1.Title
The film starts with an aerial view of London in 1910.
2.London
Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, gets ready for her next assignment.
3.Mary Poppins gets ready
She receives a letter from the children of Mr. and Mrs. Banks requesting a nanny and goes tomeet the parents.
4.The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Banks
Mr. Banks is a stiff conservative banker and Mrs. Banks is a suffragette, working for women's rights,including the right to vote.
5.Mary Poppins arrives with the letter
She has the letter the children wrote, which the father thought he had destroyed.
6.Mary Poppins meets the children Jane and Michael
She finds that the children are "naughty" sometimes.
Mary Poppins likes birds and sings to them.
7.Mary Poppins and a bird
Birds will figure more importantly in the story later.
8.Egyptian Magic Coin Cleopatra-Bird Variety with a similar pose
Just a coincidence, of course.Mary Poppins couldn't be that old.
She has a friend Bert who is a street artist, and later a chimney sweep.
9.Bert the street artist
Bert has his cap out for "coppers", or British copper coins.
10.Bert's coppers in the hat
The coins appear to be Edward VII pennies.
The father thinks that Mary Poppins is not preparing the children for life, and she agrees and workshim around to taking the children to his bank, sort of a 1910 version of "take your kids to work day."
Mary Poppins sings the song "Feed the Birds" to the children, the song is about giving.
11.Mary Poppins sings "Feed the Birds"
During the song, the "Bird Woman" appears, she sits on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral sellingbags of bird food for tuppence (two pence) a bag.
The British pound was worth then US five dollars, there were 240 pence (pennies) to the pound.Therefore "tuppence" would have been worth around four US cents.
12.The Bird Woman
The song and it's message put the children in the correct frame of mind for their visit to the bank.
Next morning Mr. Banks takes the kids to his bank.The bank is the "Dawes, Tomes, Mousely, Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank."
13.Father takes the children to his bank
Michael has two pence, and as they pass the Bird Woman, Michael wants to "feed the birds."His father ridicules the idea and they continue to the bank.They arrive at the bank and are met by the board of directors.Mr. Banks asks Michael to show them what is in his hand.
14.Michael holding tuppence
The board members, especially the senior member Mr. Dawes, greedily eye Michael's tuppence.
15.The bankers make a strong suggestion
The bankers advise Michael to "invest" his tuppence in the bank.
16.Michael has his tuppence in hand
The banker is able to grab the coins.
17.The banker gets the goods
Micheal screams for his money, the customers outside hear the noise, and they start withdrawingtheir money, causing a panic and a "run on the bank."
18.The "run on the bank"
Michael and Jane escape the confusion and head home.
They are met by Bert, Mary Poppins, and Bert's chimney sweep friends for a long musical numberset on the rooftops of London.
Bert explains to the children about how hard their father works for them.
Back at home, they meet their father, and Michael, unhappy with the trouble he has caused,gives his tuppence to his father.
19.Michael hands the tuppence to father
Mr. Banks receives a telephone call from the bank board requesting his presence.He knows that he will be "sacked" or discharged.
20.Mr. Banks heads to the bank
Mr. Banks enters the chamber which is set up almost like a military court-martial.
21.In the chamber
The senior banker explains that the bank has not such a disgrace since they financed ashipment of tea to America in 1773 (destroyed during the "Boston Tea Party").
The board cashiers (dishonorably discharges) Mr. Banks; one banker punches a holein his bowler hat, the symbol of a banker.
22.Mr. Banks is cashiered
Mr. Banks, having lost his position, makes sarcastic jokes to the bankers, quotes Mary Poppins'favorite word, and shows them the tuppence.
The tuppence are finally ready for their close-up:
23.The tuppence
The coins are two large worn British pennies, one showing King Edward VII (1901-1910)
A British Penny of King Edward VII:
24.A British Edward VII Penny from 1902
Bronze, 30.8 mm, 9.45 gm
Back to the film:
Mr. Banks angrily waves the tuppence around frightening the bankers.
25.Mr. Banks waving tuppence
Things end happily for Mr. Banks the next morning, he takes his wife and children out to fly kites,and meets the bankers who have taken his advice, they inform him that the senior Mr. Dawes"died happy" and offer him his position back and a promotion.
26.The Banks family flying kites
Mary Poppins had told the children that she would stay only until the wind changes.The wind changes and she gets ready to leave.
27.Mary Poppins' goodbye
