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
Baron Munchausen protagonist of the first animated cartoon series in cinema history, was created by John Randolph Bray in 1913 as an amalgamation of the Baron and Teddy Roosevelt. The Italian director Paolo Azzurri filmed "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1914, and the British director F. Martin Thornton made a short silent film featuring the Baron, "The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen", the following year. In 1940, the Czech director Martin Frič filmed "Baron Prášil", starring the comic actor Vlasta Burian as a 20th-century descendant of the Baron. For the German film studio Ufa's 25th anniversary in 1943, Joseph Goebbels hired