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You're very welcome. I forgot to mention that all of Fleming's fiction has been placed online at another Canadian site, Bibliowiki. Crazy Canuck Copyright Laws! (Actually quite sane compared to America's.)
Fleming's description of M's office was sparser than I remembered--perhaps memories of the film sets had been filling in the gap.
I can report that it features twice!
Forever and a Day:
M reached for his pipe, which rested next to the ashtray made out of a twelve-inch shell base that never left his desk.
...Tanner had already gone into M's office and as Bond followed him a green light came on high above, signalling that they were not to be disturbed. M was sitting at his desk. His pipe had gone out but there was enough smoke in the room to to turn the August sunlight, streaming in over Regent's Park, into shafts.
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I also checked Colonel Sun, but M's office does not appear. Instead there's a meeting with "the man Tanner whose office this was and whose insignificance was shown clearly enough by the condition of its furnishings."
Indeed..great work @Revelator ..this thread has become a great reference point re M and his office.
And doesn't the red door have some buttons missing after a bit?
Move to another place with place for it alone with more space for Moneypenny.
In Spectre we see more other people, but cameras turn out not to be save.
It give them also more reasen for Moneypenny behind her desk, as assististent of M.
Sometimes Q and Tanner can be there too. But the Focus should be more on Felix next next time and less contact between Bond and M, Q and Moneypenny. Even Tanner can be middle man and bring things to Bond. If not it should be Felix.
Wow that is simply amazing. This is why I love dioramas.
https://imgur.com/a/W0KQIza
Thank you. I will put that in the paper.
The one in YOLT is a rubber stamp for official documents.
Thank you.
I'm very glad they did it.
@PropertyOfALady: I just stumbled across this thread a few months after your question. I am rather sure that the thingy in the picture where M is in his navy uniform (is it YOLT?) is an ink blotter, not a rubber stamp or something.
The gadgets with the two containers in images 2, 3 and 5 (the golden chimaera flanked by two amphorae or urns) as well as the somewhat blander types on Moneypenny's desk (I never realised she smoked) and M's desk inside the QUEEN ELIZABETH seem to be inkwells, with the apparent second "container" in each possibly containing blotting sand or something. There also seems to be a little shelf or tray for quills or fountain pens.
The contraption beside the Churchill bust looks like an antique fire extinguisher, but I don't suppose it is.
A shame Judy never got the chance to sit in this iconic office. Her sets were pretty tbh.
My apologies, you are right I should have used a spoiler tag
Thank you. Your info will be well used.
lol, it does look like one. Good catch.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRaYSr6_fwhsPT1J49SR3XsshtnUMCtGoQxXxZqb1152-SfkKV5
Proves that even Covid-19 has its positive effects.