Before Indiana Jones rescued the children in the Temple of Doom there was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968. The movie is based upon the author famous for giving life to Bond, James Bond that is - Ian Fleming.
In this scene we learn that the "Rose of Success" depends blooms out of the ashes of failure.
There are two flags waved in this scene a red flag with a white 'X' and a white flag with five small navy blue crosses in dice pattern.
The flags in this movie are coincidentally used by NATO for symbolize 'zero' via the white and small blue flag, while the red flag with white saltire represents 'four.' But the time frame of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is set before WWI and before the creation of NATO. It's all just a coincidence beside the sequence is derived from imagination adventure sequence from Caractacus Potts.
The flag system was developed in the 18th century
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