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All About James Bond! First XL-Edition Golden Edition Copies 001–500* *No. 007 not for sale; to be auctioned for charity Limited to 500 num- “We wanted to create a book that Features include: would be an appropriate tribute to this bered copies, signed incredible 50-year milestone. A book – Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the most by Daniel Craig that would show the familiar, but also things never seen before, treasures successful and longest-running film franchise in uncovered, moments long since cinema history! forgotten. A book that would look not – Made with unrestricted access to the Bond archives, just at the world of Bond films, but the world behind the films, at everything this XL tome recounts the entire history of James Bond it took to make this 50-year journey in words and pictures happen.” – Among the 1100 images are many previously unseen — Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, EON Productions stills, on-set photos, memos, documents, storyboards, posters, and designs, plus unused concepts, and With an archival, museum- alternative designs quality pigment print THE JAMES BOND ARCHIVES – Behind-the-scenes stories from the people who were signed by legendary Bond LIMITED FIRST EDITION there: producers, directors, actors, screenwriters, set designer Sir Ken Adam Edited by Paul Duncan production designers, special effects technicians, Hardcover + film strip of Dr. No stuntmen, and other crew members 41.1 x 30 cm (16.2 x 11.8 in.), 600 pages – Chapters written by Ellen Cheshire, Danny Graydon, Howard Hughes, Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc, Editions: Jamie Russell, and Paul Duncan English: ISBN 978–3–8365–2105-5 – Includes every Bond film ever made, from Dr. No German: ISBN 978–3–8365–2104–8 (1962) to Skyfall (2012) Bound in full leather French: ISBN 978–3–8365–2106–2 – Special bonus included with the first print run of the with gold finish Spanish: ISBN 978–3–8365–2107–9 book only: an original strip of film from Dr. No and gilded edges THE JAMES BOND ARCHIVES ART EDITION List Prices: Edited by Paul Duncan 1 150 | $ 200 | £ 135 Hardcover + film strip of Dr. No 41.1 x 30 cm (16.2 x 11.8 in.), 600 pages Special bonus: Golden Edition A: included with the first print run of the book only: English: ISBN 978–3–8365–4268–5 an original strip of a half second of film from Dr. No Golden Edition B: English: ISBN 978–3–8365–4267–8 Golden Edition A, No. 001–250 Golden Edition No. 007: Includes a pigment print of a set design drawing for Goldfinger (1964). Signed by Daniel Craig, Sam Mendes and the producers. This copy is Print size: 42 x 80 cm (16.6 x 31.4 in.), Frame not included not available for sale, but will be auctioned off for charity at EON’s special Bond auction at Christie’s on October 05, 2012. Golden Edition B, No. 251–500 Includes a pigment print of a set design drawing for You Only Live Twice (1967). List Prices: Print size: 42 x 80 cm (16.6 x 31.4 in.), Frame not included Prices to be announced, visit www.taschen.com for more information Dr. No (1962) 2.02 Synopsis world domination. Bond outwits Dr. No who falls victim FELIX LEITER JACK LORD Crew Arriving in Jamaica to investigate the suspected murder to his own scheme and dies. M BERNARD LEE DIRECTOR TERENCE YOUNG of a fellow agent and his secretary, James Bond eludes Rescuing Honey, Bond commandeers a motorboat PROFESSOR R.J. DENT ANTHONY DAWSON SCREENPLAY RICHARD MAIBAUM, several attempts on his life. With the help of CIA agent and together they escape from Crab Key, seconds MISS TARO ZENA MARSHALL JOHANNA M. HARWOOD, BERKELY MATHER Felix Leiter and local fisherman Quarrel, Bond follows the before it explodes, leaving the final devastation of QUARREL JOHN KITZMILLER PRODUCERS HARRY SALTZMAN, ALBERT R. BROCCOLI sinister trail of Dr. No to his island Crab Key. Shortly after Dr. No’s fantastic laboratory behind. SYLVIA TRENCH EUNICE GAYSON DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY TED MOORE landing on the beach with Quarrel, Bond encounters MISS MONEYPENNY LOIS MAXWELL PRODUCTION DESIGNER KEN ADAM alluring shell collector Honey Ryder. The three uninvited RELEASE DATE October 5, 1962 (UK) MAJOR BOOTHROYD PETER BURTON ART DIRECTOR SYD CAIN visitors are hunted down by Dr. No’s private army, who kill RUNNING TIME 110 minutes SISTER LILY YVONNE SHIMA PRODUCTION MANAGER L.C. RUDKIN Quarrel then take Bond and Honey to Dr. No’s SISTER ROSE MICHEL MOK STUNT COORDINATOR BOB SIMMONS magnificent lair. Cast PHOTOGRAPHER MARGUERITE LEWARS EDITOR PETER HUNT Their megalomaniac host, Dr. No, tells Bond that by JAMES BOND SEAN CONNERY SUPERINTENDENT DUFF WILLIAM FOSTER-DAVIS SOUND EDITOR NORMAN WANSTALL utilizing the nuclear laboratory on site, he plans to HONEYCHILE “HONEY” RYDER URSULA ANDRESS MUSIC MONTY NORMAN destroy the US Space program as his first move towards DR. JULIUS NO JOSEPH WISEMAN TITLES MAURICE BINDER 2.011.01 52 53 — — — — Chapter 2 No Dr. Chapter 2 Dr. N “It was a miracle. When you look back on it we were o ( ( 1962 just damn lucky and everything worked. It was just 1962 ) one of those things. It could have gone exactly the other ) way, and we’d have been sunk without a trace.” Terence Young Bottled Violence a publicity stunt at a gambling resort just outside of Turin on the JerryJerry Juroe It was rereleased with a new pattern of publicity, a Italian side of the Swiss Alps.Alps. The idea was that this unknown British new pattern of advertising, and a new pattern of cinemas. That Lois Maxwell I was invited to a rough cut of the film with all of the actor named Sean Connery was going to break the bank. We did was when it took off. crew and their wives. We realized for the first time that the film was it, and it hit the wires and broke in New York as a front-page story. Paul Duncan The US poster was handled by art director David actually terribly funny. I mean, one minute you’d be laughing, the The stunt was very easy to accomplish because the wheel was Chasman, who hired Mitchell Hooks to draw it, and Joe Caroff to next minute you’re on the edge of your seat. We thought this is not rigged, the bets were rigged, and for a brief period of time Sean design a logo.logo. a run-of-the-mill film. It’s going to be something different. Connery, as well as one or two other people who were part and Joe Caroff When I researched the Walther PPK at the New York Paul Duncan Jerry Juroe was the director of European publicity parcel of the operation, was sitting there winning money until he Public Library, I recognized that it did not have enough silhouette and advertising at United Artists. literally broke the bank. So it was not that difficult, but I must tell you impact for quick recognition, so I drew a gun that did. The basic JerJerryry Juroe We had a sneak preview at the Odeon in Kensington. as soon as it was handed over the money was handed back. It concept, however, sprang from writing 007 and instantly realizing That was ververyy much an American idea, since I don’t believe it was was quite a few billion lire. Not million, but billion. that the 7 was a great handle. Adding the barrel and trigger was an activity that took place on productions in England. That evening Paul Duncan The casino stunt broke on January 10, 1963, just pure joy. we were standing at the back of the stalls. There was Harry before Dr. No’’s release in West Germany, France, and then in Italy, Cubby Broccoli What mattered to me personally was that the big Saltzman, Cubby Broccoli, Terence Young, and myself, as well as and the rest of Europe. Filming had already begun on the second success of the film totally confirmed my belief in Bond when major Bud Ornstein, who was the head of production for United Artists. movie, From Russia with Love (1963), before Dr.Dr. No was released in studio producers were turning it down. The film had cost $1 million. 2.04 2.05 The audience went absolutely berserkberserk,, and Bud and I went America on May 8. It took back, worldwide (TV residuals were still to come), more than immediately to call New York at the end of it. They just didn’t want Cubby Broccoli Several of the UA bookers who saw the picture 20 times that. to believe it was as good as we told them it was. privately in our projection room expressed some doubt that they I had to smile. United Artists had seen the test on Sean Paul Duncan Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October could sell a picture in the major US cities with “a Limey truck driver ConneryConnery and had asked if we could do better. The bookers, 5, 1962. dubious about their inability to sell ““thisthis Limey truck driver” to the Cubby Broccoli The film opened in England to almost unanimous American people, had expected it to die, and selected an praise. The London Times, recognizing its intrinsic tongue-in-cheek Oklahoma drive-in for the interment. approachapproach,, praised the care and expertise that had gone into the All these forebodings had been royally blown away at the production. Superlatives like “magnificent” and “superb” burst out stunning premiere we had in London. Ian Fleming, who also had of most of the tabloids.

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