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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Excellent detail @j_w_pepper. But I took this picture today. And this one isn't about TSWLM.

    Not an exact match for the moment on screen I'm comparing it to, but I knew I'd be in the area and I did the best I could with what sailed.

    Naming the ocean is welcome, but I understand this is about location globally (and in a Bond film). In this case, story and filming location are the same.

    So where did a vessel (maybe a tanker or military vessel) sail on the horizon in a similar way in a Bond film?

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    How about Los Organos from DAD. Wasn't there something on the horizon there, when Bond uses the binoculars. Either way, rings a bell (again, DAD).
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    That's not what I'm looking for @QBranch.

    I should say a similar (but not same type) vessel on the horizon in the background is not relevant to the plot, while activity involving Bond takes place in the foreground.

    It appears in two shots, then from other camera angles or due to the length of filming does not further appear. Once noticed, I see it every time I view the film.

  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    I'm lost at sea... adrift...
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    If it was presented as a quarter frame contest folks would be all over this I expect.


  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    If it was presented as a quarter frame contest folks would be all over this I expect.


    no doubt, but those guys are ten times more intelligent than I am ;-)
  • SimonSimon Keeping The British End Up...
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    It appears in one shot, then from other camera angles or due to the length of filming does not further appear. Once noticed, I see it every time I view the film.

    I cant picture it in my head, but I imagine San Fran Bay in AVTAK would have been a nightmare for shipping continuity?

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Not Moore. Not Brosnan

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I was thinking Dalton, maybe as a backdrop in the Gibraltar scenes. However, I couldn't find anything like that in those "goofs" lists.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited June 11 Posts: 13,823
    Not Dalton.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Okay a little more, the three images below represent:
    • My picture taken Monday.
    • Similar on screen area that inspired my post.
    • Not quite a quarter-frame of the screen image, but almost all left to right. Cropped at the right side for revealing detail.

    So my original photo was taken from the same general location as the film shot.


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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Okay I need to move this along so I can post on the Pilgrimages discussion.

    So not Moore, Dalton, Brosnan. Also not Connery. From what land-based viewpoint would you take a photo or film with the horizon appearing in the background like this?

  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    I know it: It is the OHMSS PTS: Portugal
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    There you go @goldenswissroyale. There you go.

    Dropping my bags at the hotel Monday morning, I had the day to myself in Lisbon. First stop was northwest to Praia do Guincho (Guincho Beach) where the pre-title sequence was filmed.

    Upper screen left a vessel is visible, more noticeable with Blu-Ray and 4K.

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    From recent travels this relates to a continuation novel, not Fleming or the films.

    Bond enjoys (or doesn't enjoy) some of the local attractions here in the city, something grabs his attention, and it builds into a mission at another location/country.

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I can further share this location is on the waterfront.

    The brownish structure on the right features in the text, and other local fixtures called out are just right of the image border.


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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    To the left should be the Royal British Columbia Museum (Victoria, Canada). So after a bit of googling I think you refer to the John Gardner novel Brokenclaw? Lee Fu-Chu gves a lecture there.
    Funny thing, I've been to Victoria a few years ago, but I would not have recognized it again.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    That's what I was looking for @zebrafish: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

    And used in John Gardner's Brokenclaw as you said.

    The Royal British Columbia Museum is actually to the right, with other landmarks the Legislative Building, the Queen Victoria statue (and its disapproving look).

    The highlight for me is back to the image I posted, that being the Fairmont Empress Hotel. Seeing it from street level it's hard to relate to a horizon type photo I admit. I can give more detail and images on the Pilgrimages discussion I had a very nice experience in the city. Includes "High Tea" (Tea at the Empress, they called it; and no card description). And another time, a martini.


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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    I'll have to read Brokenclaw!
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