![]() ![]() It is sung by Bert, the chimney sweep ( Dick Van Dyke) and the other chimney sweeps on the rooftops of London. 1 The choreography for this song was provided by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. Many more pictures relating to kitchens can be found the Look and Learn picture library. ' Step in Time ' is a song and dance number from Walt Disney 's 1964 film Mary Poppins which was composed by the Sherman Brothers. This unusual picture shows one such German Master sweep on the job in the kitchen, while the cook looks on. In Germany, however, the Master sweeps never employed boys they belonged to a mediaeval-style guild and as a consequence their fabled profession was regarded with great respect and regard. The rousing 'Step in Time' sequence, in which chimney sweeps parade across the rooftops of London, calls for one sweep to do a rousing march upside down 18 feet above the stage. Sweeps have featured in many children’s books, such as The Water Babies and Mary Poppins, and in the Nineteenth century philanthropists and social reformers were tireless in their aim to raise the age limit for boy sweeps. Fire brigades were of course yet to be established. ![]() This identification with good fortune was directly related to the fact that they helped to save lives, since before chimney sweeping became common, many lives were lost to frequent and dangerous house-fires. In England the chimney sweep became associated with two contradictory notions he was thought to be heartless and cruel to his boy apprentice, but a bringer of good luck to the householder with one sooty handshake. As an adult chimney sweep, you wouldnt climb chimneys, but you would have to work in. Chimney sweeps came to prominence during the Industrial revolution, but before that the expansion of Europe’s capitals in the late Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries had seen a huge increase in the number of private houses with fireplaces and chimney stacks. Despite all the chim-chim-cher-eeing of Bert in Mary Poppins. ![]()
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