![]() ![]() ![]() Once Miss Price learns it, she'll have to use its power to bring inanimate objects to life to save her hometown from none other than the Nazis. ![]() So begins a greater journey, from the market at Portobello Road to the Isle of Naboombu (land of animated talking animals), in search of the spell. ![]() She and the children travel to London via bed - in exchange for the children keeping her secret, she enchanted one of its bedknobs for them with a travelling spell - and discover the "professor", Emelius Browne, is a fraud who was just selling her the pages of an incomplete spellbook he bought off a used book dealer. But the school abruptly closes, leaving her without the all-important Substitutiary Locomotion spell she needs. They are taken in by Miss Eglantine Price ( Angela Lansbury), a spinster whom they discover is secretly taking mail-order witchcraft lessons in hopes of being able to aid the war effort with magic. It is 1940 in the British coastal village of Pepperinge Eye, and among the children evacuated here from the ongoing London Blitz are three orphaned siblings, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. The 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a take on a pair of novels by Mary Norton, is often regarded as a Spiritual Successor to Mary Poppins - a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, etc. ![]()
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