The genius of the opening sequence for this movie is terribly underappreciated. If you pay attention, the musical themes that play throughout the overture sync up perfectly with the credits as well as the imagery...and it all comes together so naturally and doesn't feel like it is at all on purpose. For example, near the beginning the theme for "Eglantine" plays right when Angela Lansbury is credited, and we see her character depicted in the "tapestry". Later, the "Beautiful Briny" theme enters when the animation credits begin, with Ward Kimball (the animation director) cleverly suggested as the "king" of the animals/animators, his "subjects" appearing in the next frame. Two serenading troubadours, representing the Sherman brothers (composer and lyricist, respectively) appear on screen for their credits as the score turns toward the medieval, and in the next frame we see their "supporting players", that is, the credit for the arranger and conductor of the film's score. As the music swells, becoming increasingly more regal -- now, the image of dancing fauns and maidens accompany the choreographer's credit -- it reaches an exciting and shocking climax: The medieval revelry ends, and the 20th century comes crashing in. The joyfully rousing "Substitutiary Locomotion" theme enters triumphantly, playing against the most jarring image in the "tapestry" so far -- the imposing German u-boat, metallic and unnatural, flag waving, speeding toward the English coast. The effect is thrilling, and I get chills every time. This is a rare film where the opening sequence itself is a piece of art, even if the proceeding film itself is fairly standard. Whoever put this together deserved an award (and I hope they got one!).

This has to be one of the greatest opening credit sequences in the world.

One of my favorite films from Disney ❤️💕

Songs I was able to identify in this overture: 0:56 - The Age of Not Believing (?) 1:21 - ??? 1:42 - The Beautiful Briny Sea 2:01 - Portabello Road 2:27 - Substitutiary Locomotion

When I was just a child. I used replay this opening all over. At 2:28 -- 2:51

I love that intro with medieval drawings

This was my favourite film throughout my childhood. I still have it on DVD and I still love it just as much:)

I liked the artwork in this opening sequence as a kid, but I wasn't aware of the fact that it was cleverly imitating the art style of the Bayeux Tapestry, even having such Easter eggs as the Tapestry's depiction of Halley's Comet, which is reinterpreted as the football that the animals are forming a tower to intercept! Pure genius!

Le générique du début laisse entrevoir tous les chapitres du film et surtout la fin génial sans tuer personne

2:51 - 3:22 Gives me the chills!

One of best openings ever!!! Up there with Mary Poppins and Wizard of Oz

I always thought that the medieval imagery seen in the opening was a prophecy of the events that would come to happen in the film's storyline.

1:41 to 2:00 is my favorite part. That Beautiful Briny Sea melody mixed with that eerie instrument used in The Jungle Book. Glorious!

Oh my goodness, I didn´t remember this most beautiful opening, thank you so much for uploading it here, it was one of the lifemarkers in my childhhood, even being here in Brazil, and I'm sure to many other kids of my generation all over the world who were lucky to watch it back then! I must download this :-)

Absolutely love this movie. Fantastic. Will never ever tire of it

For me, the greatest Disney life action ever!

As much as I love films like Frozen and Tangled, I really think they lack the sort of Disney atmosphere, if that makes sense? Some recent Disney films have had it, but I honestly think they can't compare to the classics like this...

The intro as a kid creeped me out. Come to think of it, the movie creeped me out. Still very enjoyable!

j'adore une très bonne musique qui me rappelle que de bon souvenir :)

0:56 is always going to be my favourite and a total child hood memory

Same here it has brought me back this memory while I have watched this since I was a teenager … It has always brings me back this best memory …. I have always loved watching Miss Eglantine Price ( Angela Lansbury -96/97 ) she is the best character of mine … She is the best Witch-In-Training … She is the best character of mine …. It has always brings me back the best memory …Because she is the best character of mine and I have supported her every step of my way. She will always be Miss Eglantine Price, Mrs .Potts and Ms Jessica Fletcher ( Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971) #RestInPeaceMsLansbury 1933-2022 😢😢

Absolutely

This beautiful movie made my imagination even more colorful and the autism more bearable :) 1:08 💛

0:37 from that moment to the TITLE.... MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SIMPLY LOVE IT!!!!!!!

Different between of Christmas and Normal Favourites which is "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (Disney Animation and Live Action sets Film) and "Santa's Pocket Watch" (Pete Parsons Studios Cartoon Animations of Southern Arts) in 1971 and 1980 which is absolutely my favourites on my own and these are mine and of course I got them on DVDs.

I love the u boat so much!!! It looks so good

Disney's all time great epic film.

If you notice it's supposed to be like the bayeaux tapestry

RIP Angela Lansbury 1925-2022

Гениальный опенинг, однако! Спасибо что опубликовали отрывок из фильма, особенно с качественным звуком.

I remember m3 an my mum would watch this while wrapped in a duvet on the sofa eating biscuits. And i remember saying to my mum i want a nob like rhat for xmas lol

From 1:42 to 2:25 is my absolute favorite part, from this whole opening intro. The music and everything! Anyone else?

Le auguro la buonanotte professoressa Florio grazie professoressa delle lezioni al liceo

Grazie papà, mamma, Floriana e Serena di tutto

They don't make movies this good or with this special Disney feel anymore. I'm sad that kids today don't know something like this.

When I was small, watching this on VHS, I absolutely loved it - but I was terrified of all the suits of armour coming alive at the end. I would shout "the suits! The suits!" and run out of the room...

2:00 - 2:28 is absolutely my favourite part. Sublime composing and delivery by the conductor and orchestra.

No greater British film. Whoever thought to include the Bayeux Tapestry was a genius and more so a true Brit. Do not forget, we are Norman, and Anglo Saxon. That's enough.

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury David Tomlinson

Back when all the credits were at the beginning of the movie.

There should really be a nod to Irwin Kostal (the conductor) as well.

1:36 to 1:41 is that bagpipes making that screechy sound? I fuckin love it! Plus that little elated musical break at 2:10 to 2:30 is so joyful I love it! Along with the rest of this fantastical movie!!!

Love the opening titles

This always will be the best film I saw in the whole world!

My childhood:")

Is that a bass flute playing the main melody at 01:44?

Who here in 2024

Quando mamma ai tempi dell'asilo mi vestivi da Jolly

THis was the first time I ever went to a cinema. Love it, just regrettably that the modern versions of it are all cut., mostly because no one seemed to have taken good care of the originals It is said they are all damaged

I love the opening! :)

Still Beter then frozen

Quando mesi fa ti ho visto qui a Ferrara in centro e mi hai pure salutato portavi un giubbotto di pelle nera medico dello sport di Arezzo

Only In Theaters December 13, 1971

I've thought of a plot for a spiritual successor. "Magic Doorknobs and Flying Vacuums ". Taking place in the 90s in balkan eastern europe (could even do this as modern day ukraine since it's a very similar situation as BK&BST), a woman fosters a group of 3 siblings. she is a home grown witch, wanting to rebel against the occupation, as she learns her practice from an old tome she recently found. The children snoop the house and bust their hostess casting a spell to see what's happening in the rebellion (or war front). Additionally, she can't travel to the occupation zone, as she can't get her vacuum to fly properly because the hose keeps getting clogged. to keep her secret, she enchants a door knob that easily comes off the attic door with a warp spell similar to the bed of BK&BST. having to take care of the children, she is in search of the gentleman that the book dealer said that the tome came from. The gentleman is actually a recent university graduate who's father was a murdered sorcerer. With aligned goals, the graduate, the witch and the three children search for the other lost books, which were in a very heavily guarded state library taken over by either hostile occupation. after finding the books, the group is hassled by soldiers, and the youngest child thinks quickly as she realizes the knob screws onto a bolt of a drawer of a very large library table. she sets the path to a mystical land that she read in a book of fairytales she found in the library. they flee, without the graduate, who luckily escapes the building. The spell works on the table, only for the table to break as they land in a forest. they meet a sorceress who tries to trick them promising the main character to trade spells. The sorceress captures them, and her apprentice betrays the sorceress as the group again flees, this time on a carriage, and yes the knob somehow fits onto a screw in thee carriage. the apprentice somehow makes it into their world, only for everyone to find that chaos has broken out and the city is under siege or strict curfew. The apprentice helps the main character witch with her plan by teaching her a new spell. She also found a new vacuum from her neighbor's abandoned house. Surprise, the graduate was at the witch's home, looking for her and the children. United, the graduate, main character and apprentice go off to enchant mannequins, kitchen equipment and uniforms from stores & a local war museum to attack & scare off the occupiers. After the success, the main character tries to send the apprentice home, to no avail. The next morning, the news states that the occupiers have left. With nowhere to go, the apprentice becomes the main character's apprentice, and the main character adopts the children. The film starts to hint that they will live happily ever after, but then a cliffhanger, perhaps an airstrike siren goes off, and the apprentice and the witch look at each other, and say "let's go".

First and thanks for the nostalgia

I would like to see a Broadway stage version of Bedknobs, with Angela Lansbury recreating the title role.

Buongiorno professoressa Florio e buon inizio settimana

Io, di questo film, mi ricordo solo l'inizio (e non il calcio, per cortesia!!!) e mi è venuto in mente...un gioco!

That movie was made since my mother, Catherine Payn was 2 years old

Me trae bonito recuerdo

Buonanotte alle famiglie Franciosa eh ragazzi Marco è bellissimo

Buonanotte Ivan Morelli

Ciao a tutti gli stregoni

Quando al liceo studiavo nel triennio la letteratura inglese

i love this movie

I loved this one it was funny may she rest in peace

Buonanotte Floriana

Grazie Ivan Morelli che al caffè Venezia in via Venezia a Pescara nel 2014 mi hai detto cose sugli ebrei che non sapevo

A 1971 film set during the 2nd world war around August 1940. From Joe. X

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Grazie di tutto Ivan

Buonanotte professoressa Florio

Buonanotte Marco

I have this entire song burned into my memory. I like how the opening is able to touch on different parts of the story but artsy enough to not give anything away. Maybe the Nazi part though...

Ti auguro una buona serata Antonella Di Tonno

This film made me a Eurosceptic from early childhood.

Buonanotte professoressa Solimando

Everything proven vhs tapes don't stop playing at all it doesn't have picture quality problem's at all it's the people who is the problem

Buonanotte Nicoula l'uomo che vorrebbe che portassi la barba

As Seen on Family Classics with Dean Richards

Buongiorno Iana

Buonanotte Antonella Di Tonno

tapiserie de Bayeux in da house!

My buddy Brian Slott says to me Go back to the farm Sheep When I baa like a sheep

Buonanotte alle famiglie Franciosa

1971

Une suite de l apprentie sorcière pour Disney est il prévue pourquoi pas la fille d églantine price ou sa petite fille ce serait genial

Esta peli la mire cuendo era pequeño me gustaria saber en que canar la podria encontar completa

After the success of Mary Poppins, this was sort of the sequel. Very entertainng Disney family movie.

Un film che dal punto di vista storico non ho capito molto bene mi farebbe molto piacere Ivan Morelli rivedere questo film con te

Buonanotte medico dello sport di Arezzo se stai lavorando a quest'ora di notte ti auguro buon lavoro

Ah ma questo film l'ha girato Robert Stevenson il regista del film Herbie il maggiolino sempre più matto

Cant believe walt was not around

Ciao Ivan Morelli

Quando Marco mi hai fatto vedere in foto il tuo gatto nero

Ti auguro un buon lunedì sera Antonella Di Tonno

Dio Santo che tristezza la gente che per il mio aspetto mi paragona sempre ad un nazista della seconda guerra mondiale pure con questo film

Se sei già sveglia Antonella Di Tonno ti do il buongiorno e ti auguro un buon inizio settimana

What about sound start at 0.31? Help me please

Is there any meaning to the red letters?