just
found out that this musical movie i saw several moons ago was in fact
loosely based on ian fleming's novel chitty-chitty-bang-bang: the
magical car, film script by roald dahl.
'Ian Fleming
is best-known as the creator of one of the best-selling literary works
of all time: the James Bond series.
A few years after the birth of his
son Caspar in 1952, Fleming decided to write a children’s book for him,
but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
didn’t see light of day until 1964, the year Fleming died.
It tells the
story of the Potts family and the father figure, Caractacus, who uses
money from the invention of a special candy to buy and repair a unique,
magical former race car, which the family affectionately names Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang.
Fleming’s inspiration came from a series of aero
engines built by racing driver and engineer Count Louis Zborowski in the
early 1920s, whose first six-cylinder Maybach aero engine was called
Chitty Bang Bang.
The original book was beautifully illustrated in black-and-white by John Burningham and was soon adapted into the 1968 classic film of the same name starring Dick Van Dyke. '
the above description is courtesy the marginalian.org
