Continuity mistake: The father tears the children's advert for a nanny up into 8 pieces, but when it comes out of the chimney it's in far more bits.
Mary Poppins (1964)
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Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
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Mary Poppins: We can't have them gallivanting up there like kangaroos, can we?
Trivia: The voice of Mary Poppins' parrot head umbrella is David Tomlinson (Mr Banks).
Question: Does anybody know how they did the scene where Mary Poppins is doing a duet with her mirror image?
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Chosen answer: They recorded her singing in two separate parts and fixed them together. The editors did a good job on it! It may have been made a long time ago but even then the technology was quite advanced enough to carry out that scene.