Anyways, Julie Andrews is great and the joke about the one legged man named Smith did make me giggle

a bad thing, ads have to give necessary information while dancing around dialogues and sound effects. They don’t often have the time to be verbose. The ad for Mary Poppins isn’t better or worst than others for this. It is just a choice made by the person who wrote it and I find it interesting.

an atmosphère through the vocabulary and phrasing. We are told about ST-Paul’s great hulk. Mr Banks trudges on his lonely way looking for all the world like a man on his way to his execution.
I’m used to ads being more straightforward, so that was a fun surprise. And being straightforward isn’t