On Television
In the famous Mary Martin musical version of the play, which opened on Broadway in 1954 and was first televised in 1955, Tinker Bell was represented by a darting light, as on stage, accompanied by bell-like sounds. Her favorite insult (as in Barrie's story) was "You silly ass!", which the audience watching the production eventually learns to recognize because it is always represented by the same group of sounds - four bell-like notes (one for each syllable of the phrase, presumably), followed by a growl on the bassoon.
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