything but a disaster. Bert IS the one who has the literal moment with Banks, but Banks also strikes me as the kind of character that would not take advice from a woman as easily. Bert is a very enthusiastic pawn in the game Mary is playing, he's acting on her behalf. Even if he isn't, that moment doesn't happen without Mary conning Banks into taking the children to work with him.
Being a fan of Disney's version since age 3 when already in my teens, I found two of the original books on flea markets. I read them aloud to my mom. And I couldn't help but wonder about some unexpected ... eastern philosophic moments in the books. Now I know why. Amazing documentary
I totally know what she meant about not inventing Mary. I write a little and feel like a character just wants to tell their story. You become a conduit. Characters will tell you what they want.
I think she wanted a better family than what she had and she i guess wanted a family of her own but it backfired when she adopted and didn't know how to take care of a child but that doesn't mean she was a great writer.Take Agatha Christie,she didn't know what marriage was and she was a great writer
@@garycarpenter2980 As much as I loved this program and everything to do with Mary Poppins it was/is a stab in my heart learning that she separated a pair of twins. If she hadn't come along they may have been separated anyway and it was their family who allowed it to happen. But after watching programs about twin studies and the results from separating them it hits my soul differently. It's impossible to tell from this program, but it seems to have effected her son's twin more than it did him.
There are few writings that don't come from some "other place." Even when I wrote as a reporter, once I garnered the details and the quotes from the subjects, the stories wrote themselves. It's when you try to put yourself into it is when writers block occurs.
It is amazing how Mary Poppins has a deeper and even darker subtext when understand the backstory.
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If u believe this back story?
Binge watching!! I cannot get enough of your Documentaries!! Health and happiness to you and yours in the year to come!!
this was an extremely fascinating story behind a classic childhood movie of mine! I really appreciate the twists and turns emotionally the author went through. I think we can all relate to that need to reach out for help. great upload thank you!
BEST FILM EVER!!! I've not read the books, but do plan to... Such a beautiful documentary about the troubled author - just look what came out of her painful childhood experiences. So much magic, reassurance and safety for children everywhere.
Yes, but in the end she abandoned her own children! I feel for them! Now they have to figure out how to deal with their abandonment. To sad!
I had all the books - they are even better than the movie. P.L. Travers wrote those delightful books. I still have them.
I never knew about her . I loved the movie Mary Poppins . I'm glad they didn't give up and she allowed them to finish the movie . Pamela Trevors and Walt Disney brought a lot of joy into a lot of children's lives . Thanks for sharing this video with us .
She also forbade any other movies from being made while she lived.
Try Travers
I liked both
Her comments about her writing "coming to her" and "writing itself" remind me of composers like Tchaikovsky.
As an amateur writer, i know the feeling of "discovering" a story. Its almost magical how it shows up. Like you are an explorer. I'd like to think that it is pure imagination. Its can sometimes be fleeting, but i feel like the best stories come from "discovered" stories. (Just my 2 cents) :)
‘Saving Mr Banks’ is a beautiful movie, and will take you from laughter to tears. (They didn’t get Walt’s accent quite right-he has no hint of a southern drawl 😆-but doesn’t hurt the beauty of the film.) P L Travers’ story is fascinating.
I am believing her personality of disconnecting from people was greatly influenced by her childhood. She centered her life around herself by withdrawing into her world of "Mary Poppins.". I think the mere fact that her dad died while she still was in her childhood years, plus her mother distant herself from her life as well, created a dependence on herself to resolve any or whatever life threw at her.
Due to these 2 factors... aided her uneasiness to how she was so disappointed how the writing of the movie concerning the main character was dismissed in Mary Poppins not given the gracious credit within the story in solving the differences between the dad and children. For being that Mary Poppins was her character, she should have been given that task to offer the solution to the children.
But she was correct - look at what they did with "Pooh" - read the books - very different from the Disneyfied version.
Projects yes, though not many of us have read When we were very young, or Now we are six.
Well, then, in indignation and internal consistency Ms. "Travers" should have returned every Disney check in concert with her protests and dislike. She did do that, right? Surely she wouldn't sink so low as to accept millions for prostituting her creation. Or did she suddenly have a change of mind whenever the checks arrived just as she did on a whim with the color red?
George Lucas’s Star Wars is very different from the Disneyfied Star Wars.
Christopher Robin (I've read the books) dressed as a girl..well, WAS dressed as one (interesting..a major plot point of Song of the Southn's live poirtion is Johnny the little boy detesting those clothes after being laughed at..he takes off his own lace collar..
Nah. I read A.A. Milne almost as soon as I could read. I loved them and the Disney versions. Pooh, Piglet, Eyore, and the rest of the gang come to life.
Beautiful. Thank you. The power of this video builds as I watch it in entirety - when I began watching, I had no idea of the depth to come. A nice view.
What a wonderful accounting of her life and the back story of such a beloved character. I enjoyed this very much and I am determined to buy the books for my grandchildren.
P.L. Travers certainly was a difficult and complicated person. I can tell that Camilus will never forget the lie his mother told. I can see myself telling stories based on how I wished things were as opposed to the way things are. I think that's a very human thing to do.
Ty for this beautiful documentary. I enjoyed every second.
Here after watching Saving Mr. Banks, and I had to learn through non-Disney lenses how her story truly went down.
Never had a clue as to who wrote these books, never thought about it. I'm very glad this video popped up in my feed. What an incredibly interesting story her life was! So much sadness, so much strength breaking through the neuroses. If I'd been asked to guess or fantasize the author of Mary Poppins books she would be nothing like Pamela Travers. Thank you for posting this video! 👍
It's all bs
I am so glad I came across this. Very interesting. Thank you.
Beautiful documentary. Great script, insight and syperbly voiced.
An unexpectedly emotional and somewhat tragic backstory to the books.
Brilliant documentary about a deeply complex person who had such an amazing talent. Very inspirational.
Absolutely lovely documentary. Thank you for your wonderful work.
Mary Poppins is one of my favorite role models. She’s had a great influence on my life.❤
What a wonderful video! I really enjoyed leaning with you as you went through this process.
I knew there was something amazing in Mary Poppins. We had a neighbor who had 10 children. He and his children and us neighbor kids would dance to the music and reenact the different parts. Also read all the books.
She had the same conception as John Fowles. Writers only observe and record what they see...great documentary!
Many writers would tell you they're just taking dictation, or that the idea jumped on them from outside themselves, or that they just watch the story and write down what they see. It's not an unusual phenomenon. Creativity has been thought of as a gift rather than an inborn thing for millenia. Travers was in a long tradition.
Serai3 the same can be said for sculpture’s and painters ,
Well yeah, but we're not talking about sculpture or painting here, but film. I never said it was exclusive to writers.
Just looked back at the video. I mentioned writers that way because the video seemed to imply there was something odd or unusual about the way Travers said she wrote. There's isn't, thus my comment.
Mary Poppins is the first movie my mother took me to see when I was in fourth grade. I loved it and still do. Mom also bought me a Mary Poppins doll and a record of songs in the movie.
Loved both movies.
Loved Emma as Pamela and Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins.🌂
What a wonderful documentary of the author. I am 67 now and I did not know they were books and I may see if I can find some of them they would be a great read!
To seperate twins is so sad. glad they finally met, Very interesting
My Mom got this book for us children and latee the movie.
My Mom passed away a few months after my Dad in January 2017. We called her Momma.
I feel bad for the twins
Me too.
@Trump Won no but it definitely shows what effect all this had on them both
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It seems as though she had such a traumatic childhood; yet, she was able to turn her misery into gold. She seemed sad as a person as well too.
I wonder if her actions during the creation of the film was more from a deep desire to not give up her creation. maybe she was oping she would be ridiculous enough, Disney would drop the project. Authors are deeply attached to their work.some may difficulty letting go.
Disney ruined Mary Poppins though. P. L. Travers was right.
Sounds like a very sad, sad little girl who was totally neglected so she invented Mary Poppins, poor chipmunk. I thought Poppins came from a happy soul not a tortured one. Disaster.
She wrote Mary Poppins because of the lost of her father and as for her father he had loved her very much.
She also hated the movie and forbid any other movies from being made while she was alive, and she didn't care for how the movie focused on the soft side of Mary Poppins(as she preferred the sterner side).
A Phoenix can rise from ashes.
Fascinating biography of Pamela. What a complex person she was.
She was like Agatha Christie,both were complexed
This is beautiful. Im so happy I stumbled upon this documentary.
Outstanding documentary! Thank-you
And what a timeless movie.. my favourite movie and now my grandchildren enjoy it..❤❤
This was very captivating. I hit the like button so I could perhaps watch it again.
Never saw the movie or read the books, but this was still very interesting! I feel oddly comforted by a character I don't even know. Very inspiring and intriguing.
You need to watch the movie! It is cinematic history!
I don’t think there is sugar and spice in the books, there’s lots of sorrow and loneliness.
Never read the books, sorry but saw all the movies more than once and loved every one. I’m over 70 and still can enjoy them😊
I’m glad the twins are close now thank goodness they got back together
I can really see why she didn’t like those two aspects of the film. I agree with her.
I first saw this movie in elementary school my teacher brought the movie because it was a half day I saw it and loved it I loved the songs loved the characters it was amazing
What is it about the loss of a father when you are 7 years old?
P.l. response was much like my own.
It is one thing I and my husband shared, and the effects, though so much else about our individual lives was so disparate, that have united us in a very visceral way.
I just saw this for the first time it’s amazing. When raising my kids I said “ spit spot “ all the time. Now I say it to my grandkids.
Camillus died from the effects of alcoholism in 2011. When he starts to cry and asks for a drink I want to say to him, Can you actually feel what you are feeling rather than try to drink it away?
inkyguy, some pain cannot be experienced twice and more cannot be experienced over and over. Even the hardest rock fractures under the tiny, unrelenting drip of a rivulet.
Wonderfully put!
Bear U, it can be expressed and it can be grieved. There are ways to really heal. In fact, we know now that even the most extreme trauma can be treated by retelling it in the right setting again and again. Alcohol and drugs deaden pain; they don't remove it or heal it. They just leave you that much less equipped to deal with it, as well as life.
he s a rich drunk
Dequadre Walton, the operative word being “drunk.”
sad story, poor camillus and his brother
It is a very sad story indeed. Never knew that writers we adored so much in our childhood were so selfish and unsensitive.
Sad attempt at being a mother. Terrible selfishness
Enid blyton ignored her kids.
I couldn’t agree more and yet everyone calls Walt the bad guy
why are the titles so good! nice work animation team! haha
After seeing the movie at 7, I just couldn’t understand why I couldn’t just snap my fingers and have my room clean itself.🤔
To this day, I wish I could do that. Maybe if I sang “Just a Spoonful of Sugar” in key, it might work 👌🤞
You and me both and ride a tornado to OZ or go through a wardrobe to Narnia or fly to Never Land
I love Meet Poppins! Haven't read the books, but now I want to!!
You must be rubbing your hands all the way to the bank with this many ads on one vid 🙄
If your wondering where the author was born she was born in Australian QLD Maryborough. And if you drive around the town you can see a museum of where she was born and its also a museum about Mary Poppins.
I have a friend that lives in Melbourne,I'll try and get him to go there......thanks for the info
@Gary Carpenter Lol, Maryborough is probably two and half thousand klicks from Melbourne, anyway where is that flying umbrella when you need it? the one that flies right over c**vd border crossing checks and all...
i had to check, its about two thousand k's from Melbourne, but wouldn't it be fun to unfurl that brolly and fly! no airport security etc
I live just along the road from Maryborough, in addition to everything else there - the pedestrian crossings, instead of having the silhouette of a person standing on a red background for STOP and a silhouette of a person walking, on a green background for GO, the silhouettes feature the unmistakable shape of Mary Poppins complete with hat, umbrella and carpet bag. Standing/STOP and Walking/GO 😂.
Since the movie, more accurate that a lot is to be revealed about her. She's very far from unknown & a lot of her backstory came out w/the interest generated by the movie. Fascinating documentary, but let's face it: It's piggybacking on the film.
Emma Thompson looks GREAT here.
This may have been made as a complimentary piece to the movie. Definitely not piggy backing on it since much of the filming was done before the movie came out. Camillus passed away in 2011 and the movie came out 2 years later.
36:40 wow that plate and those cherries are huge!
JosephJamesScott Perspective.
Forced perspective is an old filmmaker's trick. I love to see non-computer-generated effects in cinema, like what is used in live theater and old films.
This is beautiful 🦋💙
What a fairytale documentary. Absolutely outstanding.
Interesting & fond memories brought me to watch. Thank you ever so.
love the horse icon. the flying,powerful, determined,taking the reins horse.
I was amazed at the positions my mouth was in as I watched enraptured! What a beautiful story and a great video. Best wishes through the next few weeks.
So many ads! It’s frustrating!!
My all time favourite movie of all time,and I am 57 years old….
Artists are mercurial and P. L. Travers seems to have been the epitome of this. Her turbulent childhood had a deep-seated impact on her. The most troubled authors are some of the most talented. It's unfortunate that she chose only one of the twins. I think twins have a special bond, so separating them was truly sad. The Poppins character was probably meant to save her father, but he was already gone. It enabled her to be the writer she wanted to be and be ensconsed in the literary circles she craved. I hope in the end she found some solace in having achieved a memorable place in literary history. 😢
I love “saving mr banks” I’ve watched it 2-3 times
Very fascinating documentary. Does anyone know what the background music is that begins at 8:21?
I enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing it.
And Walt Disney did wreck the story. I enjoyed the books. Not the movie
Wonderful documentary!
Thank you this was wonderful and informative 😊
While watching this clip I found too many commercials in my face.
37:40 I love when actresses admit the true meaning of Hollywood
I feel as if my personality has drawn inspiration throughout my entire life❤ I was 6 or 7 yrs old when I saw the movie ❤
As a child, I saw the Disney film twice at the theater. Reading the book a few years later, I was struck even then,with how dark and bizarre the story actually was. Many many more years later, I watched the film about the author,and the making of the Disney version. A decent, and questionably accurate version of events.
I saw this in the sixties and cried when she left them😢