8mm Forum: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on June 01, 2012, 05:15 PM:

Last week came across the "Blu-ray" version and its brilliant. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from 1968 must be one of the most well known and famous car ever. The quality of the Blu-ray in both picture and sound is excellent and is well worth getting. Its timeless fun [Smile]

I can hear all of you thinking the "tune"...Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....and so on and on...catchy eh! [Big Grin]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 01, 2012, 08:31 PM:

Better that than "It's a small world" (after all...)

I lived well into adulthood without ever seeing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", then I got 1) a child and 2) A minivan.

Even after that I only heard it for months because it was playing on the video screen in the back seat of the minivan and I was driving it. Eventually the tape came in the house and I actually saw it.

-Up until then it was if Dick Van Dyke had a radio show!

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on June 01, 2012, 10:39 PM:

I have a 16mm flat print of Chitty. Love those Sherman Brothers songs.....
Very interesting that the James Bond folks wanted to make a musical for children!

Doug

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 02, 2012, 12:05 PM:

...and yet it still has an awesome custom car, a bad guy with an accent and a gorgeous (albeit virginal) woman!

"No Professor Potts, I vant you to die!"

When my son was watching this basically daily (he was three at the time) I tried to find something "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" on Super-8. He'll be ten this summer and I still haven't seen a thing.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on June 02, 2012, 12:13 PM:

The book was written by Ian Fleming and the rights to make the film were sold with the James Bond rights.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on June 02, 2012, 03:28 PM:

I'm almost sure there was a promo reel released of this film
Steve,as for seeing the movie,like "The Sound of Music" I think
I've won,so far and remained blissfully unaware.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 02, 2012, 04:26 PM:

-Plus Gert Fröbe played both Baron Bomburst und Auric Goldfinger.

I guess Sean Connery as Professer Potts just wasn't meant to be!

Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on June 02, 2012, 10:04 PM:

And of course, the screenplay by Roald Dahl, who also wrote the screenplay for "You Only Live Twice"....and Ken Adam on production design....and Desmond Llewelyn makes a brief appearance, of course. Anyone ever see the stage play? It sent me straight back to my childhood!

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on June 08, 2012, 10:09 AM:

Steve,

Thunderbird Films released a Super 8mm trailer for Chitty.

Doug

Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on June 08, 2012, 11:18 AM:

Sorry Doug,it isn't the song I have in my head,its D V Dykes accent,hilarious absolutely bloody hilarious,(no offence meant to our American cousins)

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on June 08, 2012, 12:51 PM:

They sure did Doug Trailer reel#174 ; CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG,
STORY OF ROBIN HOOD, PETER PAN, DAVY CROCKET-KING OF THE
WILD FRONTIER.

Posted by Colin Robert Hunt (Member # 433) on June 08, 2012, 02:36 PM:

They did but the quality of Thunderbird releases was not good. This reel was not bad at all and have this in my collection.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on June 09, 2012, 01:34 PM:

Hi Colin,did you get your thunderbird reels from Regent Film
in Blackpool ?

Posted by Colin Robert Hunt (Member # 433) on June 09, 2012, 02:26 PM:

Hugh no, I bought the reel off the bring and buy stall on one of the conventions proberly late 70's. The Chitty trailer is not full length, but the others are. Very good quality print for Thunderbird release. Regent films was a great place to buy films and have had many seconhand prints from them. The one's that I still have is the Sherlock Holmes reel that is a production short for The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes. Very good short, and the Scrooge production trailer for the 1970 version. Again full marks and very good prints on both. I do miss Regent Films.

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