“I admire your dedication to keeping
the archive of James Bond 007 alive.” Sir Sean Connery
Since 1988, 007 MAGAZINE and its
Archive have been providing a unique point of reference for all
areas of the media requiring photographs, illustrations, and
information about every conceivable aspect relating to the James
Bond phenomenon.
The 007 MAGAZINE Archive contains a varied collection of images,
which includes film stills, transparencies, production drawings,
storyboards, posters & graphics, books, magazines, and newspaper
cuttings – many of which are scanned into its digital archive.
The 007 MAGAZINE Archive is the largest
archive relating to the James Bond phenomenon in the world which is
readily available to the world’s media. Forever at the forefront of James
Bond archiving and conscious of the on-going need to discover
fast-disappearing items of James Bond history for 007 fans yet to come,
007 MAGAZINE Archive has been active in saving many film props from
destruction and has been responsible for archiving:
Dr. No (1962)
Walther PPK.
Sean Connery’s Trilby hat, casino chips, card shoe, and croupier’s
palette.
From Russia With Love
(1963)
The original, and prototypes of the throwing knife
from 007’s trick briefcase.
Goldfinger (1964)
Oddjob’s steel-rimmed bowler hat*,
Miami poolside furniture (two chairs and sun-lounger – including
Goldfinger’s card table). After filming on Goldfinger at
Pinewood Studios was
concluded the set was then acquired by none other than
James Bond comic strip artist
John McLusky, who used
them in his garden and office. The set was then
purchased from John McLusky by the 007 MAGAZINE
ARCHIVE.
*On September 17, 1998, the 007
MAGAZINE Archive sold Oddjob’s steel-rimmed bowler hat from the film
Goldfinger in CHRISTIE’S first all-James Bond auction. The
hat sold for an incredible £62,000 and was purchased by the James Bond filmmakers EON Productions.
ABOVE: (left)
Christopher Lee [Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun
(1974)] posed with Oddjob's steel-rimmed bowler hat to publicise
the 1998 CHRISTIE'S 007 auction. (centre) 007 MAGAZINE Archive’s
sale of Oddjob’s hat set a record for the highest priced
individual Bond prop ever to sell in auction – a record which
remains unbroken! The auction result was published in 007
NEWSLETTER #19 November 1998. (right) Oddjob's steel-rimmed bowler
hat on display at London's Planet Hollywood.
BELOW:
September 17, 1998 – CHRISTIE’S first James Bond
auction (unedited rushes):
including the sale by Graham Rye of the Oddjob
square-crown bowler hat.
You Only
Live Twice (1967)
Selection of Ninja throwing stars
and grappling weapons.
On Her
Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) JamesBond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s (Telly Savalas) wall-mounted
Coat of Arms, SPECTRE
skiers machinegun (fibreglass, battery operated).
ABOVE: (top left)
The original Blofeld Coat of Arms used at Pinewood Studios during
filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). A larger
version was used on location at Piz Gloria in Switzerland. (top
right) A prop machinegun used by SPECTRE skiers in On Her
Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and [ROLLOVER] detail from a
French front-of-house still from the film. (bottom left) On
Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Production Designer Syd
Cain (1918-2011) photographed by Graham Rye in front of Blofeld's
Coat of Arms in The Garden Suite at Pinewood Studios in 1992.
(bottom right) Syd Cain's original production illustration of Blofeld’s
Coat of Arms. [ROLLOVER] Blofeld’s Coat of Arms as seen in On
Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), with George Lazenby on
set at Pinewood Studios.
Diamonds Are Forever
(1971)
Metal pocket mousetrap-style finger clamp, ‘Bang
You’re Dead’ trick handgun (in a scene cut from the
film). Professor Dr Metz’ (Joseph Furst)
Techtronics identity card.
ABOVE: An extended
version of the scene in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) when Mr. Wint (Bruce
Glover) and Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith) visit Shady Tree (Leonard Barr)
in his Las Vegas dressing room showed Mr. Wint with a silenced
revolver which pops out a ‘Bang You're Dead’ sign. Wint then pulls
the trigger and shoots Shady Tree in the back of the head. Mr.
Kidd then jokes: “Two's company, Mr. Wint”, to which Wint replies:
“And Tree was a crowd, Mr. Kidd”. The scene in the finished film
omits the killing of Shady Tree but shows James Bond (Sean
Connery) discovering his body.
The
Willard Whyte Moon Buggy, which was renovated by 007
MAGAZINE Archive.
Find out
how 007 MAGAZINE rescued one
of the most famous James
Bond props from destruction.
ABOVE: (top left)
May 1971: The Moon Buggy in action at the ‘Johns Manville Gypsum
Plant’ in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas in Diamonds Are
Forever (1971). (bottom left) The Moon Buggy as rediscovered
by Graham Rye in a field in Kent. (right) May 1971: Director Guy
Hamilton (in hat) and Camera Operator Bob Kindred prepare to shoot
close-ups of Sean Connery actually driving the Moon Buggy.
Live And
Let Die (1973)
‘Bug’ detector and C02 Shark Bullet.
The Spy
Who Loved Me (1977)
Two
Stromberg
Submarine Crew uniforms. (below right) Stuntman Rocky Taylor
played one of the many Liparus crewmen in The Spy Who
Loved Me (1977).
Moonraker
(1979)
Belt buckle worn by Drax’s (Michael Lonsdale) space crew.
For Your
Eyes Only (1981)
Roger Moore’s blue t-shirt from the keelhauling sequence.
Fur hat worn by Jacoba Brink (Jill Bennett).
Octopussy (1983)
Roger Moore’s knife-thrower’s shirt and belt, Indian fighting weapon
used by Gobinda (Kabir Bedi), dummy programme for Octopussy’s
circus.
Never Say Never Again (1983) Cruise missile nose cone (used in underwater sequences).
Originally featured in 007 MAGAZINE issue #16 (June 1987) when the 007
MAGAZINE Archive offered it for sale – but no one put in a bid! The dummy
warhead had originally been on display in London in the foyer of the
Classic (formerly Carlton) cinema, Haymarket. When Never Say Never Again finished its
run at the Classic, Warner Bros. were unsure what to do with the prop, so
phoned 007 MAGAZINE publisher Graham Rye with an offer: “If you can remove
it this week you can have it!” It was an offer he couldn’t refuse. The
very large and heavy prop warhead then sat in various storage facilities
until it came to the attention of the producers of Planet Hollywood,
prior to their first restaurant opening in 1991. A deal was struck and the
prop cruise missile took up permanent residence in one of Planet
Hollywood’s US-based restaurants.
The dummy warhead was again
offered in auction by Profiles in History at their Icons &
Legends of Hollywood auction on November 12 & 13, 2020, but once again
the item failed to sell.
A View To A Kill (1985)
Pocket banknote holder/ultra-violet-emitting copier (dummy), Zorin
Industries and Zorin Racing Stables logo linen patches, The Sharper
Image credit card (features James Bond’s signature on reverse)
and Moneypenny’s (Lois Maxwell) Ascot hat.
[See ROLLOVER images for more detail].
The Living
Daylights (1987)
Prototype fibreglass bust of villain Brad Whitaker
(Joe Don Baker) [See ROLLOVER image].
Licence To
Kill (1989) James Bond’s passport photograph and business card, prop
bank notes; chips, drinks coaster, plastic cocktail stick from the
‘Casino de Isthmus City’, prop Polaroid shot of Bond (Timothy
Dalton) and Q (Desmond Llewelyn) ‘taken’
by Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell).
IAN
FLEMING AND HIS SECRET AGENT
007 SHARED THE SAME
TOBACCONIST Ian Fleming creator of secret agent
James Bond 007, smoked hand-made cigarettes from Morland & Co of Grosvenor Street, and passed on this
habit to his fictional hero played by Sean Connery
in Dr. No (1962).
Displayed (below top right) is a reproduction made by the
Goldeneye art department of the Morland & Co
cigarette box from the original (below top left).
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