But the makeshift populist politics of the movie, in which the working-class figures enlighten the others and then discreetly vanish, comes in second to its hallucinatory aesthetic : the combination of live action, music-hall numbers, animation, stop-action, stop-motion, wirework, Disney's elaborate audio-animatronics, and set design that combined images from Monet and Broadway's candy colors . ( Julie Andrews'husband at the time, Tony Walton, was the film's visual consultant and designed the costumes .)
