Additionally, the musical number ' Trip a Little Light Fantastic' shows an homage to 'Step in Time'. While not directly featured in the film, the Lamplighters led by Jack show an homage to the chimney sweeps from the original film. As the Chimney Sweeps leave the house, they run past Cherry Tree Lane past the Constable who notices them running across the street. Mary then tells Bert to tell his friends to leave now to which he does so by whistling to which all of a sudden, the Chimney Sweeps leave the house altogether. Binnacle then loads to explosives to scare them away just as the Chimney Sweeps react to the cannon's blast, dodging the fireworks.Īs the Chimney Sweeps go down the chimney at the Banks family’s house, Ellen is humiliated with many of them inside their house just as Mary, Bert, Jane, and Michael go down the chimney just as the Chimney Sweeps continue dancing altogether, to which Winifred and her husband George look worried to have many Chimney Sweeps dancing in the house altogether.

Binnacle see the Chimney Sweeps from a distance, confusing them for intruders to which Boom offers Binnacle to load the cannon with dynamites and fireworks to scare them off. After Mary dances, the Chimney Sweeps continue dancing altogether on the rooftops as well as dancing on the top of the chimneys altogether. Observing them, Bert offers Mary to participate with them to which she accepts Bert's offer. As they dance altogether happily, they sing in chorus together and as they continuously dance on the rooftops as Mary, Jane, and Michael watch the Chimney Sweeps dancing throughout the song. The Chimney Sweeps are seen during the part where Mary Poppins, Bert, Jane, and Michael reach the rooftops via bottom of the fireplace to which while exploring, the four encounter various of them popping out together to which upon encountering them, Bert is happy to see his pals where they participate in the film's memorable musical number, 'Step in Time'. Even though the scene proved to be a challenge, the production crew was able to overcome this challenge of filming this sequence.

Despite being filmed once, the challenging sequence had to be filmed twice due to the first footage of the film being scratched leading to poor quality on the footage, in which the sequence had to be filmed again. The sequence was filmed outdoors in Burbank and took about an entire week to finish it during the summertime between August and September with a huge tarpaulin over the actors which helped hold the heat in it while filming the scene. Prior to the filming of the 'Step in Time' sequence, most of the rehearsal began on this sequence where the sequence was filmed outside in order to toughen the actors up and get ready for the final version of the film. The 'Step in Time' musical number featuring the Chimney Sweeps in it proved to be the most advanced scene, due to Bert dancing with numerous actors on set. Binnacle use their cannon to launch fireworks confusing them for intruders causing the Chimney Sweeps to scatter around. Although they dance throughout the sequence, they become fearful when Admiral Boom and Mr. They are seen constantly dancing with Bert during the musical number, 'Step in Time' where they dance with Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael Banks throughout the sequence. The Chimney Sweeps, as their names imply, are a group of chimney sweeps whom Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael encounter on the rooftops of London.

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