Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (English Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ) is the title of a children's book by English writer Ian Fleming, who wrote the book for his son Caspar. It was illustrated by John Burningham and published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in publisher Random House. The German language translation of Ursula von Wiese appeared 1965/1966 in two volumes under the titles Chitty Chitty - bang - bang -. The adventures of a miracle car and Chitty Chitty - bang - bang -. The New Adventures of Wonder cars. These books also contained Burninghams illustrations. These have been in later editions replaced by drawings of Dietrich Lange.
The inspiration for the book was written by the real Chitty Bang Bang Racing Car of Count Louis Zborowski, who based on a Mercedes chassis, with Maybach and Mercedes aircraft engines of a cylinder capacity 15-27 liters, has built these cars, built and drove around 1920 car race with these true monsters. Engine start-up within city limits was prohibited due to the volume.
Action
Caractacus Pott, a UK- inventor of all sorts, but mostly not very profitable small stuff has finally earned the sale of the invention of a new lozenges can be used as a whistle some money. From this he buys a once very successful race car from the junkyard, to back it up. During the renovation shows that the accident in his last race green classic car has a will of its own and apparently self-healing.
After weeks of tinkering, the inventor Pott leads the car to his family: The starter noise " Chitty Chitty " and two small " Bang! Bang! " Misfires are the first sounds that produced the car at the start, and they also give him immediately his name. Because of the beautiful weather, a picnic basket packed and start the journey to the sea. However, as countless other motorists had the same idea, they find themselves in a giant traffic jam, which makes impossible the timely arrival of the sea. In a dashboard button lights up the Mr. Pott draws what the car is transformed into a flying car with which they fly over the jam to a large sandbar on the English Channel. The picnic is eaten, and then sets it down in the sun.
The incoming tide raises all rudely: Since the remaining beach is not sufficient to start the flying cars to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang transformed again, this time in a floating car to take the family across the Channel to France. After landing, they found in a cave a camp with weapons and explosives, which they chase after thinking into the air, after which they make themselves from the dust.
The gangsters, where the camp was obviously trying to stop the fugitives, but the Potts escape with the help of Chitty Chitty Baeng. Night at the hotel succeeds the gangsters to kidnap the two children of the Potts and escape with them to Paris. There they want to use the children to rob the famous sweet shop of Monsieur Bon Bon. However, the kids get wind of it and they manage to alert the shopkeeper.
Meanwhile, the parents have noticed the kidnapping and are already, also arrived by Chitty Chitty Baeng ability to follow tracks in Paris. They meet just one, as the gangsters try to escape with her car from the crime scene: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang rammed the gangster car, and the police collects the criminals.
As a reward, Monsieur Bon Bon tells the children the top-secret recipe of his famous candy. Family Pott flies with the wonder car to an unknown destination for new adventures it.
Adaptations
The novel was processed in 1968 in a musical film based on a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, in the Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious play the leading roles, while Gert Frobe in a supporting role to the child -hating Baron embodies. Ken Hughes also led thereby directing, and Albert R. Broccoli, a producer of the James Bond series based on the novels of Ian Fleming known, produced the film. Songs and music created the brothers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; for the musical director Irwin Kostal recorded responsible.
2002 was compiled by Michael Ball a stage production.
Expenditure
- Ian Fleming: Chitty Chitty - Bang - Bang -. The adventures of a miracle Cars ( Original Title: Chitty Chitty - Bang-Bang, the Magical Car). With drawings by Dietrich Lange. German by Ursula von Wiese. 10th edition. Maier, Ravensburg 1980, 139 pp., ISBN 3-473-39137-9
- Ian Fleming: Chitty Chitty - bang - bang - (Original Title: Chitty Chitty - Bang-Bang ). Joke, Bern and Munich. Illustrated by John Burningham. German by Ursula von Wiese. Volume 1: The Adventures of a miracle car. 1965, 64 pp.
- Volume 2: The New Adventures of Wonder cars. 1966, 71 pp.