Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott Caractacus Potts is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to Pott's character. In the original 1964 book, "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car", Pott is a Royal Navy Commander and eccentric inventor who lives with his wife Mimsy and their twin eight-year-old children, Jeremy and Jemima, on their hilltop farm. The filmmakers, including screenwriter Roald Dahl, altered a good deal of the book's details when crafting the 1968 film musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", in which Caractacus is portrayed by Dick
Constance Mary Pott male contemporaries. Constance Mary Pott is analyzed in the book, and the authors contribute her lack of recognition was due to a few different reasons. Pott had a very Victorian upbringing, in which self-promotion was discouraged, so Pott wasn't able to exploit her artwork as much as her male counterparts. Pott outlived many of her peers and lived 32 years past the peak demand for etching artists, so when she died, her artwork was no longer related to the art scene at the time. Constance Mary Pott also neglected to keep a record of her artwork, so historians had a