J.M. Barrie, in his script for the first film version of his play, Peter Pan (1924), personally supervised by him, wanted to include highly sophisticated special effects, which unfortunately could not be accomplished at the time. One of them was a fairy wedding from his follow-up novel 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'. He wrote that "this should be an elaborate and beautiful picture of some length, one of the prettiest in the film". He suggested fairies suddenly appearing from under big leaves, holding a ball and forming a circle, waltzing around, accompanied by the sound of bells. His idea was finally realized in this film, with a fitting triple-meter score by James Newton Howard, carried by the bell-like tones of keyboard, harp and celesta.

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