I particularly liked the two scenes when mocked-up old newspapers are shown. It seemed a little overlong to me and the ballet sequences a little repetitive but otherwise it was a very impressive film. As an adult, my view of the film was very different from when I saw it as a child. However, today () I was able to see the film in its entirety for the first time since 1971, when the British TV channel 'Talking Pictures' screened it. The next time I saw the film was on TV in the 1980's although on that occasion I only caught the last five minutes or so, but this confirmed that I had correctly remembered the Miss Tiggywinkle shot at the end. The only image that stuck in my mind from that occasion though, was the final shot at the end when Miss Tiggywinkle runs across a meadow and disappears into the distance. This was the almost certainly the first film I saw in the cinema, which would have been in the spring or summer of 1971, when I turned 8 in June of that year.
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