Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(DVD) 

Time listed on some copies: 145 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.

Based on the book by Ian Fleming.

Special features: Disc 1: feature presentations; sing-along feature; "Chitty the musical" sneak peak -- Disc 2: "Remembering 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' with Dick Van Dyke documentary; "A fantasmagorical motorcar" featurette; read-along feature; Sherman Brother song demos; "The ditchling tinkerer" featurette; original Dick Van Dyke interview; The Pott's children's featurette; vintage advertising gallery; 2 interactive games; DVD-ROM printable colloring pages.

Cinematographer, Christopher Challis ; art director, Harry Pottle ; editor, John Shirley ; music and lyrics, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman ; costume designers, Joan Bridge, Elizabeth Haffenden ; production designer, Ken Adams.

Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quale, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley, Adrian Hall.

Crackpot inventor Caractacus Potts lives in the English countryside with his two children and their dotty grandfather. Potts's various inventions, including Toot Sweets, a candy/whistle, backfires. But then Potts restores a junked race car, affectionately named "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Chitty flies, floats, and generally thwarts efforts by Baron Bomburst to capture her.

MPAA rating: G.

DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Widescreen (2.20:1) and full screen presentations; 5.1 Dolby Digital, high definition transfer.

Closed-captioned.