Movie Substrate · Film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
★ 7.0 · 1,024 ratings on TMDB
You'll beWITCHED! You'll beDAZZLED! You'll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
DirectorRobert Stevenson
The emergence reading
Bedknobs and Broomsticks keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing magic, war, family, fantasy, adventure.
zero-distanceUSmagicwarfamilyfantasyadventure
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)E8 · family, magic
DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)E8 · adventure, family
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)E8/E10 · magic, war
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)E8/E10 · adventure, fantasy
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)E8/E10 · family, war
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)E8/E10 · family, warSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
