Child Catcher Child Catcher The Child Catcher is a character in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and in the later stage musical adaptation. The character did not appear in the original Ian Fleming book. The Child Catcher is employed by Baron Bomburst and Baroness Bomburst to snatch and imprison children on the streets of Vulgaria. In the 1968 film, he was played by ballet dancer Robert Helpmann. Whilst filming one of the scenes where the Child Catcher rides his horse and carriage out of the village, the Cage/Carriage uptilted with Helpmann on board. Dick Van Dyke recalls Helpmann being able to
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen most exciting experiment so far in animation and in combining different techniques ... The Méliès influence is present throughout the film, which reaches the same level of poetry as the works of that old master." "Le Monde"s film blog called Zeman's technique "perfectly fitted" ("parfaitement adaptée") to the Baron Munchausen stories, and described the result as "endowed with a splendid sense of humor and very inventive" ("doté d’un bel humour et très inventif"). The film historian Peter Hames described "Baron Prášil" as "perhaps [Zeman's] finest film." When the film was screened at the British Film Institute in the 1980s, it