Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical film loosely produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. The film's script is by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes and its songs by the Sherman Brothers. The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award.[3]
It stars Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts, Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts, James Robertson Justice as Lord Scrumptious and Robert Helpmann as The Childcatcher. The film was directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli (co-producer of the James Bond series of films, also based on Fleming's novels). John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the musical numbers were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood.
Appearences in EDP Projects[]
- The Truth about Vampires Suck The entire video critically satirizes the films of Friedberg and Seltzer by using a clip from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, specifically, the scene where the Child Catcher lures out and captures the children. The voices were dubbed over with AniMat impersonating them.
- Animation Lookback: Hanna-Barbara in part 5, when talking about his second Honorable Mention, Charlotte's Web, the film is mentioned as one of many other projects that had songs and music written by the Sherman Brothers, who did the songs for Hanna-Barbara's Charlotte's Web. At the mention, the film's poster appears onscreen alongside ones for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, It's a Small World, and Journey into Imagination.