When was willy wonka and the chocolate factory made

Racing home, he is confronted by the sinister man seen whispering to the other winners. The man introduces himself as Slugworth and offers to pay him for a sample of Wonka's latest creation, the Everlasting Gobstopper. Charlie returns home with his news. Grandpa Joe is so elated that he finds he can walk as Charlie chooses him as his chaperon. The next day, Wonka greets the ticket winners at the factory gates. Each is required to sign an extensive contract before they may begin the tour.

The factory is a psychedelic wonderland that includes a river of chocolate, edible mushrooms, lickable wallpaper, and other marvelous sweets and inventions. Wonka's workers are small men known as Oompa-Loompas. Next they all go to the Inventing Room and are each given an Everlasting Gobstoper.

There, Violet blows up as a blueberry after chewing an experimental three-course meal gum, against Wonka's warnings. The group reaches the Fizzy Lifting Drinks Room, where Charlie and Grandpa Joe disregard Wonka's warning and sample the drinks on purpose, only to break the rules and get in trouble.

They are not caught in the act, but have a near-fatal encounter with an exhaust fan. The next room is the Chocolate Eggs Room, where Wonka uses geese to lay chocolate eggs. Veruca demands she wants one, which leads her to singing "I Want It Now", and then falling down the garbage chute leading to the furnace. Her father shortly falls in trying to rescue her. They go and test out Wonka's Wonkavision to find that Mike has teleported himself and turned a few inches tall.

All of this misbehavior has Oompa Loompas singing about their bad conduct. At the end of the tour, only Charlie and Grandpa Joe remain, but Wonka dismisses them, without awarding them the promised lifetime supply of chocolate. Grandpa Joe follows Wonka to ask him about this, and Wonka angrily tells him that because they had violated the contract by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks, they receive nothing. Seeking revenge, Grandpa Joe suggests to Charlie that he should give Slugworth the Gobstopper that they got in the Inventing Room, but Charlie can't bring himself to hurt Wonka intentionally and returns the candy to him instead.

Wonka immediately changes his tone, and declares Charlie the winner. He reveals that "Slugworth" is actually an employee named Mr. Wilkinson, and the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test for all the kids: Charlie was the only one who passed.

The trio enter the "Wonkavator", a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. Soaring over the city, Wonka reveals to Charlie that his actual prize is the entire factory itself because Wonka had created the contest to find an honest child worthy enough to be his heir. He informs Charlie that he and his family can move into the factory immediately. The idea for adapting the book into a film came about when director Mel Stuart's ten-year-old daughter read the book and asked her father to make a film out of it, with "Uncle Dave" producer David L.

Wolper producing it. Wolper persuaded the company, who had no previous experience in the film industry, to buy the rights to the book and finance the picture for the purpose of promoting a new Quaker Oats Wonka Bar. It was agreed that the film would be a children's musical, and that Dahl himself would write the screenplay.

Seltzer also worked Slugworth only mentioned as a rival candy maker in the book into the plot as an actual character only to be revealed to be Wilkinson, one of Wonka's agents, at the end of the film. Because it was real, it ended up smelling really bad by the end of filming. Every wonder why the foam in the Wonka Wash scene looks kind of like the foam that comes out of a fire extinguisher?

Many actors had to receive medical treatment after coming in contact with the Wonka Wash. The movie was financed by the Quaker Oats Company, which planned to tie in the movie to a new candy bar. The title was changed in order to support the tie-in. However, the candy bars melted too easily, even while still on the shelf, and so they were removed from the market.

But the name change was probably fine with author, Dahl, who allegedly hated the movie so much he refused allow any more versions of the movie to be made while he was alive. He also refused to give up the movie rights to the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

The idea for adapting the book into a film came about when Mel Stuart's ten-year-old daughter read the book and asked her father to make a film out of it, with "Uncle Dave" David L. Wolper producing it. Stuart paid her fifty dollars for the advice. The town of Nordlingen, Germany, over which the Glass Elevator flies at the end, has a rare distinction. It is located inside a twenty-five kilometer fifteen and a half mile wide crater from an asteroid impact of over fourteen million years ago.

You can just see the ridges of the crater's edge in the top of the screen it is not the town wall. Some stone structures in Nordlingen, and surrounding areas, are speckled with tiny little diamonds from the impact. When filming the tunnel scene, the actors' reactions to Wonka's singing were genuine; Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, and Denise Nickerson were all terrified and had thought Gene Wilder had gone into a psychotic meltdown.

Nickerson's is when she repeats "Everlasting Gobstopper" after Willy Wonka first shows them to the children, and Themmen's is when he asks, "Am I coming in clear" after being sent through television. In the scene where Wonka angrily reads to Charlie and Grandpa Joe the contract out loud, he reads two lines in Latin: "Fax mentis incendium gloriae culpum", which translates to "the torch of the mind lights the path to glory", and "Memo bis punitor delicatum", which translates to "no one can be twice punished for the same offence".

The coin that Charlie finds in the gutter is a Maria Theresa Thaler: this is a silver dollar-sized Austrian coin originally minted in , and manufactured almost continuously since then by various mints. The belches that Charlie and Grandpa Joe expel to get grounded in the Fizzy Lifting Room were created by a Foley artist who was a specialist with belches. Veruca Salt's name, also spelled "Verruca" or "Verucca", is a medical term for a wart, usually found on the foot, and caused by a virus.

Seems appropriate, considering the character's personality. In both the book and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , when learning the children's names, Willy Wonka mentions that "verruca" is a wart on the bottom of a foot. In the DVD commentary Michael Bollner Augustus Gloop had a difficult time playing the restaurant scene because he was required to eat knockwurst, which he didn't like.

The last line from the original script was "Grandpa saying "Yippee! Mel Stuart was so upset with it that he had called David Seltzer, who had just left to go on vacation to his fishing cabin in Maine, and demanded he change the last line.

There, over the phone, he came up with Willy telling Charlie that the man who got whatever he wanted lived happily ever after. If you look closely during the "Candyman" musical sequence, Bill, the candy shop owner, accidentally hits a girl in the face when he opens up the counter. This may have been purely accidental and unscripted, but this has led to speculation by fans of the movie that the character is not a nice character because he willingly throws candy at the rich kids who come into the store and doesn't demand payment; when Charlie comes into the shop for candy and immediately begins to eat, Bill presses for payment, and he lectures Charlie about eating too fast.

The shrinking room is no optical illusion. The room starts out eight feet 2. Roald Dahl disowned the film, the script of which was partially rewritten by David Seltzer after Dahl failed to meet deadlines. Dahl said he was "disappointed" because "he thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie", as well as the non-casting of Spike Milligan.

He was also "infuriated" by the deviations in the plot Seltzer devised in his draft of the screenplay, including the conversion of Slugworth, a minor character in the book, into a spy so that the movie could have a villain and the "fizzy lifting drinks" scene. To add insult to injury, Seltzer had Willy Wonka spout quotations all the time that were not originally in the book. As a result, Dahl refused to sell the company the rights to the book's sequel, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator".

Joel Grey was first choice for the role of Willy Wonka, but was not considered physically imposing enough. The role was then offered to Ron Moody, who declined it, and Jon Pertwee had to turn down the role because he was in the tight schedule of Doctor Who at the time. Peter Sellers was desperate to play the role, and even begged Roald Dahl for approval. Sidney James and Kenneth Williams showed interest in the role.

Frankie Howerd was offered the role, but scheduling conflicts with Up Pompeii and The Chastity Belt forced him to turn down the role. All six performing members of Monty Python Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin had expressed great interest in playing the role, but they were deemed not big enough names for an international audience.

Eric Idle recorded the audio version of the book. Gene Wilder had input on Wonka's wardrobe; he changed the bottle pants from green to tan, and made the top hat shorter. To create the illusion of movement, the crew projected footage from a Munich traffic tunnel behind the boat. The scene of Mike's downfall was difficult to film. When seen far away while in the television, it was accomplished through bluescreen. While seen in the television from close-up, Paris Themmen - who played Mike - was standing on a platform on a huge television set.

The shot where Mrs. Teevee picks him up was a doll, and the single shot where we see a close-up of Mike dangling from his mom's fingers at around one hour and thirty minutes was accomplished by having Paris dangle from a styrofoam thumb and forefinger covered with fabric. While giving interviews as part of the 40th Anniversary celebration of the theatrical release, Denise Nickerson mentioned that, because of all the gum she had to chew as Violet, she ended up with thirteen cavities.

The reason is that, although sugarless gum was around in the early s, the formula was a bit different than that of modern sugarless gums, and didn't make very good bubbles.

So Denise was stuck chewing regular, sugared gum. Jean Stapleton was the first choice to play Mike Teevee's mother, but turned down the part in favor of doing a television series pilot instead; the series ended up being All in the Family When Alberto Minoleta, the Paraguayan gambler is announced as the fifth Golden Ticket finder, the photo shown on the news is actually a photo of Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellory, and Adolf Hitler's private secretary.

This was meant as an inside joke since rumors at the time still persisted that Bormann was living in South America under a false identity, having disappeared after WWII.

However, one year after the film was released, remains were found in Berlin that were eventually identified as Bormann's. According to the Wonka "kids", the hair and make-up lady, who was German, used a German word to refer to Gene Wilder's often unruly hair, not realizing that the English translation of the word is "chicken".

Paris Themmen - who played Mike Teevee - was the youngest of the child actors in the movie: he was 11 years old. In the first classroom scene, director Mel Stuart's daughter Madeline Stuart can be seen chewing gum and blowing a bubble, just as Charlie approached the teacher's desk.

In the second classroom scene the teacher asks her how many Wonka bars she opened, which she replies "about a hundred". Since this was filmed before the days of CGI, one of the visual effects that needed to be accomplished was Violet turning blue. At the time, the development of color layering was in process. According to the book, Violet's face and hair turns blue. Mel Stuart worked with it, but was only able to turn her face blue. Further development of the color layering was perfected by the time Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was released and was ready for use to make the light-saber concept look good.

Charlie Bucket's and Veruca Salt's hometowns are never mentioned throughout the movie, but it is likely Veruca and her family reside in England: her number is over the British Isles, Mr.

Wolper described that they brought in David Seltzer who had worked with Wolper on several shows because Roald Dahl's screenplay was missing many story elements they felt were needed, such as a villain. According to Seltzer, he went to Munich and walked into a situation working on the screenplay of a big musical with no prior screenwriting experience that in hindsight, he wouldn't have done.

In the crowd outside the Wonka factory, you can see a crowd member, on-screen left, holding a large professional motion picture camera. There are shots in the movie, of the crowd and the chosen families coming forward, and of the Slugworth figure, which were made by that camera. According to an interview with Peter Ostrum, Mark Lester was turned down for the role of Charlie because of his high-pitched singing voice. When Mel Stuart took the book to his producer friend David L. Wolper, he didn't know that Wolper had been in talks with the Quaker Oats company about finding a film property that could accommodate some product placement for them.

This led to the creation of the Wonka Bar, a major innovative collaboration between sweet manufacturer and film company at the time. There's been some debate as to the correct spelling of Mike Teevee's last name. In the movie's closing credits, as well as in all of the promotional media for the movie's U. In the book, it is spelled "Teavee" and finally, in the movie, during the scene where all the children sign the large contract, Mike is seen signing his name as "Mike T. A dummy made up to look like Michael Bollner - who played Augustus Gloop - was used for the scene where Augustus gets stuck in the pipe, specifically during the long shots of the guests watching him from across the river and when he eventually shoots up the pipe.

This is referenced in the audio commentary on the DVD and Blu-ray. Mel Stuart gave Gene Wilder the part of Willy Wonka as soon as he walked in the door: "He didn't even have to open his mouth. The little scene with Charlie and his mom before the "Cheer Up, Charlie" song was filmed at in the morning.

Contrary to popular belief, Fred Astaire was never considered to play Willy Wonka. Wolper's attention. Just as well, because, as Stuart says in his book, he didn't conceive of Willy Wonka as a 72 year old man, which happened to be what Astaire was at the time.

In the candy shop scene at the beginning of the film, a sign for "Fickelgruber's Fudge" can be seen. In the book, Fickelgruber, along with Slugworth, was one of the rival candy makers who sent spies to Wonka's factory. The uncredited boy sitting in front of Peter Ostrum in the classroom scenes is Bob Roe, son of first assistant director Jack Roe, and that the uncredited girl with pigtails in the classroom across the aisle from Peter was played by Mel's daughter Madeline.

In the featurette "Pure Imagination", Mel mentions his daughter was ten years old in when she read the book, and suggested to him that he approach "Uncle Dave" David L. Wolper with the idea of turning the book into a movie. The S. Wonkatania was supposed to look like a sixteenth century three-masted sailboat, but that would have been too big to fit inside the studio.

Even though the film was made in Germany, which is world-renowned for its candies, on the DVD commentary, Peter Ostrum said that the sweets were shipped from the United States. In his words: "They were quite stale by the time we got to them. After the company finished filming in Munich, Germany, the studio and locations were then taken over by the Cabaret people. Cole once left accidentally left the coat behind at the studio canteen, and it was soon returned to her.

The Golden Goose scene wasn't in the book and replaced the Nut scene from the book. However, the Nut scene does appear in the remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The film is often erroneously thought of as a Warner Bros. In fact, the film was independently made and the release was handled by Paramount Pictures.

However, the theatrical distribution rights lapsed in , and Paramount, in the days before home video, thought the film was of little commercial use to them anymore, so they never renewed them. The rights were eventually bought by Warner Bros. The film was first released by them onto VHS and Betamax in Warner Bros.

Unlike the other children who lived in different cities or continents, Charlie only lived a few streets away from Wonka's factory. Hundreds of boys were screentested for the part of Charlie before Peter Ostrum was finally cast literally days before production was due to start.

The image of Willy Wonka leaning on the Everlasting Gobstopper machine with his head on his hand has gone on to become a popular meme focusing on condescending someone. Contrary to popular belief, "snozzberry" was not a euphemism for a certain male body part.

In his book "Some Time Never" Roald Dahl stated that snozzberries were the main diet of gremlins, described as a sweet, juicy red fruit that grew in orchards. After the success of this film, the studio had planned to adapt the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

However, Roald Dahl so disliked this film that he refused to sell the rights to his subsequent book. There was talk of writing a screenplay for an original sequel, but this was abandoned and no sequel was ever made. The layers of make-up would become hard for the actors to scrape off at the end of the day. Technically, Veruca Salt was the only child to not find a Golden Ticket; she bullied her father to get his staff to look for one. Plus, she was the only one who was not hounded by the press or other people.

Peter Sellers begged Dahl for the part. Both men were part of the British radio comedy series "The Goon Show". Although he is first billed, Gene Wilder - who played Willy Wonka - does not appear until about into the film, although he appeared full time from about minutes until the rest the film's duration.

He is however mentioned several times during the first half of the film. The same year as the film's release, Aubrey Woods - who played Bill, the sweet shop owner - appeared as The Controller in the Doctor Who serial "Day of the Daleks". Jon Pertwee, who was The Doctor in the show at the time, had been offered the role of Willy Wonka, but turned the role down, due to his commitment to the series. According to a publisher who worked with Roald Dahl for many years the author was roundly considered to be a jerk; an abusive, intolerable person, with blatantly anti-semitic tendencies.

In his memoir Avid Reader, Robert Gottlieb, who was top-brass there from to , wrote a little about working with Dahl: His behavior to the staff there was so demanding and rude that no one wanted to work with him, and in any case there was no one there who was elevated enough for him to deign to deal with. Roald was a tremendous charmer. Secretaries were treated like servants, tantrums were thrown both in person and in letters, and when Bob Bernstein, as head of Random House, didn't accede to his immoderate and provocative financial demands, we sensed anti-Semitic undertones in his angry response.

The costume that Denise Nickerson wore for her blueberry transformation consisted of two halves of Styrofoam pieces put together with a mold of her body shape, with the clothing stretched and stitched over-top. The inflation happened in two stages, the first was putting Denise into a sort of inflatable suit, then cutting away to her full blueberry costume.