"all written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Commander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumshus, the wealthy owner of a local confectionery factory. The car, a ""Paragon Panther"", was the sole production of the Paragon motor-car company before it went bankrupt. It is a four-seat touring car with an enormous bonnet, or hood. After the restoration is complete, the car is named for the noises made by its starter motor and the characteristic two loud backfires it makes when it starts. At first Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is"
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel ""Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car"". The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of films (also based on Ian Fleming novels). John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the"
"in the Merrion Centre, Leeds, the other on permanent display at the Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In the mid-1960s he was commissioned by Honeywell to create a mechanical computer, which he named ""The Forget-Me-Not Computer"". In 1968 he designed the elaborate inventions of Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke) for the film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In 1973 his water-powered musical clock, ""The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator"", was installed on the lower floor of the Victoria Centre, Nottingham, until 2010. In 2015 it was reinstalled, refurbished and in full working order, to a new location on the"
"The Roses of Success ""The Roses of Success"" is an ""up tempo"" song and musical number from the popular 1968 Cubby Broccoli motion picture, ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In the film it is sung when ""Grandpa Potts"" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to modify a car that floats or face the consequences. The other imprisoned inventors sing this song in the hopes that they might cheer up the despondent ""Grandpa"" who is cheered up and is singing along, but in the end the car collapses. The song is also featured prominently"
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song) ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" is an Academy Award nominated song from ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", the 1968 musical motion picture. In the film it is sung by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" is also featured prominently in ""Chitty the Musical"", which premiered in London at the Palladium in 2002 and on Broadway in 2005 at the newly refurbished Foxwoods Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre). The song is parodied in the ""South Park"" episode ""It Hits the Fan"" sung by Mr. Garrison and by Jim Carrey in """". A version"
"educational PC game was released in October, 1996 featuring the titular car where players have to solve puzzles to complete the game. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel ""Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car"". The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of"
"Truly Scrumptious (song) Truly Scrumptious is a song composed for the 1968 motion picture Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and later performed in its 2002/2005 ""stage adaptation"". The song was written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman. It is about the lead female character, Truly. The first time we hear the music to the song is when Truly (played by Sally Ann Howes in the film) motors up to the Potts' windmill with the children. It is later sung to her by Adrian Hall and Heather Ripley (as Jeremy and Jemima), the twin children of widower Caractacus Potts (played"
"suddenly he captures his own reflection and realizes how foolish he appears. It is only when Truly momentarily breaks character and shoves him slightly into the mirror to get his attention that he returns to his character. The clown properly courts the doll and is about to kiss the doll's hand, when she retracts her hand from him just in time. Rigidity wins out. Only at the end of the movie do Caractacus and Truly truly see eye to eye. Truly Scrumptious (song) Truly Scrumptious is a song composed for the 1968 motion picture Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and later"
"in the 2002 and 2005 stage musical versions of the film. In American TV broadcasts of the 1968 motion picture, this song is often cut to fit into the allotted, two-hour time slot. The other song that is sometimes alternatively cut is ""Lovely Lonely Man"". The Roses of Success ""The Roses of Success"" is an ""up tempo"" song and musical number from the popular 1968 Cubby Broccoli motion picture, ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In the film it is sung when ""Grandpa Potts"" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to modify a car"
"Alexander Doré Alexander Joseph Doré (28 August 1923 – 16 April 2002) was a British actor, television director and screenwriter perhaps best known for his appearance as the First Spy in the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."" He also co-starred in the 1968 TV series ""Virgin of the Secret Service"" (as villain Karl Von Brauner) as well as playing Bertram Bright in ""Bright's Boffins"" (1970-1972). Doré's other screen appearances include ""At the Stroke of Nine"" (1957), ""Tales from Dickens"" (1958), ""ITV Television Playhouse"" (1958), ""Emergency-Ward 10"" (1960), ""Dixon of Dock Green"" (1964), ""Casino Royale"" (1967), ""ITV Playhouse"" (1968), and"
"range from the celebrated Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway to the demented thingamabobs that made the 1968 movie ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" a minuscule classic."" Six ""Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang"" cars were created for the film, only one of which was fully functional. At a 1973 auction in Florida, one of them sold for $37,000, equal to $ today. The original ""hero"" car, in a condition described as fully functional and road-going, was offered at auction on 15 May 2011 by a California-based auction house. The car sold for $805,000, less than the $1–2 million it was expected to reach. It"
"Ken Hughes Kenneth Graham ""Ken"" Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001) was a British film director, writer and producer, who is best known as the co-writer and director of the children's film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" (1968). Hughes was born in Yates St, Toxteth, Liverpool. His family moved to London soon after. Hughes won an amateur film contest at age 14 and worked as a projectionist. When he was sixteen he went to work for the BBC as a technician and became a sound engineer. In 1941 he began making documentaries and short features. he made training films"
"the van. When Mr. Tooting refuses, the man becomes angry and demands the car. Mr. Tooting ends the call and tries to get the van to start. While he does, Jem notices two old lamps attached to a nearby billboard. When he inspects them, he finds the word ""Zborowski"" written on them; just like the engine. He and Mr. Tooting attached them to the car's grill, after which it starts up. As the family flies away, they notice the car makes a different sound, and decides to give it a name: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The following evening, Chitty runs"
"Nutty Putty but changed later due to marketing concerns. It is now called Silly Putty; it was actually one of the most sold items in 1949. James Wright (inventor) James Wright (March 25, 1874 – August 20, 1961) was an engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943. The invention of Bouncy Putty, later renamed Silly Putty, happened accidentally. During World War II, the United States couldn't obtain natural rubber from Asian suppliers, who gathered it from rubber trees. General Electric was trying to find a way to supply rubber for truck tires and soldiers boots. James Wright,"
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the vintage racing car which features in the book, musical film and stage production of the same name. Writer Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s, christened ""Chitty Bang Bang"". The original Chitty Bang Bang's engine was from a Zeppelin dirigible. The name reputedly derived either from the sound it made whilst idling, or from a bawdy song from World War I. Six versions of the car were built for the film and"
"storm tore the point of attachment of the mooring ropes, destroyed it totally. Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short"
"Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang was the informal name of a number of celebrated English racing cars, built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop in the 1920s, which inspired the book, film and stage musical ""Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang"". The Chittys were built in Canterbury, Kent and stored at Higham Park, Zborowski's country house at Bridge near Canterbury. The cars were so loud that Canterbury reportedly passed a by-law prohibiting them from entering within the city walls. The origin of the name ""Chitty Bang Bang"" is disputed, but may have been inspired by aeronautical engineer Letitia Chitty,"
"Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short and deep compared to typical rigid airships, with pointed ends above the centre"
"Mid-America Science Museum The Mid-America Science Museum is a science museum located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has more than 100 hands-on exhibits — both traveling and permanent exhibits. Many permanent exhibits were built in the early 1980s, such as a ""ball machine"" that hits billiard balls all around an elaborate track. Several of Rowland Emett's ""things"" (kinetic sculptures) have been at the museum since it opened, including ""The Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basketweave Mark Two Gentleman’s Flying Machine"", as well as several that appear in the film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" as inventions of that film's character Caractacus Potts. One of"
"Posh! ""Posh!"" is an up tempo song and musical number from the popular 1968 Albert R. Broccoli motion picture, ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". It is written by the songwriting team of Sherman & Sherman. It makes reference to the myth that the word ""posh"" is an acronym for ""Port Out, Starboard Home"". In the film it is sung when ""Grandpa Potts"" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is being carried away in his outhouse. He sees the situation as serendipitous until he finally meets his kidnapper, Baron Bombhurst in Vulgaria. The song is also featured prominently in the 2002 and 2005 stage"
"On ""Remembering Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke"", Van Dyke says that ""Me Ol' Bamboo"" was one of the most difficult dancing acts he ever undertook. In the film, Caractacus Potts does the dance to escape an angry victim of his malfunctioning hair-cutting machine. The dance involves the use of bamboo sticks as props. At the end of the dance, Potts collects enough money to buy Chitty. The song is a light-spirited song about different men and their various usages of cane-like apparatuses. Songwriter/lyricist Robert B. Sherman was inspired to write the song by his own use of"
"dotty old inventor Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) to create an invisibility device. The first test subject for this machine is Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce), a department store model who had been fired from her previous job. The machine proves quite successful, and Kitty uses her invisible state to pay back her sadistic former boss, Mr. Growley (Charles Lane). While the Professor and the invisible Kitty are off visiting the lodge of the millionaire Russell, the gangster Blackie Cole (Oscar Homolka) sends in his gang of moronic thugs (including Shemp Howard) to steal the device. With the machine back at their"
"Chitty Bang Bang, a chain-driven customised Mercedes with a 23-litre 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine. Fleming had seen the car's owner, Count Louis Zborowski race at the Brooklands race track. The origin of the name ""Chitty Bang Bang"" is disputed, but may also have been inspired by early aeronautical engineer Letitia Chitty. Like Zborowski, Fleming names his car because of the noise it made—and the noise a car made was important to Fleming. As he wrote the novel, Fleming used aspects of his life to flesh out the details, much as he did with many of his Bond stories. Thus, in the"
"the comedian at Pinewood Studios as he completed dubbing work for the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In the 1940s and 50s, Unwin had developed ""Unwinese"", a nonsense language that distorted words and phrases into a form of gibberish, that sounded unintelligible but which in fact retained some fragments of meaning. Recalling Unwin's radio and television performances, Anderson thought that the self-made language would suit the character of an eccentric undercover operative, and could produce humour if demonstrated to have a confusing effect on enemies. He elaborated, ""As far as I was concerned, Stanley came first and then the"
"(Cassidy) watches over the town. She is also an avid doll collector. Trooper Butch Duggan (Ashton) is Merrill's liaison with the state police, and shows little respect for the small-town sheriff. As Anderson and Gardner unearth more of the object, the local townspeople begin to undergo subtle changes. Insomnia becomes common, along with rudimentary telepathy. Some individuals begin inventing wild gadgets using kitchen tools, batteries, small appliances, and other odds and ends. Some of the inventions include an automatic letter sorter, a telepathic typewriter, and a BLT sandwich maker that creates the sandwiches from the raw ingredients. These inventions have"
"Truly Scrumptious Truly Scrumptious is a fictional character in the ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" film and stage production based on the children's novel of the same name by author Ian Fleming. In the film the character is portrayed by Sally Ann Howes, after it was declined by Julie Andrews. Truly Scrumptious develops a romantic relationship with the widower Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke). The character does not appear in the original book, in which Caractacus is married to Mimsie Pott (the surname as spelled in the book). The filmmakers felt that a budding romantic relationship would serve the"
"Michael Darbyshire Michael Darbyshire (15 October 1917 – 20 November 1979) was an English television actor most famous for his portrayal of Hubert Davenport, the Victorian ghost in the long-running BBC TV children's comedy series ""Rentaghost"". The series continued after Darbyshire's death. He also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", and appeared in the musical ""Pickwick"" (1965) and in the TV adaptation ""Pickwick"" for the BBC in 1969. He was also a prominent member of The Players Theatre Company based in London in Villiers Street, appearing regularly and also on many occasions"
"Lord Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Such appearances included the St Trinian's films (""The Belles of St Trinian's"", ""Blue Murder at St Trinian's"", and ""The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery"") as Manton Bassett, a civil servant who was the Deputy Director of Schools in the Ministry of Education, where he was often seen frowning and expressing indignation at the outrageous behaviour of other characters. To American audiences, Wattis is probably best known for his performance as the British civil servant Northbrook in ""The Prince and the Showgirl"" (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as"
"and intelligent man, but not especially physically strong. In the 1988 parody film ""Without a Clue"", the roles of a witless Watson and an extremely intelligent Holmes are reversed. In the film, Holmes (Michael Caine) is an invention of Watson (Ben Kingsley) played by an alcoholic actor; when Watson initially offers suggestions on how to solve a case to some visiting policemen, he is at the time applying for a post in an exclusive medical practice, and so invents the fictional Holmes to avoid attracting attention to himself, continuing the ""lie"" of Holmes's existence after he fails to get the"
"James Wright (inventor) James Wright (March 25, 1874 – August 20, 1961) was an engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943. The invention of Bouncy Putty, later renamed Silly Putty, happened accidentally. During World War II, the United States couldn't obtain natural rubber from Asian suppliers, who gathered it from rubber trees. General Electric was trying to find a way to supply rubber for truck tires and soldiers boots. James Wright, an engineer at General Electric, was working with silicone oil-a clear, gooey compound composed of silicon bonded to several other elements. By substituting silicon for carbon,"
"assignment came with Albert R. Broccoli's motion picture production ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" for United Artists in 1968, which garnered the brothers their third Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for its particularly memorable titular song. In 1970, the Shermans returned to Disney for a brief stint where they completed work on ""The Aristocats"" and ""Bedknobs and Broomsticks"". The latter film garnered the brothers their fourth and fifth Oscar nominations. 1972 saw the release of ""Snoopy Come Home"", for which the brothers received a Grammy nomination. In 1973, the Sherman Brothers also made history by becoming the only Americans"
"eludes the man by joining a song-and-dance act. He becomes the centre of the show and earns enough in tips to buy the car and rebuild it. They name the car ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" for the unusual noise of its engine. In the first trip in the car, Caractacus, the children, and Truly picnic on the beach. Caractacus tells them a tale about nasty Baron Bomburst, the tyrant of fictional Vulgaria, who wants to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. As Potts tells his story, the quartet and the car are stranded by high tide and are attacked by pirates"
"and Promotions Commission. Mid-America Science Museum The Mid-America Science Museum is a science museum located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has more than 100 hands-on exhibits — both traveling and permanent exhibits. Many permanent exhibits were built in the early 1980s, such as a ""ball machine"" that hits billiard balls all around an elaborate track. Several of Rowland Emett's ""things"" (kinetic sculptures) have been at the museum since it opened, including ""The Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basketweave Mark Two Gentleman’s Flying Machine"", as well as several that appear in the film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" as inventions of that film's character Caractacus"