not long before my grandfather died I stayed with him for a while and he drove around most of the filming locations for this film it the best memory I have of him explaining all the different places
Very pleasant film, thank you. A great film, an iconic childhood memory. Sally Ann Howes passed recently but Chitty and her beautiful voice never will. Best wishes to all.
This is interesting because my father made half of Truly's car! The engine and chassis were built to Dads own original design and Russels water is where the car must have been so that Dads chassis is the part that falls in the water!
Katie, that's awesome thank you for sharing. I had the opportunity as a very young lad to see Chitty herself. It always was my favorite movie and the biggest reason for why I got into vintage auto restoration. The cars built for the movie were really quite something!
the only real problem as he mentioned in his biography no explanations on a backstory on the characters or the villians motivations.just most remembered for the set and photography songs and acting.
Now I can't get that song out of my head! Great job on this video, I loved that movie as I remember watching it in the theater when I was a 5 year old child in 1968. I even had a Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang lunch box and I sure wished that I still had it now.
Thanks so much for making this! its much appreciated - I been watching this film since I was about 6 years old or so and im now 33.. love what you done here...awesome
thanks so much for this! We were watching the film on TV today and started talking about the locations. 5 minutes later we watched your great little film! Thanks again for doing this and sharing.
Thank you for this fabulous little film. Chitty Bang Bang has always been mine and my brother Jeremy's favourite childhood film. Now both my children (3yrs and 21months) are obsessed with it and want to watch it at least once a week. Although I went to college in High Wycombe many years ago I had no idea I was so near to the filming locations. You have saved me from having to go and hunt them out. Many thanks again.
Man In The Wilderness ; I just read a trivia comment regarding that very fact. It seems the producers wanted Dick VanDyke for the part, but he only agreed if he didn't have to use the English accent. He caught a little criticism for his 'Cockney' accent in the Mary Poppin's film a few years earlier. I also read the producers wanted Julie Andrews, aka Mary Poppin's for the part of Truly Scrumptious, but she had a current engagement and wasn't able to do it.
I can never get enough of that music. Thanks for uploading. Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, etc
I was just thinking this watching some other videos, i love the sites, makes me want to visit your side of the world just to see it. This never gets old... Thanks Vinny, wherever you are....
Loved chitty chitty bang bang growing up.. ,...my earliest memories of it was in Christmas 1978, at my nans..I remember it fondly while I played with my new action man had opened all excited that Christmas morning....and eating jelly and ice cream.....fond memories
The only road-going Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film was owned up until a few years ago by the old boy who was Dick Van Dyke's driving double. He lived in Stratford upon Avon, where I work and we regularly used to see it driving about. I think he sold it to an American buyer in the end.
Love it Vince, we used to live in BUCKS. I have a signed photo from Dick Van Dyke and wrote about Richard Wattis, who also starred in the film [sweet owners secretary].
It's Neuschwanstein (New Swanstone Castle) Castle above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. It's the same castle Disney based for Cinderella's Castle and the Castle for his theme parks.
You know when you get stuck in traffic and all of the sudden you get a bad case of the “rumble guts” and then realize in horror that you have to fast because if you do not your underwear and pants will become a victim of Taco Tuesday becoming wet fart Wednesday. I’ve named that Unfortunate situation “Shitty Shitty Bang Bang”.
I love love love kisses from Brazil when I watched this movie the first time I was 11 and now I'm 56 years old and still watch with my kids. loved your work, stay with all my affection of a man aged 56 years who still has a child inside.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is one of my all time special films. I grew up in Berkshire, and thankfully for me, visited all the locations previewed in the short film. Many thanks Vince, for bringing back childhood memories. I used to work for Alan Mann, the creator of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car. Small world...
Thanks for posting this. Never realised about the Kempton Park Waterworks until seeing this, and I used to live only a mile down the road at Hanworth!! Chitty is part of my family's history as we were the nearest house, or to be exact bungalow, to the windmill. My mother used to wheel me down to the windmill everyday in my pram to watch the filming in progress of Chitty!
Never knew about kempton waterworks my father in law worked there for many years. Watched the movie so many times and never noticed. Watching this I knew before the caption told me.
@@vincecox2916 The outbuildings to the windmill were constructed for the film. There was a TV programme for the 50th anniversary. I was both impressed by the construction and disappointed that in real life it was just a windmill by itself.
I was born in High Wycombe and lived there until I was almost 7. I still remember the outings to Fingest, Turville, and Turville Heath almost 60 years ago. The Chilterns are a lovely part of England. On occasion, have returned for a nice walk and then a pint at the Bull & Butcher. Since then we’ve been in Canada and am currently breathing in smoke from forest fires.
*In hell.* *”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” starts playing.* Me: Oh, I love this song! *”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” ends.* *”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” starts playing.* Me: Wait.
Thank you for taking the time to film these. It really brought back some wonderful memories growing and watching the movie. It's amazing how many filming locations look nearly identical today.
Very nice. It's so refreshing that so many of those fine old buildings in the film are still standing, though some of the vegetation has grown considerably since 1968. Perhaps the movie encouraged a historic preservation movement in those parts! Thanks for posting!
Well done Vincent, excellent job. Thank you for identify the locations. I guess it was your curiosity that led to this being made, wanting to either confirm the locations or help preserve the accuracy of where scenes were shot. I have a similar interest in helping preserve the accuracy of what films/TV programmes were shot at Brunel University along (my place of employment) as well as when and with which actors - and thus avoiding errors. For me the location curiosity started when I worked on A Clockwork Orange - but that's another story. Well done mate.
We all gathered around the big Screen this Christmas to watch Chitty Bang Bang. The youngest we have here are 17 years old. It's still a great entertaining, and intentionally cheesy masterpiece. Love it. Wish all of England looked like this place still. This was truly English.
Thank you so much for this, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my favourite childhood film. I grew up in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, so many of these locations are familiar to me. I saw the windmill as a child, it was like meeting a favourite celebrity.
We have a guy who works with us and we call him the child catcher (not for that reason). He looks the spit of him, but he's a lovely fella. God bless you Ian.
One morning in early 1970s I had just arrived at school in Lowestoft Suffolk the school was and still is next to the A12 road, from the playground we saw Chitty bang bang drive pass under it's own power, unbelievable but true, will never forget it, I'm now 55.
They built one roadworthy version for the movie, and some other ones for certain scenes. That original car is now owned by none other than Peter Jackson of LOTR fame.
Vinny, many thanks for this mate. This film is, along with the Jungle Book THE film of my childhood (songs by the Sherman brothers in each of course) and I have been cycling round Turville and the Chilterns for years in large part because of the connection. Thanks for pinning several more places down for me, I am now off to do some more exploration!
Today's useless fact! Watch the aerial shots of around the windmill and look across the landscape. You will see a light brown dirt line stretching out over the hills. That is where they laid a high pressure gas pipeline just prior to filming. It runs from Milton Keynes to Portsmouth and It's still transporting gas reliably today 52 years later!
, that song after a while is a bit much, only thing I would change is play something else in the middle, " toot sweets" begin and end with the chitty song,. Other wise it was very cool to see so much of it has survived more then 50 years, I like places like that. Very nice ...
I wish they would make movies like this again. Most if not all movies today are nothing but sex, swearing and some sort of monster or dragon. It’s just sad.
Loved this! Thanks for posting! I was in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and never realized I was a few hundred feet from the Toyman's workshop. I did see the aquaduct outside of town where Chitty first lands in Vulgaria and Neuschwanstein. Nice to know I'm not the only one seeking these places out!
Where did they film under the castle where the kids were being held captive. It looks like Pirates of the Caribbean. The film was being shot at the same time POTC was being built...possible?
I'm curious about the castle also but the outdoor scenes. I ended up here because I was looking at the history of Neuschwanstein. Did they actually allow the filming to take place there at the castle???
not long before my grandfather died I stayed with him for a while and he drove around most of the filming locations for this film it the best memory I have of him explaining all the different places
Jonathan hill; I'll bet that was wonderful! Lucky to have those memories....
Very pleasant film, thank you. A great film, an iconic childhood memory. Sally Ann Howes passed recently but Chitty and her beautiful voice never will. Best wishes to all.
This is interesting because my father made half of Truly's car! The engine and chassis were built to Dads own original design and Russels water is where the car must have been so that Dads chassis is the part that falls in the water!
WOW!
Katie Fraser O M G THAT IS BEYOND COOL!!!!!
Katie, that's awesome thank you for sharing. I had the opportunity as a very young lad to see Chitty herself. It always was my favorite movie and the biggest reason for why I got into vintage auto restoration. The cars built for the movie were really quite something!
the only real problem as he mentioned in his biography no explanations on a backstory on the characters or the villians motivations.just most remembered for the set and photography songs and acting.
cool! thats so interesting
I’m as old as this movie and it was
my absolute favorite movie as a child. Thank you for doing this….
Now I can't get that song out of my head! Great job on this video, I loved that movie as I remember watching it in the theater when I was a 5 year old child in 1968. I even had a Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang lunch box and I sure wished that I still had it now.
Not much has changed. Thank God!
Refreshing
Nice one alison 👍
I just realized much of this was filmed in the heart of the Formula 1 tech area.
Apart from many many many more trees and bushes.
Amen
Thanks so much for making this! its much appreciated - I been watching this film since I was about 6 years old or so and im now 33.. love what you done here...awesome
Just watched this film again a few days ago, hadn’t seen it in more than 35 years. Thanks for sharing the locations, very interesting.
thanks so much for this! We were watching the film on TV today and started talking about the locations. 5 minutes later we watched your great little film! Thanks again for doing this and sharing.
Thank you for this fabulous little film. Chitty Bang Bang has always been mine and my brother Jeremy's favourite childhood film. Now both my children (3yrs and 21months) are obsessed with it and want to watch it at least once a week. Although I went to college in High Wycombe many years ago I had no idea I was so near to the filming locations. You have saved me from having to go and hunt them out. Many thanks again.
Thank you KidShare. I hope you, and your children enjoy it for many years to come!
Funny how the two British kids never though..."Blimey...our dad is an American? Howed that happen?"
Man In The Wilderness ; I just read a trivia comment regarding that very fact. It seems the producers wanted Dick VanDyke for the part, but he only agreed if he didn't have to use the English accent. He caught a little criticism for his 'Cockney' accent in the Mary Poppin's film a few years earlier. I also read the producers wanted Julie Andrews, aka Mary Poppin's for the part of Truly Scrumptious, but she had a current engagement and wasn't able to do it.
I can never get enough of that music. Thanks for uploading.
Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, Chitty bang bang, Chitty Chitty bang bang, etc
What a beautiful part of our beautiful country.
I was just thinking this watching some other videos, i love the sites, makes me want to visit your side of the world just to see it. This never gets old... Thanks Vinny, wherever you are....
Thank you for show this wondful movie the most beauiful car ever built.
At 62 I still watch now and again, and wish the world was that simple..
Hi Dollface.
No, it's always a great pleasure to revisit locations and find them almost unchanged. So glad you enjoyed it.
nice work. thank you. My favorite musical of all times
Great video, thanks for making it. Me and my Dad enjoyed it a lot!
Thanks Jennifer. All the best to you and your dad.
What enchanting locations from an enchanting film! Some marred only of course by the modern scourge of today, overcrowded parked cars!!
Who would dislike this? I remember seeing this at the drive in when I was little.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you very much for posting it.
You're very welcome. So glad you enjoyed it.
Great video Vince see a lot of time and effort has gone into this awesome video.
Loved chitty chitty bang bang growing up.. ,...my earliest memories of it was in Christmas 1978, at my nans..I remember it fondly while I played with my new action man had opened all excited that Christmas morning....and eating jelly and ice cream.....fond memories
Awesome. I didn't miss any of the castle location parts because the rest was so detailed and fascinating - especially to see older England.
Hi Harry.
Thank you for the compliments, I really appreciate it.
Thank you for filimg this ❤ God Bless you 🙏
Amazing!
Must have taken ages and a lot of reserch to put all of this togerther
Great memories.. thanks for the video.
The only road-going Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film was owned up until a few years ago by the old boy who was Dick Van Dyke's driving double. He lived in Stratford upon Avon, where I work and we regularly used to see it driving about. I think he sold it to an American buyer in the end.
Peter Jackson the film director bought it.
This is fantastic!!!! Thank you so much. 💕
gawd that song
Awesome work
This was great! Thank You
glad everything stayed somewhat the same but grew instead of everything being in ruins
This movie ,Herbie and Speed Racer all made me a car fanatic.
Love it Vince, we used to live in BUCKS. I have a signed photo from Dick Van Dyke and wrote about Richard Wattis, who also starred in the film [sweet owners secretary].
Loved it 👍👍
GREAT JOB SIR
thankyou what fun i enjoyed this...
Incredible 🇬🇧😟
Loved this movie
Fun,, good work,,,
Awww, made me well up a bit.
THANK YOU, I LOVE THAT MOVIE WHILE EATING PANCAKES MAPLE SYRUP BACON AND SAUSAGE, STILL GOOD AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS, OH I FORGOT HASH BROWNS.
Does anybody know where the beach scene (Truly Scrumptious song) was filmed?
Awesome...Thank you so much!
well done, thank you
I love this movie ❤️
how did you find all these locations?
Nice video, but I thought the outdoor scenes were filmed in France?
Some of the exterior scenes were indeed filmed in the South of France. They cleverly chopped from scene to scene between England and abroad.
Nice loved the movie
What about the castle near Füssen Germany
Nice one Vince.
Thank you DeltaRana4.
Good video but the endless repeating song I've gone total mad mad mad take me too the loony bin 😭
Where are all the condos and artist studios?
thank you
michel camby My Pleasure!
Awesome! But where was Vulgaria?
Thrilled village was used for Goodnight Mr Tom and The Vicar of Dibley
The village...
@@garethwilliams5809 Hambleden.
so where was the castle scene filmed at the before and after pics of it
bavaria, not in the uk. It's a beautiful castle which I believe was the base idea of the Disney castle.
+LittleRockRabbit Probably one of Ludwig's castles.
It's Neuschwanstein (New Swanstone Castle) Castle above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. It's the same castle Disney based for Cinderella's Castle and the Castle for his theme parks.
You forgot Cap Taillat and the Castle of Neuschwanstein.
Coordinates, please.
Nice apart from the constant music.
No German set locations?
Why is no body talking about location location location???
You know when you get stuck in traffic and all of the sudden you get a bad case of the “rumble guts” and then realize in horror that you have to fast because if you do not your underwear and pants will become a victim of Taco Tuesday becoming wet fart Wednesday. I’ve named that Unfortunate situation “Shitty Shitty Bang Bang”.
Thank you.
My favorite movie as a child... I'll be 50 in a couple of months. Shared this movie with my 9 year old son not long ago.
Every time I drive past Kempton Water works it has nagged me that it was familiar, now I know why.
There ya go! 😎👍 Would love to see more of England. 🏴 Only saw Portsmouth and London when I had a port visit there in the U.S. Navy. 😎⚓️🇺🇸🫡
A big part of my happy childhood memories, so lovely to see all these locations. Cheers Vinny ! 😊
Oh yes
I love love love kisses from Brazil
when I watched this movie the first time I was 11 and now I'm 56 years old and still watch with my kids. loved your work, stay with all my affection of a man aged 56 years who still has a child inside.
Brilliant, the golden age of cinema of the late 1960.s.
They just don't make good movies like these any more, even great for adults too as well as children.
@@patricksaxon3983 And how about that score? They don't write them like that any more, God bless the Sherman brothers!
@@kennethwayne6857
Richard Sherman, still going strong @ 92.
A wonderful job Vince ! Compliments to you for putting this together !!!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is one of my all time special films.
I grew up in Berkshire, and thankfully for me, visited all the locations previewed in the short film.
Many thanks Vince, for bringing back childhood memories.
I used to work for Alan Mann, the creator of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.
Small world...
This is great to see. Well played sir.
Nice one memories of my childhood and time with my children x toot sweets !!!!!
Thanks for posting this. Never realised about the Kempton Park Waterworks until seeing this, and I used to live only a mile down the road at Hanworth!! Chitty is part of my family's history as we were the nearest house, or to be exact bungalow, to the windmill. My mother used to wheel me down to the windmill everyday in my pram to watch the filming in progress of Chitty!
Hi Graham.
How lovely for you to have lived so close. It is a shame that the original house and barn are no more. Almost sacrilege to pull them down!
Never knew about kempton waterworks my father in law worked there for many years.
Watched the movie so many times and never noticed. Watching this I knew before the caption told me.
@@vincecox2916 The outbuildings to the windmill were constructed for the film. There was a TV programme for the 50th anniversary. I was both impressed by the construction and disappointed that in real life it was just a windmill by itself.
I was born in High Wycombe and lived there until I was almost 7. I still remember the outings to Fingest, Turville, and Turville Heath almost 60 years ago. The Chilterns are a lovely part of England. On occasion, have returned for a nice walk and then a pint at the Bull & Butcher. Since then we’ve been in Canada and am currently breathing in smoke from forest fires.
*In hell.*
*”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” starts playing.*
Me: Oh, I love this song!
*”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” ends.*
*”Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” starts playing.*
Me: Wait.
Thank you for taking the time to film these. It really brought back some wonderful memories growing and watching the movie. It's amazing how many filming locations look nearly identical today.
That was great. Glad to see the locations haven’t changed all that much.
Thanks, Vince. “Our fine four fender friend.” Adore this movie forever. ;)
Terrific loved it well done ...are you off to Neuschwanstein now lol :) xx
Glad you liked it. Thanks.
Very nice. It's so refreshing that so many of those fine old buildings in the film are still standing, though some of the vegetation has grown considerably since 1968. Perhaps the movie encouraged a historic preservation movement in those parts! Thanks for posting!
It’s the English countryside, there are hundreds of preserved and beautiful villages like that.
Love this, our family lived in Hambleden , such a pretty village. Thank you for making and posting this
been to all these locations Turville is where they did Good night Mr Tom beautiful places
It’s also where they filmed the outdoor scenes of the Vicar of Dibley with Dawn French.
Well done Vincent, excellent job. Thank you for identify the locations. I guess it was your curiosity that led to this being made, wanting to either confirm the locations or help preserve the accuracy of where scenes were shot. I have a similar interest in helping preserve the accuracy of what films/TV programmes were shot at Brunel University along (my place of employment) as well as when and with which actors - and thus avoiding errors. For me the location curiosity started when I worked on A Clockwork Orange - but that's another story. Well done mate.
We all gathered around the big Screen this Christmas to watch Chitty Bang Bang. The youngest we have here are 17 years old. It's still a great entertaining, and intentionally cheesy masterpiece. Love it. Wish all of England looked like this place still. This was truly English.
Thank you so much for this, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my favourite childhood film. I grew up in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, so many of these locations are familiar to me. I saw the windmill as a child, it was like meeting a favourite celebrity.
One of my childhood favorites too. 👍
We have a guy who works with us and we call him the child catcher (not for that reason). He looks the spit of him, but he's a lovely fella. God bless you Ian.
I didn't get the name of the song playing in the video, anybody?
One morning in early 1970s I had just arrived at school in Lowestoft Suffolk the school was and still is next to the A12 road, from the playground we saw Chitty bang bang drive pass under it's own power, unbelievable but true, will never forget it, I'm now 55.
They built one roadworthy version for the movie, and some other ones for certain scenes. That original car is now owned by none other than Peter Jackson of LOTR fame.
That was awesome!! thank you! brought back my childhood memories
Thank you Dianna. I'm glad you, and so many other people, have enjoyed it.
Vinny, many thanks for this mate. This film is, along with the Jungle Book THE film of my childhood (songs by the Sherman brothers in each of course) and I have been cycling round Turville and the Chilterns for years in large part because of the connection. Thanks for pinning several more places down for me, I am now off to do some more exploration!
Hi Guy.
Have fun and happy hunting.
Excellent. Really enjoyed this. Well done, sir!
Today's useless fact! Watch the aerial shots of around the windmill and look across the landscape. You will see a light brown dirt line stretching out over the hills. That is where they laid a high pressure gas pipeline just prior to filming. It runs from Milton Keynes to Portsmouth and It's still transporting gas reliably today 52 years later!
, that song after a while is a bit much, only thing I would change is play something else in the middle, " toot sweets" begin and end with the chitty song,. Other wise it was very cool to see so much of it has survived more then 50 years, I like places like that. Very nice ...
I wish they would make movies like this again. Most if not all movies today are nothing but sex, swearing and some sort of monster or dragon. It’s just sad.
Lovely film, so good to see locations haven't changed so much. Thank-you!!! 💜
This is a wonderful movie that has changed my life. ^ ^
Next year, I will go to the UK to visit the location of this movie.^ ^
From TOKYO JAPAN
No you didn't. COVID saw to that. I visited yesterday as I live nearby. Next year?
@@deefakir9335 WOOW!
You are so lucky. I want to visit to there next year
its amazing land developers haven't turned it into compact housing wonderful nice to see
Loved this! Thanks for posting!
I was in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and never realized I was a few hundred feet from the Toyman's workshop. I did see the aquaduct outside of town where Chitty first lands in Vulgaria and Neuschwanstein. Nice to know I'm not the only one seeking these places out!
Where did they film under the castle where the kids were being held captive. It looks like Pirates of the Caribbean. The film was being shot at the same time POTC was being built...possible?
I'm curious about the castle also but the outdoor scenes. I ended up here because I was looking at the history of Neuschwanstein. Did they actually allow the filming to take place there at the castle???
wonderful film ,thanks so much.
Excellent video. Beautiful Bucks!
I know how viciously difficult these kinds of then and now comparisons are! Well done!
More before and now videos thanks mate!😁😁😁