I was first introduced to the wonders of the penguin when I saw my father and uncle's iconic movie musical, Mary Poppins. My father once told me that, while writing Poppins, he had suggested that the waiters could be dressed as penguins, to which Walt Disney added, that the waiters could actually BE penguins! No one in the room understood what Walt meant at the time. 52 years after the film, Mary Poppins was released though, we now know what Walt had in mind - the penguins would be animated.Happy #internationalpenguinday everyone! Here are my penguins Parker, Presley, Puck and Pewcey from @lovebirdsmusic pic.twitter.com/qJL9HUMHIS
— Robert Sherman (@RobbieSherman) April 25, 2016
I wasn't born when Mary Poppins first premiered, but that film (and the penguin sequence in particular) would prove highly influential to me creatively speaking. More on that in my next blog…