First shot of animation: birds swoop by at the top of the Jolly Holiday number.

Julie Andrews is practically perfect in every way, and nobody has thrown their entire body into being entertaining like Dick Van Dyke. One era-defining performance in a movie is magical, two at once is legendary.

The visual design is extraordinary. Light, color, the oppressive weight of space, every single matte painting, the establishment shot where Mr Banks is about to be fired that looks like a council of vampires. Some composite shots weren’t great, with one element about 10% bigger than it should be. Bert becomes huge in the floating tea party.

This series is following the feature animation studio’s work and, it’s fine. A serviceable backdrop for Julie and Dick to glide across. I like the penguins.

More explicit stuff about Empire than I remembered. The American Revolution was the last crisis at the bank, which invests in African railways and tea plantations. The fox being hunted having a thick Irish accent, in a movie released just before The Troubles, is a choice. But he gets rescued by Bert, and every scene with working class and poor people shows them as worthy and interesting (except the scary homeless woman in the escape from the bank).

Mr Banks gets his job back by murdering a guy and that says some things about the Dawes family.