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In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, Admiral Boom mistakes the rooftop-dancing chimney sweeps for an attack by "Hottentots". In 2024, the BBFC raised the film's age rating from U to PG due to this instance of "discriminatory language". [27]
SEE MORE: 'Mary Poppins' star Glynis Johns dead at 100 The film, set in 1910 London, follows Andrews as a lovable family nanny whose unique style brings a magical shift to a disciplined family.
Mary Poppins has had its age rating raised from U to PG by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), six decades after it was released.. The movie is being re-released in some cinemas next ...
The interlude continues with Bert, Mary Poppins, Michael, Jane and all the chimneysweeps dancing around the rooftops and as Admiral Boom, the Banks family's next-door neighbour, looks at them with the telescope, he thinks that they're Hottentot robbers, so he orders his assistant, Mr. Binnacle, to make them scram with colorful fireworks.
Critic Drew Casper summarized the impact of Mary Poppins in 2011: Disney was the leader, his musical fantasies mixing animation and truly marvelous f/x with real-life action for children and the child in the adult. Mary Poppins (1964) was his plum. ... the story was elemental, even trite. But utmost sophistication (the chimney pot sequence ...
Ahead of its 60th anniversary re-release, Mary Poppins has had its age rating in the UK raised from a U to a PG due to "discriminatory language".
The age rating for Disney's 1964 “Mary Poppins” has been increased in the U.K. due to “discriminatory language” about the Khoekhoe, an indigenous group in South Africa.
Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) [1] [2] was a British child actor, most notable as Michael Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.His other screen credits include The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) and The Gnome-Mobile (1967), appearing alongside actress Karen Dotrice in all three films they made for Walt Disney Pictures.