Prop
Category
Plastics
Date
c. 2000 - c. 2005
Materials
Plastic wrapped in foil and paper
Measurements
90 mm (Width) x 10 mm (Depth); 190 mm (Length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672178
Summary
A film prop ‘Wonka’ chocolate bar from the 2005 film ‘Charlie and The Chocolate Factory’. The bar is for ‘Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemellow Delight' flavour and comprises of a plastic chocolate tablette of fourteen pieces, each with the ‘Wonka’ stamp on them, wrapped in silver foil and inserted in a brown ‘Wonka’ paper sleeve. The front of the paper sleeve has 'Wonka' written in white text across the centre and 'Whipple - Scrumptious Fudgemellow Delight' also in white text at the bottom right. At the top left is an advert to 'Win a trip to Wonka's CHOCOLATE FACTORY' and at the bottom left is the bars net weight (150g). On the rear of the brown sleeve are printed the ingredients and nutritional ‘facts’ about the bar. ‘Charlie and The Chocolate Factory’ was a 2005 remake of the 1971 film ‘Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory’. Both films were based on a 1964 novel by Roald Dahl. The 2005 film version was directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood from The Monster Company on 6th June 2018 as part of the Collecting Cultures 'Exploring Childhoods' project