Chimney sweep being in the book series "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers and the Walt Disney film adaptation which has an extended dance sequence in which the jovial workers celebrate the end of the workday with fearless acrobatics. Their leader, "Bert", played by Dick van Dyke, sings "Chim Chim Cher-ee" which won the Oscar for "Best Song" in 1965. The chorus refers to the traditional association of chimney sweeps with good luck: ""Good luck will rub off when I shake 'ands with you, or blow me a kiss ... and that's lucky too"". The novel "Die schwarzen Brüder" ("The Black Brothers"),
David Seymour (photographer) in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Chim was born to Polish Jewish parents in Warsaw in 1911. David had a sister, Eileen, who was three years older. Their parents were Regina and Benjamin Szymin, a respected publisher of Yiddish and Hebrew books. In 1914 Chim and his parents emigrated to Odessa just as World War I had begun. In 1919 they returned to Warsaw. Chim studied graphic arts in Leipzig and then traveled to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. It was while Chim was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris that he became interested in photography. He began