Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short and deep compared to typical rigid airships, with pointed ends above the centre
Story within a story version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" uses a story within a story format to tell a purely fantastic fairy tale within a relatively more realistic frame-story. The film version of "The Wizard of Oz" does the same thing by making its inner story into a dream. Lewis Carroll's celebrated "Alice" books use the same device of a dream as an excuse for fantasy, while Carroll's less well-known "Sylvie and Bruno" subverts the trope by allowing the dream figures to enter and interact with the "real" world. Some stories feature what might be called a literary version of the Droste effect,