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His 1973 water-powered musical clock The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator can still be seen in Nottingham.įor the film, he designed a series of machines, including the Humbug Major Sweet Machine, Clockwork Lullaby, the Little Dragon Carpet Sweeper and Hot Air Rocking Chair. The miniature railway was ridden by more than two million people in Battersea Park that year. Emett, who drew cartoons for Punch magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, rose to fame during the 1951 Festival of Britain, when he created a real-life version of his cartoon “Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway”. The fictional character of inventor Caractacus Potts was reminiscent of Rowland Emett, who worked on the technical aspects of the film. This was the hardest dance number I ever did.” “Most of the dancers were 15 years younger than me and it took us 23 takes to get it right.

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“The bamboo sticks had metal poles inside and we had to jump over them and dance with them,” Van Dyke, who was 41 at the time, said in a TV documentary about the making of the film. Van Dyke said that the hardest song to perform was “Me Ol’ Bamboo”, a Morris dancing-based tune devised around Sherman’s memories of England, when he had used a bamboo walking stick.

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The showstopping tunes for the film included the Oscar-nominated title song, plus “Truly Scrumptious”, “Toot Sweets” and “Hushabye Mountain”. They became two of the most famous composers in Hollywood, winning two Oscars for Mary Poppins.Ĭhitty Chitty Bang Bang was their first score outside of the Disney empire. When Sherman returned to America in the 1940s, his father Al, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had written hits for Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, challenged Robert and his brother Richard to try to earn a living writing songs. “If you look carefully, you’ll notice that in some places we are driving through vineyards and it doesn’t look much like the English countryside,” admitted Dick Van Dyke. One solution was to shoot scenes in the Cote D’Azur.

However, the English weather during filming in July 1967 lived up to its unpredictable reputation. Some of the race scenes were set in Box Hill in Surrey. The Cobstone windmill on the hill where Grandpa Potts, Caractacus and his children Jemima and Jeremy live is near the charming Buckinghamshire village of Turville. Scenes in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were shot in parts of England’s most beautiful countryside and the sites have since become tourist destinations for fans of the film. Some of the English countryside was French “I was in the last scene with all these kids, but I had this pristine white bandage round my head because I had this big cyst on the side.” Cubby Broccoli’s daughter Barbara – who was seven at the time – was also an extra in a fairground scene and, unsurprisingly, her scene was not cut.Ĥ. “I can see why I wasn’t in the final cut,” Collins later said. His scene was edited out, because the director did not like the unsightly bandage near his eye. At 16, he was cast as an extra in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as one of the Vulgarian children who storm the castle at the end of the film.