Apprentie witch

Apprentie witch is the 26e feature film of animation of the studios Disney. Left in 1971 and mixing animation and taken real sights like Mary Poppins (1964), it is drawn from the novels of Mary Norton, The Magic Bed Knob (gold How to Become has Witch in Ten Easy Lessons ) and Bonfires and Broomsticks , published in 1943.

Synopsis

During the Second world war, the village of Pepperinge Eye, located at the south of the England, was selected to accommodate the London children and to put them at the shelter bombardments Nazis. Charlie, Carrie and Paul, all brother and sister, are thus placed to an elderly spinster, Eglantine Price. If it appears with the first access rather cold with these quite cumbersome intruders, it ends up sticking to the three children. It has gone even until their acknowledging that it is a apprentie Sorcière according to, for several months, by correspondence, the courses of eminent professor Emelius Browne. It can in particular overlap about correctly a brush or transform human into white rabbit. But the Second War came to oppose its studies right at the time when it was on the point of learning the formula giving life to the objects. Decided well to finish its training, it flies away, on board its great copper bed for London with its three protected, to ask accounts Emelius. This last proves to be a perfect charlatan, very astonished by the success of the formulas that it is, in fact, satisfied to recopy of an incomplete book of magic. Disillusion passed, Wild rose, Emelius and the children leave to research the missing pages in an old bookseller and well quickly discover that the desired formula is engraved on Star of Astaroth, itself located in the mythical island of Naboombu. Once on this strange island, populated animals with the human behaviors, and after some adventures, which a football game extremely animated, our four comparses succeed in seizing Star, by subtilizing it with the king lion of the island. Of return to Pepperinge Eye, Eglantine is afflicted to note that the city is victim of a night unloading of German troops. But it is without counting on the Magic Formula, which, animating the armours, swords, lances and flags preserved at the castle, such of the phantoms of the army of William the Conqueror, rejects with the sea this army of invasion…

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Data sheet

Title: Apprentie witch
original Title: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (litt. " Balls of bed and handles with balais")
Realization: Robert Stevenson, assisted Christopher Hibler; Arthur J. Vitarelli (second team)
Scenario: Bill Walsh and Gift Da Gradi according to Mary Norton; Ralph Wright and Ted Berman (sequences of animation)
Director of the photography: Franck Philips
Artistic director: John B. Mansbridge and Peter Ellenshaw
Decorators: Emile Kuri and Hall Gausman
Costumes: Bill Thomas, assisted Shelby Anderson, Chuck Keene and Emily Sundby
Make-up: Robert J. Schiffer
Hairstyles: the Generic Street Matheron
: David Jonas
Script: Consulting Laws Thurman
techniques: Manfred Lating, Milt Larsen, James McInnes, Bob Baker and Spungbuggy Works
special Effects: Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee
Design graphic:

Artistic director: McLaren Stewart
Framing (Layout): Gift Griffith and Joe Hauls
Décors: Al Dempster, Dick Kelsey, Ralph Hulett and Bill Layne

Animation:

Supervision: Ward Kimball
Animation of the characters: Milt Kahl, Art Stevens, Julius Svendsen, John Lounsbery, Hall King, Eric Larson, Fred Hellmich, Jack Buckley and Jack Boyd

Sound: Robert O. Cook (supervision), Dean Thomas (mixing)
Assembly: Knitting machine Warbuton (film), James W. Swain (sequences of animation), Evelyn Kennedy (music)
Music:

Songs: Richard Mr. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Arrangements and direction: Irwin Kostal, assisted James Macdonald
Répétiteur dances: Albert Mello

Chorégrapie: Donald McKayle, assisted Carolyn Dyer
Associate producer: Bill Walsh
Production: Walt Disney Pictures
Distribution: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Budget: approx. 20.000.000 US$
Format: Colors - 1,75:1 - Stereo Dolby (Mono of origin)
Lasted: 113 minutes (first version), 134 minutes (arisen 2003)
Comings out date: The United States: November 11th 1971; France: December 13rd 1972

Original distribution and voices

Angela Lansbury : Wild rose Price
David Tomlinson: Prof Emelius Browne
Roddy McDowall: Mr. Jelk
Cindy O' Callaghan: Carrie Rawlins
Roy Snart : Paul Rawlins
Ian Weighill: Charlie Rawlins
Sam Jaffe: Bookman (Bookseller)
John Ericsson: Colonel Heller
Bruce Forsyth: Swinburne
Tessie O'Shea : Mrs. Hobday
Arthur Gould-To carry: Captain Ainsley Greer
Reginald Owen : General Sir Brian Teagler
Ben Wrigley: Portobello Road Workman (Working)
Cyril Delevanti: Elderly Farmer (Old farmer)
Rick Traeger: German Sergeant
Manfred Lating : German Sergeant
John Orchard: Vendor (Salesman of paintings)
Bob Holt: Mr. Codfish (voice)
Lennie Weinrib: Secretary Bird (Bird-Secretary) /King Leonidas (King Léonidas) (voice)
Dal McKennon: Bear (Bear) (voice)

French voices

the 1st doubling (1972)

Mony Dalmès : Wild rose Price
Éliane Thibault: Wild rose Price (song)
Philippe Dumat: Emelius Browne
Francis Linel: Emelius Browne (song)
Severine Morisot: Carrie Rawlins
Patrice Bruno: Paul Rawlins
Cyril Bruno: Charlie Rawlins
Henri Virlojeux: The Bookseller
Jean Shepherd: Colonel Heller
Georges Atlas: Mr. Swinburne
Lita Recio: Mrs. Hobday
Marine Jacques: Captain Ainsley Greer
Fernand Fabre: General Sir Brian Teagler
Marie Francey: Boutiquière
Jean-Henri Chambois: Mr. the Hake
Jacques Ciron: The Bird-Secretary
Claude Bertrand: The King Léonidas
Jacques Dynam: the Bear

the 2nd doubling (2003)

Brigitte Virtudes: Wild rose Price
Bernard Alane: Emelius Browne
Eric Legrand: Mr. Jelk
Camille Donda: Carrie Rawlins
Maxime Baudoin: Paul Rawlins
Louis Potter: Charlie Rawlins
Pierre Stick: The Bookseller
Marion Range: Mrs. Hobday
Philippe Dumat: Captain Ainsley Greer
Jacques Dynam: The Old farmer
Gerard Freed of salt: Mr. the Hake
Jean-Claude Donda: The Bird-Secretary
Richard Darbois: The King Leonidas
Pascal Renwick: the Bear

Songs of film

The Old Home Guard
The Age off Not Believing
With has Flair (only in the long version)
Eglantine
Portobello Road
The Beautiful Briny
Substitutiary Locomotion
Nobody' S Problems For Me (only in the long version)

Rewards and nominations

1972 - 1 Oscar: " Best Effects, Special Visual Effects" (Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett & Danny Lee)
1972 - 4 nominations with the Oscar:

"Best Art Decoration" Direction-Set; (John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri & Hall Gausman)
" Best Design" Costume; (Bill Thomas)
" Best Music, Original Song" : Old The off Not Believing (Richard Mr. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman)
" Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score" (Richard Mr. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman & Irwin Kostal)

1972 - 1 Nomination with the Golden Globes: " Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy" (Angela Lansbury)

Exits Cinema

October 7th, 1971 - the United Kingdom (First)
November 11th, 1971 - the United States (New York)
December 13rd, 1971 - the United States
December 23rd, 1971 - Argentinian
October 16th, 1972 - Spain
October 23rd, 1972 - Sweden
October 27th, 1972 - Finland
December 13rd, 1972 - France
December 15th, 1972 - West Germany
March 10th, 1973 - Japan

Videos out

Years 1980 - VHS with realignment 4/3 (Full screen) (17 minutes shortened Version)
Fall 1993 - VHS with recradrage 4/3 (shortened Version 17 minutes)
Be 1997 - VHS with realignment 4/3 (shortened Version 17 minutes)
Be 1997 - Laserdisc with Format 1.66 (17 minutes shortened Version)
2001 - DVD with Format 1.66 (Version cinema shortened 17 minutes)
October 8th 2003 - VHS with Realignment 4/3 (Version of origin restored new)
October 8th, 2003 - DVD with Format 1.66 (Version of new restored origin)

Differences between film and the novel

In the first part, the children live in their aunt in the place of Mrs. Price, with whom they live right during the second part.
In the place of animals, in film, in fact cannibals live the island, in the book.
In the book, the island is called Ueepe instead of Naboombou.
In the novel, it has no reference to the Second world war there.
Emelius Jones (Emelius Browne in film) is Nécromancien.
Carrie is elder children.
In original work, Églantine remains with Emelius in the past at the end of the second book, where they marry.

Did you know?

was had a presentiment of:

for the role of Price Wild rose: Julie Andrews, Leslie Charon, Lynn Redgrave and Judy Edge
for the role of Emelius Browne: Ron Moody, Fagin of Oliver! (1968)

As it will be the case for the saga Harry Potter , the distribution is exclusively European (not to say British) except for American Sam Jaffe.

During the match of Football (Soccer in English), one can hear the famous cry of Dingo.

the song The Beautiful Briny was in the beginning planned for Mary Poppins (1964), but it was abandoned in the course of production.

the film again brings together several people who had taken part in Mary Poppins , namely David Tomlinson, the Sherman brothers, the realizer Robert Stevenson, the artistic director Peter Ellenshaw and the musical director Irwin Kostal.

the film marks the last collaboration of the Sherman brothers with Disney until the Aventures of Tigrou (2000). It is also the last Disney film to receive a Oscar until the Small Siren (1989) and the last appearance of the actor Réginald Owen.

Titrate in various languages

German: Die tollkühne Hexe in ihrem fliegenden Bett
English: Bedknobs and Spanish Broomsticks
(Spain): Bruja Novata (" The witch débutante")
French: Hebrew Apprentie Witch
: המיטההמעופפת (" The bed volant")
Dutch: Heksen in Italian Bezemstelen
: Pomi of ottone E manici di scopa
Portuguese (Brazil): has Minha Cama Voasse
Swedish: Sängknoppar och kvastskaft

External bonds

Apprentie witch in Internet Movie Database
Apprentie witch in Ultimate Disney

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