this be an old fashion and wonderfully fun child movie with surely the most appealing novice witch ever . unlike many modern story which seem to revel in dark witchcraft and this be simply a magical tale of hocus pocus that be cute and light hearted and and charm . the tale be set back in 1940 in the english village of pepper eye and where three cockney child and charlie and carrie and and paul rollins and be be evacuate out of danger from world war ii city air raid . they be mistakingly send to live with eglantine price and who be study by correspondence course to become an apprentice witch . eglantine and the trio of child use a magic bed knob in order to travel to london on their flying bed . here they encounter emilius browne and the fraudulent headmaster of miss price witchcraft training correspondence school . miss price set about work on spell design to bring inanimate object to life . meanwhile and they must also deal with a shady character call the bookman and his associate and swinburne . angela lansbury be of course marvelously endear a the eccentric witch in training and miss price . david tomlinson play mr. browne and headmaster of the defunct witchcraft school and who have now turn street magician . this actor be previously cast a the child father in the movie mary poppins . in fact and this film be a tale quite reminiscent of the early mary poppins and both wonderful fantasy story for child . perhaps this movie doesn not have quite such memorable music a chim chim cheree and but it do boast some appeal little tune . some have be critical and but the movie feature excellent special effect . all in all and the story be enchant family entertainment . it a pity if modern child be too sophisticated for this lovely and bewitching tale and which should appeal to the child in all of u .