"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" coming from MGM/UA to Blu-ray - Page 6

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Originally Posted by ahollis 

What do you mean not as you remember it?  It is in the place that I remember it.  As a child I was upset when the intermission appeared as they were falling to their deaths and thought the movie was over.  LOL
 

I've always had a theory that the filmmakers intended for the intermission to happen in between the starlight ride scene and the "Posh" sequence. It seems to be a far more natural break. My theory is that someone at the studio got the clever idea to put the intermission in a cliffhanger moment instead. A dumb idea, and it looks especially dumb on home video, because you suddenly get loud intermission music followed by repeated footage of the car falling. I honestly preferred the old vhs version that did away with the intermission entirely. But ah--whatya gonna do...

That's exactly where they did put the intermission on the MGM/UA VHS version released right after CBS/FOX lost distribution rights.