Film Adaptation
One segment of the book, The Cat That Looked at a King, was adapted by DisneyToon Studios as a 10-minute short film for the Walt Disney Company 40th anniversary DVD release of the 1964 Mary Poppins film. Combining animation with live action, the film opens on the same set where Dick Van Dyke's character, Bert, was shown as a pavement artist in the earlier film. Julie Andrews appears in the short, but it is left ambiguous as to whether she is portraying a modern-day version of Mary Poppins. However due to her shadow wearing Mary Poppins' hat, because she uses Mary Poppin's catchphrase "Spitspot", mentions the penguin waiters and since she quotes Poppins from the movie ("I have no intention of making a spectacle of myself, thank you very much."), it's quite possibly that Andrews portrays a modern-day version of the nanny.
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