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Dr. No Original Film Reel

Gunbarrels007Gunbarrels007
in Bond Movies Posts: 229
Here's an excerpt of a original black and white reel print of Dr. No from 1962 where Bond takes on Mr. Jones taken from the featurette of the film. It gives an insight of how the film might have looked in theaters back in the day when it was released.

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  • Gunbarrels007Gunbarrels007
    Posts: 229
    Yes thought it was interesting nonetheless as I never saw it uploaded before.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 17,756
    Just out of curiosity, what purpose would a black and white featurette have? TV?
  • BT3366BT3366
    Posts: 1,917
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity, what purpose would a black and white featurette have? TV?
    TV would sometimes use things like this as fillers when a movie finished its time slot early as the majority of series at the time were in black and white still.

    Also, a lot of features were still done in black and white in 1962/63 as color was a lot more expensive to shoot on especially for featurettes. Even the GF featurette a couple years later was in black and white.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 17,756
    BT3366 wrote: »
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity, what purpose would a black and white featurette have? TV?
    TV would sometimes use things like this as fillers when a movie finished its time slot early as the majority of series at the time were in black and white still.

    Also, a lot of features were still done in black and white in 1962/63 as color was a lot more expensive to shoot on especially for featurettes. Even the GF featurette a couple years later was in black and white.

    Thanks, @BT3366! I was completely unaware that these things existed back in the day.
  • BT3366BT3366
    Posts: 1,917
    No problem. I have a fond memory of the summer of '79 when a movie finished early pn one of the networks and it ran the featurette on MR before it came out, the one that's on the vault special features of the Blu-ray, and included cable car footage and I knew I had to see the film.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited April 2020 Posts: 17,756
    BT3366 wrote: »
    No problem. I have a fond memory of the summer of '79 when a movie finished early pn one of the networks and it ran the featurette on MR before it came out, the one that's on the vault special features of the Blu-ray, and included cable car footage and I knew I had to see the film.

    That must have been quite the teaser, @BT3366!
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    It's interesting seeing Bond in black and white. I imagine those early films – if on a lesser budget – could still have been popular in black and white. The locations and cinematography benefits from colours of course, so it wouldn't have been the same.
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