How Mary Poppins Changed Movies Forever | Movies Insider

"Mary Poppins," the 1964 Disney film about a flying, magical nanny isn't just a beloved classic — it's a monumental movie in the history of filmmaking. The film is regarded as Walt Disney's crowning live-action achievement, as the only Disney film to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in his lifetime. What's often overlooked is that the film was also that year's Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects. To bring "Mary Poppins" to life, Disney hired the engineer and inventor, Petro Vlahos. His innovation eventually became the basis of the modern green screen.

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How Mary Poppins Changed Movies Forever | Movies Insider

[guillermovaccarezza]

The veil chroma keying is just MIND BLOWING. I work on small productions VFX and I can tell you its very difficult to achieve that level of precision with today's standard digital tools.

[mrcydonia]

Rejoice! Paul Debevec has created a new inexpensively made prism to filter out the yellow light and Corridor Crew tested it out and it works perfectly.

[youwouldnotlikeitanyway]

The human intelligence is truly astounding and astonishing.

[mojojoji]

Corridor crew is about to reveal this!!!

[ScoobyandShaggy]

Without Vlahos we’d never get anything the MCU made lol

[demelopatrick]

In the new film (mary poppins returns) there is a huge amount of sequences that show fire and public lamps that shine in the exactly sodium yellow color mentioned in this video. Did someone else notice these detail? Is this a real reference and tribute to the achivements of Mr. Vlahos, or am I just imagining things?

[NenadlPopovic]

Yes it did change history forever. Chalk drawing scene is among the most known & most beloved scenes in history of movie making.

[pmanolak]

Petros Vlachos, well deserved!!! you were a genius! Greece is proud of you!

[yamio]

The magic and beauty of this great classic movie never fades. It is as awesome as the remake (Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt giving her own mesmerizing interpretation of this beloved whimsical nanny that has captured the hearts of the audience worldwide both young and old). I love this movie! Thank you, Mr. Vlahos for your great contribution.

[ronstarkronstark]

What a pleasantly informative read. I’m a live action director and I found this little feature supercalifragalistic! Applause. At this time of Poppins mania what you did here is timely indeed. Merry Christmas. Well done!

[justaweirdguy]

When I was little I was conscious and so amazed of Mary Poppins combing the real world and animation. It is me of the most important movies in the history of cinema.
A new Mary Poppins movie came out but you don't get as amazed as the first one, we are now used to seeing a mix of realistic animation and live action, how things have changed...

[mattdawg]

Having been a VFX fan since seeing Star Wars in 1977, I always look for the telltale signs of blue screen work when watching older movies. Particularly when it comes to hair and material flapping. Mary Poppins blew my mind, and I now have the answer about how Julie Andrews’ veil was flawlessly photographed and the process behind it. It’s bugged me for years because the effect is undetectable and perfect. This was a truly groundbreaking film on so many levels.

[soeddlk]

I'm not Mary but I'm Poppin.

[CrnchyToast]

I’ve seen Mary Poppins countless times, and watched tons of documentaries about it, but never knew about this. Thanks for the new insight!!! I now have a renewed appreciation for this masterpiece!

[poweroffriendship.]

*_So Mary Poppins made a sequel after 54 years of waiting... and 60s people still can't stop beating the dead horse after many years._*

[Pauly]

You had to hit us with Claire de Lune at the end? I'm not crying you're crying!

[tyjuarez]

2:07 is an accurate description of how modern greenscreen works, but blue screen's a bit different.

First, they would film against a bright blue screen, since blue's a primary color that won't mess with skin tones.
Second, they take the "Blue" strip of film (in RGB Technicolor) and crank the contrast up until everything blue is brightest white, and everything not blue is darkest black.
This way, there's essentially a moving version of the Glass Matte you described earlier. This film where there's a moving sillhouette cutout of the actor is used to expose the actor into the final film.
Then, the matte is inverted, to create the one used for exposing the background into the final film.

[pmanolak]

A big big respect to this great man Petros Vlachos from Greece!!!

[Haejinka]

Film making was harder back then but those effects back them are now basic editting skills

[RenzohsClub]

Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music were one of my favourite movies!