At the age of 13, Roald Dahl began attending Repton School in the East Midlands of England. During his years there, the Cadbury chocolate company occasionally sent boxes of new chocolates to the school for the students to test. Cadbury remains the favorite British candy and the second-largest confectionery company in the world today.
As a boy, Dahl dreamt of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr. Cadbury himself, and that dream inspired him to write his third children’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the book in which the movie, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” is based on.
“City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke at the Tara Theatre with film historian and filmmaker Eddy Von Mueller about the making of the movie and its cultural significance.
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