After Mary dances, the Chimney Sweeps continue dancing altogether on the rooftops as well as dancing on the top of the chimneys altogether. Observing them, Bert offers Mary to participate with them to which she accepts Bert's offer. As they dance altogether happily, they sing in chorus together and as they continuously dance on the rooftops as Mary, Jane, and Michael watch the Chimney Sweeps dancing throughout the song. The Chimney Sweeps are seen during the part where Mary Poppins, Bert, Jane, and Michael reach the rooftops via bottom of the fireplace to which while exploring, the four encounter various of them popping out together to which upon encountering them, Bert is happy to see his pals where they participate in the film's memorable musical number, "Step in Time". Even though the scene proved to be a challenge, the production crew was able to overcome this challenge of filming this sequence. Despite being filmed once, the challenging sequence had to be filmed twice due to the first footage of the film being scratched leading to poor quality on the footage, in which the sequence had to be filmed again. The sequence was filmed outdoors in Burbank and took about an entire week to finish it during the summertime between August and September with a huge tarpaulin over the actors which helped hold the heat in it while filming the scene. Prior to the filming of the "Step in Time" sequence, most of the rehearsal began on this sequence where the sequence was filmed outside in order to toughen the actors up and get ready for the final version of the film. The "Step in Time" musical number featuring the Chimney Sweeps in it proved to be the most advanced scene, due to Bert dancing with numerous actors on set. Binnacle use their cannon to launch fireworks confusing them for intruders causing the Chimney Sweeps to scatter around. Although they dance throughout the sequence, they become fearful when Admiral Boom and Mr. They are seen constantly dancing with Bert during the musical number, "Step in Time" where they dance with Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael Banks throughout the sequence. "A nanny blacking up, chimney sweeps mocking the upper classes, grinning lamplighters turning work into song.The Chimney Sweeps, as their names imply, are a group of chimney sweeps whom Bert, Mary Poppins, Jane, and Michael encounter on the rooftops of London.
"Disney has long evoked minstrelsy for its topsy-turvy entertainments," Pollack-Pelzner writes.
The professor, who graduated from Yale University with a history degree in 2001 and earned his doctorate in English from Harvard University nine years later, also notes that “minstrel history” associated with blackface and racial commentary is not limited to “Mary Poppins.” He says it is “a mainstay” of Disney musicals, including the jiving blackbird in the 1941 film, “Dumbo,” and a 1933 Mickey Mouse short, “Mickey’s Mellerdrammer,” which parodies “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Pollack-Pelzner cautions, however, that the new film is “bound up in a blackface performance tradition” that persists throughout the “Mary Poppins” genre. He calls the new film “an enjoyably derivative film that seeks to inspire our nostalgia for the innocent fantasies of childhood, as well as the jolly holidays that the first ‘Mary Poppins’ film conjured for many adult viewers.” Pollack-Pelzner’s article comes as “Mary Poppins Returns” picked up four Academy Award nominations last week.
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