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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
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    Just picked this up from a charity shop, has some pretty cool stuff in. I will likely read it and donate back to charity. I have given away a lot of my Bond books recently as going more minimalistic.

    Yeh, I got that book when it came out! Pretty good

    I have had a quick look through, some great images.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I watched the new video on the 007 youtube channel about the set and prop design which features Meg Symmonds the Eon archivist, and I'd love a big coffee table book like that where they go through the archive and photograph the old set designs and props they have in there, that would be great. All those treasures!
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    mtm wrote: »
    I watched the new video on the 007 youtube channel about the set and prop design which features Meg Symmonds the Eon archivist, and I'd love a big coffee table book like that where they go through the archive and photograph the old set designs and props they have in there, that would be great. All those treasures!

    The production behind the films certainly during Cubbys era has always fascinated me, the production was one of the key factors that set the movies apart from anyone who attempted to immintate.
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
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    How about a Cubby Broccoli Spaghetti family recipe? A Broccoli cook-book if you will.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    The latest addition to my book collection is this 1979 first-edition that covers the Bond films up to Moonraker. Funnily, it also includes Casino Royale 1967, tugged in between YOLT and OHMSS. I remember flipping through this unattainable book back then (it cost DM 16,80, while my pocket money was 2 DM per week). I had not seen every Bond movie until then and his book retold the scripts in gripping detail, illustrated with publicity shots and scene shots in black and white. I believe this was the first "big" book on the James Bond films in Germany.

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    It also features an appendix with crucial biographical information about the actors and actresses that played Bond, the baddies and the Bond girls - which other films they starred in. That was information that was almost impossible to obtain back then without buying serious movie magazines. Quite unbelievable nowadays, when all this information is only a few clicks away.

    Anyway, another quest from my youth completed.
  • GerardGerard
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    I bought the second edition of that book when I was doing my military service in Trier. No CR '67 there. Still very informative indeed.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    mtm wrote: »
    I watched the new video on the 007 youtube channel about the set and prop design which features Meg Symmonds the Eon archivist, and I'd love a big coffee table book like that where they go through the archive and photograph the old set designs and props they have in there, that would be great. All those treasures!

    Years ago there was a segment about one of the Dalton films or GE and they did a quick visit to the archives and showed a few of the props on shelves and I was fascinated and wanted more. The 007 Fan Club did conventions in the early '90s where they brought out the props and they've been part of traveling exhibitions. I just wonder what will happen to all of this with Amazon in charge.

    Taschen did a similar book with Kubrick's collection showing his archives and I could see a similar book being done, just as long as they don't charge an out-of-reach price like with their recent Dr. No book.
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