Editing Mary Poppins (film) (section)

=== Development ===
[[File:P.L. Travers - 50 Smith Street Chelsea London SW3 4EP.jpg|thumb|upright|Walt Disney's efforts to obtain the rights to ''Mary Poppins'' included travelling to Travers' home in London (''pictured'').]]
The film's main basis was the first novel in [[Mary Poppins (novel)|the ''Mary Poppins'' series]]. According to the 40th Anniversary DVD release of the film in 2004, Disney's daughters fell in love with the ''Mary Poppins'' books and made Disney promise to make a film based on them. He first attempted to purchase the film rights from [[P. L. Travers]] as early as 1938, but Travers repeatedly refused; she did not believe a film version would do justice to her books.

Disney was also then known primarily as a producer of animated films, and had yet to produce a major live-action work. For more than 20 years, he made periodic efforts to convince Travers to release the rights, including visiting her home in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Julia Llewellyn |title=Saving Mr Banks: the true story of Walt Disney's battle to make Mary Poppins |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/saving-mr-banks-true-story-walt-disneys-battle-make-mary-poppins/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=December 23, 2016 |orig-date=December 2013 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218051529/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/saving-mr-banks-true-story-walt-disneys-battle-make-mary-poppins/ |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> He finally succeeded in 1961, although Travers demanded and obtained script-approval rights. The [[Sherman Brothers]] composed the music score and were involved in the film's development, suggesting the setting be changed from the 1930s to the [[Edwardian era]]. Pre-production and music creation took about two years.