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Collins Colour Cubs also published four children's books based on the movie; Tom the Little Chimney Sweep, Tom Becomes A Water-Baby, Tom in The Undersea World and Tom and Ellie. [10] [11] [12] In addition a novelization of the movie was published the same year as an Armada paperback (ISBN 0006914357, 9780006914358).
The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", [3] as he is told by a caddisfly – an insect that sheds its skin – and begins his moral education.
"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
In Mary Poppins, Van Dyke played chimney sweep Bert (with a quick cameo as bank owner Mr. Dawes Sr.), opposite Andrews’ titular role as a magical nanny. "She was cool as a cucumber,” Van Dyke ...
"The shepherdess and the chimney sweep", loosely based on the fairy-tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen), the film was a collaboration between Grimault and popular French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert. However, the film suddenly stopped production and was released unfinished by its producer in 1952, without the approval of ...
The song was inspired by one of the drawings of a chimney sweep created by Mary Poppins screenwriter Don DaGradi. When the Sherman Brothers asked about the drawing, DaGradi explained the ancient British folklore attributed to "sweeps" and how shaking hands with one or touching their sleeve could bring a person good luck. [2]
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep by Hans Christian Andersen: From the Silly Symphony series. The Grasshopper and the Ants: 1934: The Ant and the Grasshopper by Aesop: From the Silly Symphony series. The Big Bad Wolf: 1934: Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault/Brothers Grimm, featuring characters from Three Little Pigs: From the Silly ...
Thus, The Chimney Sweep is a bricolage, combining Méliès's sense of fantasy with the dramatic, realist tone of popular Pathé films, possibly with a young audience in mind. [3] The chase at the end of the film also suggests Méliès's attempts to keep up with the times, as chase films had become a popular trend.