The thing I love about these "old" movies is not just the outstanding actors but the old technology, phone box's, classic cars, clothing styles, they are all a historical snapshot of that age.
@@voodoomotion5855 Yes, you still do not not have to do that today, if you go to Uruguay, I've been there, and it's a fascinating country that has their act together, and values highly their personal freedom.
This was a very interesting video. It helped me learn a lot of new things about this scene: - I didn't know that Quarrel was the guy who drove Felix's car - I missed that the photographer was hanging around in the background of some of the other scenes - Similarly, I missed that she had a conversation with Mr. Jones - Never realised that the shots of the plane and control tower shots were stock footage
What's funny, I re-watched the film just a couple weeksd ago, and only just noticed Quarrel was driving the car. I wonder how many tmies I saw the film before that?
I was amazed as a teen in the early 60s to see Dr No and From Russia with love with my parents at an open air theater. I was soon addicted to 007 I read and reread the books several times. There was only one James Bond that was Sean Connery.
good video….the highlight here is the trailer at the end. Never saw it before, the voice overdubs from Connery were a crack-up. That trailer gave away so much of the movie….crazy!
Sean still sounded a bit rough in Dr No By the time he starred in Goldfinger (the same year he starred in Hitchcock’s Marnie), he already had become so elegant in his delivery of speech and performance
I disagree. The first time he speaks in Dr. No, his delivery of "Bond, James Bond" is everything one could possibly ask for. He positively oozes masculine charisma, confidence, and power.
I was born in 62 in the Far East. HA! I'm 62 today. Just realised it. My father used to take me to see the Bond films. My first was Thunderball. As a young bot I was terrified of Sean Connery cos he was no nonsense man and strict. Fast forward 30 years and found myself in America and in motion picture business. I was fired as a PA cos others ganged up on me complaining that I refused a walkie talkie. I hated my English, my accent and embarrased by it so screw walkie talkie. But A KIND 2nd AD somehow rehired me to be an Assistant. To? SEAN CONNERY. Sean specifically stated he did not want a personal costumer, security, publicist or a driver. But somehow I just followed Sean and just be with him for whatever he needed. It was a glorious 4 months. RISING SUN. MrConnery passed away on my birthday. We are in a curious way linked forever Rest In Peace Sir
Great story! Thanks for sharing. My Dad took me to see a double-bill of Bond movies when I was 12-they were the first grown-up, non-Disney films I saw at the cinema. 35 years later, I ended up in the Bond archives, visiting the set, and interviewing the filmmakers to make books about it. Life has a way of surprising you.
What a remarkable experience you had and thanks for sharing it! That zero prima donna factor helps explain much of Connery's on-screen brilliance. And your ability to "just be with him for whatever he needed" and not pester him with superfluities he didn't want makes both of you no-nonsense men which is why you two got along. It's evident you're Connery's kind of guy, and I can't think of a nicer compliment Sir.
Worked at Pinewood 89-91. Was great picturing and easily working out where they did some of the Bond car chases around the studios. Only ever be one James Bond and that's Sean Connery. 👍
I was 12 when this came out, and my mother dropped my off at the theater... having no idea the film probably wasn't quite suitable for pre-teens. I loved it!!!
Me too! i loved the gadgets, had no clue at age 7. when I saw "Goldfinger", and the pretty girlies, I was enamored by the appearance of the Ford Mustang! Ahhh....such child innocence!!!
Jack Lord could have been Felix Leiter in the subsequent Bond films, he could have been a regular character, but Jack Lord demanded equal billing with Sean Connery and equal pay, he also wanted Felix Leiter to have more involvement in the stories, basically he wanted the films to be a double act, Leiter and Bond....Broccoli was already annoyed with Jack Lord for turning up late for the first day of filming , combined with his demands, he dropped him from any future involvement on Bond films..and so the convention of different actors playing Felix came about.
a beat up submariner that belonged to one of the camera men, with an ill fitting nato strap as the clasp had broken lol with no date and a 100 meter resistance, and radium on the dial, they did with what they had and made it work, as its the man that makes the man, not the clothes and bond's act and personality was personally based on Terrance Young, who would go on to make this, from russia with love and thunderball with his, Connery's personal favorite being from russia with love, no surprising given how grounded it was and I must wonder if him and Michael Caine talked about their performance and work with Saltzman given his work on the ipcress files, and funeral in berlin which were done in that more grounded serious style the earlier films were known for
@@kavinskysmith4094 it took Sean Connery to carry everything with such elan, including the “ill fitting” nato strap. I like the Ipcress and the Six Million Dollar Brain a lot, but the James Bond movies were real more like fantasy/ spy genre than anything based on reality.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb yeah six million's the one I havent seen as I heard that one was far out, although I have both ipcress and funeral on VHS, the only way I could find them one of which was from a library lol
The three Bond films that started the series are my personal favorites. Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger in that order. After that, the gadgets started taking over and the raw masculine element in the Bond character started taking a back seat to all the toys he had to use.
In early 1962, my 14yo self experienced what we now call "synchronicity"!....I was in the neighborhood library, and was looking for some spy-adventure-type of book to read...I stumbled onto a few books on the shelf, all having been written by some guy named Ian Fleming. I grabbed one book-DR NO-and began to flip through the pages. My 14 year old brain was stimulated to read of some guy named James Bond, in process of seducing a woman!...Tepid stuff now, but stunning to me back then!...I proceeded to check out the book, and showed the few "hot" passages to my friends, who teased me for being too "excited" about the book. A few days later, a couple of thoughts hit me...I formed a general idea as to what this Bond dude would look like...and I also hoped, that someday a movie would be made. Imagine my happy shock, when, less than a year later, DR NO showed up on the silver screen!...I talked my buddies into attending the premiere...my amazement continued, when Sean Connery appeared, blithely saying "Bond, James Bond"...Yikes!...He looked very much like the imagined Bond in my mind....I was in a dream-like state during the whole movie--and so were my now "converted" friends! I still am bewildered, as to the sheer coincidence of my discovering the Bond books, and then later on, having a movie make my dreams come true! The 1960s truly were magical years!
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself .
My dad took me to see several of the Sean Connery Bond films. I was 7 years old when this one came out. It goes without saying that he was the greatest Bond of all. I later had a neighbor who was a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander in naval intelligence who actually knew Ian Fleming, who of course was also in naval intelligence. It’s a small world.
The girl who played the photographer was not an actress but an attractive clerk who worked at the check in desk and was noticed by the film crew on pre-production location duty and offered a role. (The whole thing was shot on a tight budget).
Well, done! This is quite a unique look inside the process; much more insider detail of the daily process than any typical "behind the scenes" look. Likely more recognized and appreciated by those of us who work/worked in the industry, but I like that folks that do not get a deeper look. Thanks for this. If you have others, I'd love to see them.
Thanks. I saw my first '007' film, the iconic Goldfinger, in 1964 as a young boy. Loved it , followed by this first film, Dr No, outstanding in it's day, 1961, vs many other contemporary films. I later read that Sean Connery's payment for Dr No was circa £600 (quite a lot in 1961), but that SC soon became disenchanted with the producers, given the international box office commercial success and recognition for the franchise. Whilst FRWL was a big success too, I feel it's the 3rd outing, Goldfinger, that truly catapulted the franchise into what it's now become. I understand Sean wanted a £1m+ after finishing Thunderball, then YOLT. One reason why OHMSS featured Aussie, George Lazenby. I admire how the producers kept this 'golden goose' franchise alive (if not always very credible) through many decades, circa 25 films, 3 Ms, 3 Qs and 6 Bonds (excluding the unofficial Niven). I'm now taking an amateur interest in videography and production. Your BTS added a lot to my understanding of how the Jamaican scenes opened and how quick improv was necessary to stop significant delays for lack of light, talent, bad audio, retakes etc. Perhaps you have or will cover further BTS insights? Anyway I liked and subbed.
I lived on Long Island back then. My friends and I were astonished after seeing Dr. No, seeing a great cast and an exciting story. When Bond shot the man who had shown up to kill him, nobody I knew expected what happened. After the Goldfinger film, several of us wore suits and tried vodka martinis. A great series and a great Bond actor.
THIS scene was what showed Bond as a HardCore Killer. He shot the guy.. waited a couple seconds and shot him again. He did this thru the whole magazine, however, it made Connery TOO scary and sadistic to the audience, so they only showed the first couple shots.
I was ten years old when I saw this first in our neighborhood movie theater. I fell in love with 007 movies that day and have been ever since. Sean Connery will always be THE James Bond. All the others are just stand-ins. This is a highly interesting look at how they made films back in the day.
A friend invited me to see this film which I knew nothing about, along with the Fleming books. I was hooked immediately and read through all the books written up to that time and continued through the last one. What great adventures, with good establishment of the settings and interesting cultural details about the exotic locations they were set in.
August 1962, we lowered the Union Jack n became an Independent nation with our own BLACK, GREEN n GOLD flag….Jamaica, we likkle but we tallawah…Ian Fleming’s home is still there in Jamaica….he wrote the books there…
Great video really gives a flavour of the nuts and bolts of film making. I got a kick out of the fact that I read years ago the first day’s filming at Pinewood Studios for Dr No was Monday 26th February 1962, which was the day I was born.
Thanks for that, never seen a video analysis of Dr No before, its one of my fave Bond films, not least cos its the original. I dont think it gets enough love, everyone just goes straight to Goldfinger which I found too over the top personally and nonsensical in parts. Dr No is as much a 60s spy thriller as it is a Bond film.
@@porterhouse_ IMO...1962 was the tail end of the "1950s ethos"...The ensuing years of violence, turmoil, and social turbulence thrust most of the "world" into a future that would be both progressive and regressive, full of social flaws that were going to be addressed, one way or the other. And we "Boomers" were young, and going have our feelings validated!
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself.
If you watch to the end, notice how the original trailer gives away so many big moments in the film - I mistakenly thought this was more of a modern trend in trailers.
The unsung heroines of many films are the script supervisors. They are the source of these take-by-taken notes -- they were the history of the filming on set to guide film editors long after the locations were history and the sets had been dismantled.
Great observation. That's a defining year right there. The most successful British film franchise ever and the most most successful band ever both releasing their debut offerings in the UK. Amazingly 'Dr No' & 'Love Me Do' were released on the SAME day in the UK. 5th October 1962. What are the odds?
This is a great video. Amazing to see how it was filmed. Is it just me or did older film cameras like these used here have more atomsphere? Maybe an expert could explain.
First, they used film. Second, there were different types of film, and developing processes. Third, the cinematographer-in this case Ted Moore-decided the amount of light, and how it was captured by the camera.
Thanks for the great video! I was in Jamaica as a 3 year old kid between the 19 - 21st Jan 1962 with my parents. We stayed in Courtleigh Manor Hotel before flying to Belize. Mum told me I fell in the deep end of the pool and was rescued by one of the cast. To this day I don't now if it was a goody or a baddy who saved me.
The first Bond Movie I saw was Thunderball. Born in 1953, I had entered secondary school in 1964. In Trinidad, all movies had to pass a Board of Censors. Dr No was passed for 14 years and over. This was indicated on the Cinema page of the newspapers. All my school friends of my age were chatty about having seen Dr No. My religious Parents who followed the rules precisely, forbade me from going to see the movie. There were 2 cinemas close to where I lived. A movie only spent a few weeks at a cinema before it was moved. Now, every time I wanted to see a Bond movie, it was always beyond my age. Gold finger was passed for 18 years and over. We live in modern times. A youth of today cannot imagine what it was like in those times. 😮
Same here --I wasn't allowed to see it, but I took a bus to the theater. It was summer, so Mom expected me to be outside playing all afternoon. As one of five children, I wasn't missed. As a kid that almost always followed the rules, Mom didn't suspect a thing.
Have seen this film numerous times, but only now have I noticed Bond says 'take me for a ride', rather than 'take me for a drive'. Tongue in cheek that I missed.
You can tell it was shot out of order, at "slate 9, take 5, Jack Lord gets a light from the car, when just a few minuets ago, he lit up with his own pocket lighter on the mezzanine in the airport. LOL Great stuff, by far one of the best films of all time, and the series. So hard to believe this was filmed when I was a year old.
I saw them all...and eventually became am actor and director myself. Really fascinating to watch and the pace of the shoot was surprisingly fast. One of the few youtube videos I have watched from beginning to end.
And theres never been any movie series where it starts with some guy walking out, turning and shooting straight at you within the first few seconds. Sets the tone up perfectly
Sean for me was my ‘bond’. Not because he was the first but I still ❤everything about the 60’s as a decade(I was born in 1965) I have enjoyed watching this video and to learn more about ‘behind the scenes’. In a number of interviews Sean gave back in the day he mentioned how long filming ran over on each one, saying 6 months spent on YOLT. That meant he could not give first call to other films. I read a book a few years ago written by Robert Sellers about Broccoli and Saltzman and I feel at the end it was not WHAT THEY KNEW about making films BUT WHO THEY KnEW Like Ken Adam Would be interested in watching similar on the other 4 films 👍 👍 😍😍❤️❤️🏴🏴
Happy to hear that you enjoyed the video. Sean Connery was contracted to work on the movies for a number of years, and could work on other movies between Bonds, and he fulfilled his contract to the letter. The producers had many years of experience behind them, and they cast the crew and the actors very well, as well as shaping both the scripts and the final cuts of the movies, so it is unfair to think of them as being observers to the process. Also, they both put their own money into the film-a huge financial risk.
@@wordsmithpd thinking about the huge amount of money made even back then and the money invested it was such a gamble. My late parents met and married in 1963 and were in their mid teens during WW2 and by the early 50’s rationing was still at its height. They went out to the cinema (my parents did not have a TV - not many did) or the Theatre At the Cinema and also at the Theatre every film was drab, black and white and ‘kitchen sink’ living out their own lives. They wanted colour and escapism When they went to see Dr.No they got ESCAPISM and SOOO much more. Fast cars Great food Great fashion And someone who was licensed to kill for his government 👍 👍 🏴🏴
My family vacationed in the Caribbean for 3 summers. I still remember sitting inside a long airport building that was bright and sunny because the whole right wall was made of windows. I suppose I remember that moment because my Dad had just bought me a small, metal British airplane toy, a white Constellation, the one with the triple tail. I had watched this film several times before it dawned on me that THAT was the airport. I was sitting below and to the left of where Jack Lord is standing @12:18. I knew we had been to Jamaca, but I never put the two together. Because of your video, I now know that it was our last vacation trip in the summer of 1961. That was the one where we moved from Maracaibo back to Huntington Beach. Thank you for that information.
must have been early 60s, I was working for Shell BP in Hemel Hempstead and ran the social club. Every month had a movie night and i hired Dr No. had to show it in a few reels with time to change between reels as only one projector. Great movie..
I congratulate you "Wordsmith" on a wonderful, comprehensive encapsulation of what we do for a living. Excellent presentation and layout of the process and result. I love the "graded" non-printed takes. I want more from your capable compilation of these days of organic filmmaking. "Love that without video playback they did a take 7!" Keep them coming I am an instant fan.
Great video. My favourite Bond film with Sean Connery is 'From Russia with love' which was the first film I saw in the cinema when it was released. I have all the films on DVD in my collection. Can't wait for the next Bond film whenever or if one gets released especially as Bond was killed off in the last film with Daniel Craig. Thanks for posting this Wordsmith I look forward to more of these.
I have done that in my book JAMES BOND: DR. NO , published yb TASCHEN. You can watch the unboxing here, where I talk through the making of the film, and show images and documents from the book: ruclips.net/video/z4iMsmmHiXQ/видео.htmlsi=xuNdd6IyDbhD70PR
I’ve seen several of the Bond movies, and Dr. No (for me personally) is the best. Very few special effects which allows the viewer to concentrate on the characters and the story. A bit of trivia: if you look closely at the spider crawling on James Bond’s chest, you ‘ll see that there is a piece of glass between him and the spider.
@@pfcwar5150 Connery was extremely afraid of spiders, and was so anxious during the scene where a tarantula crawls over him in bed, that they had to lay a sheet of glass on him for the spider to crawl up. You can see the glass flattening his skin, in the final version of the movie. For the close ups, stuntman Bob Simmons stepped in. He, too, was scared of spiders, and said it was the most terrifying thing he had ever filmed.
In 1963, I worked in the middle of nowhere at a test site learning Radiation Safety (a contradiction in terms). The whole place was highly contaminated and dangerous. The work environment was scary enough, but if someone had the foresight to build a sign that flashed, “ABANDON AREA,” everybody would have quit.
I watched this vid never thinking I'd really like it all that much. I was wrong. This is interesting to me even though Dr. No is a middling JB movie for me (I like it but it's not anywhere near my favorite). Hoping there'll be more like this.
@@richardmartins1541 When this came out in the early 60's it was only at one outdoor theater in the town I lived in. So myself and three other young boys then, gave an older teenage with a car money to take us to see it. When it was over, he gave all our money back after saying it was the best movie he had ever seen. Thanking us for talking him into going.
What I notice in the Bond/chauffeur scene was the 1960 Cadillac in the background with collapsed air bag suspension in the rear with the front end hiked up. Pity those poor buyers of those cars!
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Wordsmith - This is bloody marvelous - deserving of a million views from grateful Bond fans everywhere.
Very many thanks,
Allan
Glad to hear that you liked it. A million views would be nice... but unlikely.
@@wordsmithpd Never say never...
Already 300k..
The thing I love about these "old" movies is not just the outstanding actors but the old technology, phone box's, classic cars, clothing styles, they are all a historical snapshot of that age.
More relaxed airport security, no need to remove your shoes and belt 😂
@@voodoomotion5855 Yes, you still do not not have to do that today, if you go to Uruguay, I've been there, and it's a fascinating country that has their act together, and values highly their personal freedom.
This was a very interesting video. It helped me learn a lot of new things about this scene:
- I didn't know that Quarrel was the guy who drove Felix's car
- I missed that the photographer was hanging around in the background of some of the other scenes
- Similarly, I missed that she had a conversation with Mr. Jones
- Never realised that the shots of the plane and control tower shots were stock footage
Happy to hear you found it of interest.
They reused the stock footage of the airport in FRWL.
What's funny, I re-watched the film just a couple weeksd ago, and only just noticed Quarrel was driving the car. I wonder how many tmies I saw the film before that?
Pan Am was big on providing footage of their planes to anyone who could use it.
Well done. This mini documentary should have been included on the DR. NO dvd and subsequent digital media. Bravo!
I was amazed as a teen in the early 60s to see Dr No and From Russia with love
with my parents at an open air theater. I was soon addicted to 007 I read and reread the books several times.
There was only one James Bond that was Sean Connery.
good video….the highlight here is the trailer at the end. Never saw it before, the voice overdubs from Connery were a crack-up. That trailer gave away so much of the movie….crazy!
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, it's like a condensed version of the movie with ironic audio commentary from James Bond.
Sean still sounded a bit rough in Dr No
By the time he starred in Goldfinger (the same year he starred in Hitchcock’s Marnie), he already had become so elegant in his delivery of speech and performance
I definitely think he did on location but by the time he got back to Pinewood he was pretty smooth; possibly influenced by Jack Lord's performance?
I disagree. The first time he speaks in Dr. No, his delivery of "Bond, James Bond" is everything one could possibly ask for. He positively oozes masculine charisma, confidence, and power.
I was born in 62 in the Far East. HA! I'm 62 today. Just realised it. My father used to take me to see the Bond films. My first was Thunderball. As a young bot I was terrified of Sean Connery cos he was no nonsense man and strict. Fast forward 30 years and found myself in America and in motion picture business. I was fired as a PA cos others ganged up on me complaining that I refused a walkie talkie. I hated my English, my accent and embarrased by it so screw walkie talkie. But A KIND 2nd AD somehow rehired me to be an Assistant. To? SEAN CONNERY.
Sean specifically stated he did not want a personal costumer, security, publicist or a driver. But somehow I just followed Sean and just be with him for whatever he needed. It was a glorious 4 months. RISING SUN.
MrConnery passed away on my birthday. We are in a curious way linked forever
Rest In Peace Sir
Great story! Thanks for sharing. My Dad took me to see a double-bill of Bond movies when I was 12-they were the first grown-up, non-Disney films I saw at the cinema. 35 years later, I ended up in the Bond archives, visiting the set, and interviewing the filmmakers to make books about it. Life has a way of surprising you.
What a remarkable experience you had and thanks for sharing it! That zero prima donna factor helps explain much of Connery's on-screen brilliance. And your ability to "just be with him for whatever he needed" and not pester him with superfluities he didn't want makes both of you no-nonsense men which is why you two got along. It's evident you're Connery's kind of guy, and I can't think of a nicer compliment Sir.
@@TradinTigerJohn Well said.
I'm so happy for you to have had this unique experience. Thank you for sharing that experience with us.
Happy belated birthday. 🎂🇬🇧
Love this era of Bond ~ Sean Connery is my no.1 Bond. 🏴
Shooper choice 😉
The only real Bond. I think the 60s era had a lot to do with it. However Connery was brilliant in the role.
Dr. No and Goldfinger are my favorites in the series. I love the behind the scenes look
Worked at Pinewood 89-91. Was great picturing and easily working out where they did some of the Bond car chases around the studios. Only ever be one James Bond and that's Sean Connery. 👍
I love all these “behind the scenes” films and photos of “Dr. No”.
It’s one of my all-time favorite Sean Connery/James Bond films.
Happy to hear that you like it!
We've LOVED visiting all these spots on our hosted Jamaica Bond tours!
Great to hear!
I was 12 when this came out, and my mother dropped my off at the theater... having no idea the film probably wasn't quite suitable for pre-teens. I loved it!!!
I was very non existent in 1962. Not until 1977
Me too! i loved the gadgets, had no clue at age 7. when I saw "Goldfinger", and the pretty girlies, I was enamored by the appearance of the Ford Mustang! Ahhh....such child innocence!!!
Jack Lord could have been Felix Leiter in the subsequent Bond films, he could have been a regular character, but Jack Lord demanded equal billing with Sean Connery and equal pay, he also wanted Felix Leiter to have more involvement in the stories, basically he wanted the films to be a double act, Leiter and Bond....Broccoli was already annoyed with Jack Lord for turning up late for the first day of filming , combined with his demands, he dropped him from any future involvement on Bond films..and so the convention of different actors playing Felix came about.
Very interesting.
@@crazyralph6386jack lord must have kicked himself, but probably sacked his agent rather than blame himself
Oh Lord!
Legend has it that Jack Lord’s ego was way over the top.
I liked David Hedison
That grey suit, the blue shirt and the Rolex, the best stylish outfit ever.
a beat up submariner that belonged to one of the camera men, with an ill fitting nato strap as the clasp had broken lol with no date and a 100 meter resistance, and radium on the dial, they did with what they had and made it work, as its the man that makes the man, not the clothes
and bond's act and personality was personally based on Terrance Young, who would go on to make this, from russia with love and thunderball
with his, Connery's personal favorite being from russia with love, no surprising given how grounded it was
and I must wonder if him and Michael Caine talked about their performance and work with Saltzman given his work on the ipcress files, and funeral in berlin
which were done in that more grounded serious style the earlier films were known for
@@kavinskysmith4094 it took Sean Connery to carry everything with such elan, including the “ill fitting” nato strap.
I like the Ipcress and the Six Million Dollar Brain a lot, but the James Bond movies were real more like fantasy/ spy genre than anything based on reality.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb yeah six million's the one I havent seen as I heard that one was far out, although I have both ipcress and funeral on VHS, the only way I could find them
one of which was from a library lol
@@kavinskysmith4094 there were three of the movies initially but two later in the 90’s. The later ones are pretty awful.
@@KamillGran-ch5sb yeah I should probably atleast see that third one atleast, as I saw it had mr ENGLISH! in it lol the general from the second movie.
The nuts and bolts that make up a classic motion picture. Bravo. Takes me back to when everyone wanted to be a secret agent.
The three Bond films that started the series are my personal favorites. Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger in that order. After that, the gadgets started taking over and the raw masculine element in the Bond character started taking a back seat to all the toys he had to use.
Blame film Goldfinger for the Bond we inherited
It was not a good trade off was it
Interesting point.
I love that all these old takes and info are still around after all these years!
So wonderful to see analogue story-telling in a digital world - Excellent.
In early 1962, my 14yo self experienced what we now call "synchronicity"!....I was in the neighborhood library, and was looking for some spy-adventure-type of book to read...I stumbled onto a few books on the shelf, all having been written by some guy named Ian Fleming. I grabbed one book-DR NO-and began to flip through the pages. My 14 year old brain was stimulated to read of some guy named James Bond, in process of seducing a woman!...Tepid stuff now, but stunning to me back then!...I proceeded to check out the book, and showed the few "hot" passages to my friends, who teased me for being too "excited" about the book. A few days later, a couple of thoughts hit me...I formed a general idea as to what this Bond dude would look like...and I also hoped, that someday a movie would be made. Imagine my happy shock, when, less than a year later, DR NO showed up on the silver screen!...I talked my buddies into attending the premiere...my amazement continued, when Sean Connery appeared, blithely saying "Bond, James Bond"...Yikes!...He looked very much like the imagined Bond in my mind....I was in a dream-like state during the whole movie--and so were my now "converted" friends! I still am bewildered, as to the sheer coincidence of my discovering the Bond books, and then later on, having a movie make my dreams come true! The 1960s truly were magical years!
Thanks for this lovely memory.
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself .
Miss Jamaica 61. ❤
That photographer girl was stunning!
Her or the snooping secretary with the red nails. Both extremely
sexy women.
First time I went to a movie theater, went with my Mom and Dad in Phoenix, Az. I was 9 or 10 years old. It was a fantastic memory.
My first Bond film. It thrilled me as only a kid of those times could be thrilled.
Broccoli was so mad at Jack Lord he screamed: "I'll never 'book him' again!" 😂
No one could ever replace Sir Sean Connery as James Bond.
My dad took me to see several of the Sean Connery Bond films. I was 7 years old when this one came out. It goes without saying that he was the greatest Bond of all. I later had a neighbor who was a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander in naval intelligence who actually knew Ian Fleming, who of course was also in naval intelligence. It’s a small world.
The girl who played the photographer was not an actress but an attractive clerk who worked at the check in desk and was noticed by the film crew on pre-production location duty and offered a role. (The whole thing was shot on a tight budget).
I like that version of “Jump Up”. I love these early Bond biographies.
Well, done! This is quite a unique look inside the process; much more insider detail of the daily process than any typical "behind the scenes" look. Likely more recognized and appreciated by those of us who work/worked in the industry, but I like that folks that do not get a deeper look. Thanks for this. If you have others, I'd love to see them.
Thanks. Yes, I'd love to do more, and I will when I find the time...
Thanks. I saw my first '007' film, the iconic Goldfinger, in 1964 as a young boy. Loved it , followed by this first film, Dr No, outstanding in it's day, 1961, vs many other contemporary films. I later read that Sean Connery's payment for Dr No was circa £600 (quite a lot in 1961), but that SC soon became disenchanted with the producers, given the international box office commercial success and recognition for the franchise. Whilst FRWL was a big success too, I feel it's the 3rd outing, Goldfinger, that truly catapulted the franchise into what it's now become. I understand Sean wanted a £1m+ after finishing Thunderball, then YOLT. One reason why OHMSS featured Aussie, George Lazenby. I admire how the producers kept this 'golden goose' franchise alive (if not always very credible) through many decades, circa 25 films, 3 Ms, 3 Qs and 6 Bonds (excluding the unofficial Niven).
I'm now taking an amateur interest in videography and production. Your BTS added a lot to my understanding of how the Jamaican scenes opened and how quick improv was necessary to stop significant delays for lack of light, talent, bad audio, retakes etc. Perhaps you have or will cover further BTS insights? Anyway I liked and subbed.
I lived on Long Island back then. My friends and I were astonished after seeing Dr. No, seeing a great cast and an exciting story. When Bond shot the man who had shown up to kill him, nobody I knew expected what happened. After the Goldfinger film, several of us wore suits and tried vodka martinis. A great series and a great Bond actor.
....and no doubt several people tried out a Ford Mustang after seeing it's debut in Goldfinger, as well.
THIS scene was what showed Bond as a HardCore Killer. He shot the guy.. waited a couple seconds and shot him again. He did this thru the whole magazine, however, it made Connery TOO scary and sadistic to the audience, so they only showed the first couple shots.
Sweet Jamaica
Also a wonderful lesson in both filmmaking and screenwriting from a great movie
I was ten years old when I saw this first in our neighborhood movie theater. I fell in love with 007 movies that day and have been ever since. Sean Connery will always be THE James Bond. All the others are just stand-ins. This is a highly interesting look at how they made films back in the day.
A friend invited me to see this film which I knew nothing about, along with the Fleming books. I was hooked immediately and read through all the books written up to that time and continued through the last one. What great adventures, with good establishment of the settings and interesting cultural details about the exotic locations they were set in.
What a gem!
Sean Connery was brilliant at playing Sean Connery.
I like the product placement in the Bond movies. For me, it was seeing the new Ford Mustang in Goldfinger, when I was a 7 year old boy.
My second favorite bond film, after only the GOAT. Goldfinger
This is superb! Thanks for researching and doing this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
August 1962, we lowered the Union Jack n became an Independent nation with our own BLACK, GREEN n GOLD flag….Jamaica, we likkle but we tallawah…Ian Fleming’s home is still there in Jamaica….he wrote the books there…
Superb coverage of this historic film.
This is an excellently watchable video and topic.
Thank you.
Thank you. Love this sort of Film Buff. Thanks
Great video really gives a flavour of the nuts and bolts of film making. I got a kick out of the fact that I read years ago the first day’s filming at Pinewood Studios for Dr No was Monday 26th February 1962, which was the day I was born.
Thanks for that, never seen a video analysis of Dr No before, its one of my fave Bond films, not least cos its the original. I dont think it gets enough love, everyone just goes straight to Goldfinger which I found too over the top personally and nonsensical in parts. Dr No is as much a 60s spy thriller as it is a Bond film.
This was VERY interesting - more please!
Thanks. When I get time, I'll make something similar on another film.
Enjoyed it. It was my introduction to JB as a kid. The licking of the bulb was a brilliant touch of malevolent intent.
Glad you liked it!
I agree. It told you so much without words.
'62, a perfect year all around.
Yher - it worked out: the world avoided nuclear war due to that 'small disagreement' in Cuba a 100 miles north or so later in the year.
Someone said it was the last really good year
@@porterhouse_ IMO...1962 was the tail end of the "1950s ethos"...The ensuing years of violence, turmoil, and social turbulence thrust most of the "world" into a future that would be both progressive and regressive, full of social flaws that were going to be addressed, one way or the other. And we "Boomers" were young, and going have our feelings validated!
@@porterhouse_just look at Wikipedia-1962 so much happened it was immense. Didn’t even mention Beatles and their first single Oct 1962.
@@mikewa2 who needs wikipedia... I lived it
I saw the movie when it came out and went into shock. I had never seen anything like it. Years later, my late wife was Broccoli;s 5th grade teacher.
Never thought about them removing glass to avoid camera reflection. Thanks for that detail.
Glad to help
The movie that turned my life into vibrant colors... I was 9 ❤
Dr. No was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 5. Years later I found 3 Bond novels around the house - LIVE AND LET DIE / OHMSS / and CASINO ROYALE. I was confused because Fleming described Bond as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael. In my mind as I read all 14 novels, though I tried, I had trouble envisioning Connery. Connery was by far the best Bond, but when I saw the Timothy Dalton movies, I thought he was the guy who mostly resembled what my adolescent mind had envisioned. But certainly never Hoagy Carmichael - who strangely looks like Fleming himself.
Dalton was without doubt the perfect Bond. When you read the books it's he that you can see as Bond.
Your parents let you see that at 5 ?
@@collin6238 It was 1962!!
Wow I love this detail of the film management! It’s an extraordinary story more interesting than the film!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a pleasure
Fascinating video!
Thank you. Happy to hear you enjoyed it!
@@wordsmithpd You should do more in this style. I love the early Bond movies.
When I have time, I'll try to do some more. The information/images are not always available.
I do not miss the days when trailers showed you the entire movie.
If you watch to the end, notice how the original trailer gives away so many big moments in the film - I mistakenly thought this was more of a modern trend in trailers.
The sets are stars as well in this movie
I’ve seen dr no many times and never noticed that Quarrel was the driver.
Nice that after 52 years of filming you are still discovering something new
The unsung heroines of many films are the script supervisors. They are the source of these take-by-taken notes -- they were the history of the filming on set to guide film editors long after the locations were history and the sets had been dismantled.
1962 DR.NO started the famous franchise .
1962 Ringo joined The Beatles .
Great observation. That's a defining year right there. The most successful British film franchise ever and the most most successful band ever both releasing their debut offerings in the UK.
Amazingly 'Dr No' & 'Love Me Do' were released on the SAME day in the UK. 5th October 1962. What are the odds?
This is a great video. Amazing to see how it was filmed. Is it just me or did older film cameras like these used here have more atomsphere? Maybe an expert could explain.
First, they used film. Second, there were different types of film, and developing processes. Third, the cinematographer-in this case Ted Moore-decided the amount of light, and how it was captured by the camera.
@@wordsmithpd Thanks for that :)
Thanks for the great video! I was in Jamaica as a 3 year old kid between the 19 - 21st Jan 1962 with my parents. We stayed in Courtleigh Manor Hotel before flying to Belize. Mum told me I fell in the deep end of the pool and was rescued by one of the cast. To this day I don't now if it was a goody or a baddy who saved me.
What a great story. Obviously, they were a goody!
Who Helped Was Jack Lord Who Had Worn Sunglasses.
The first Bond Movie I saw was Thunderball. Born in 1953, I had entered secondary school in 1964. In Trinidad, all movies had to pass a Board of Censors. Dr No was passed for 14 years and over. This was indicated on the Cinema page of the newspapers. All my school friends of my age were chatty about having seen Dr No. My religious Parents who followed the rules precisely, forbade me from going to see the movie. There were 2 cinemas close to where I lived. A movie only spent a few weeks at a cinema before it was moved. Now, every time I wanted to see a Bond movie, it was always beyond my age. Gold finger was passed for 18 years and over. We live in modern times. A youth of today cannot imagine what it was like in those times. 😮
Same here --I wasn't allowed to see it, but I took a bus to the theater. It was summer, so Mom expected me to be outside playing all afternoon. As one of five children, I wasn't missed. As a kid that almost always followed the rules, Mom didn't suspect a thing.
Have seen this film numerous times, but only now have I noticed Bond says 'take me for a ride', rather than 'take me for a drive'. Tongue in cheek that I missed.
Film fan here... wasn't born when this film was made. Thanks for your documentation and telling the story!
My pleasure!
You can tell it was shot out of order, at "slate 9, take 5, Jack Lord gets a light from the car, when just a few minuets ago, he lit up with his own pocket lighter on the mezzanine in the airport. LOL Great stuff, by far one of the best films of all time, and the series. So hard to believe this was filmed when I was a year old.
I saw them all...and eventually became am actor and director myself. Really fascinating to watch and the pace of the shoot was surprisingly fast. One of the few youtube videos I have watched from beginning to end.
And theres never been any movie series where it starts with some guy walking out, turning and shooting straight at you within the first few seconds. Sets the tone up perfectly
Sean for me was my ‘bond’. Not because he was the first but I still ❤everything about the 60’s as a decade(I was born in 1965)
I have enjoyed watching this video and to learn more about ‘behind the scenes’.
In a number of interviews Sean gave back in the day he mentioned how long filming ran over on each one, saying 6 months spent on YOLT.
That meant he could not give first call to other films.
I read a book a few years ago written by Robert Sellers about Broccoli and Saltzman and I feel at the end it was not WHAT THEY KNEW about making films BUT WHO THEY KnEW
Like Ken Adam
Would be interested in watching similar on the other 4 films
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Happy to hear that you enjoyed the video.
Sean Connery was contracted to work on the movies for a number of years, and could work on other movies between Bonds, and he fulfilled his contract to the letter.
The producers had many years of experience behind them, and they cast the crew and the actors very well, as well as shaping both the scripts and the final cuts of the movies, so it is unfair to think of them as being observers to the process. Also, they both put their own money into the film-a huge financial risk.
@@wordsmithpd thinking about the huge amount of money made even back then and the money invested it was such a gamble.
My late parents met and married in 1963 and were in their mid teens during WW2 and by the early 50’s rationing was still at its height. They went out to the cinema (my parents did not have a TV - not many did) or the Theatre
At the Cinema and also at the Theatre every film was drab, black and white and ‘kitchen sink’ living out their own lives. They wanted colour and escapism
When they went to see Dr.No they got ESCAPISM and SOOO much more.
Fast cars
Great food
Great fashion
And someone who was licensed to kill for his government
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Sean Connery ❤❤❤ is Bond
The best true Bond aficionado video I have seen. And I have watched quite a few!
Thanks. I appreciate the comment.
My family vacationed in the Caribbean for 3 summers. I still remember sitting inside a long airport building that was bright and sunny because the whole right wall was made of windows. I suppose I remember that moment because my Dad had just bought me a small, metal British airplane toy, a white Constellation, the one with the triple tail. I had watched this film several times before it dawned on me that THAT was the airport. I was sitting below and to the left of where Jack Lord is standing @12:18. I knew we had been to Jamaca, but I never put the two together. Because of your video, I now know that it was our last vacation trip in the summer of 1961. That was the one where we moved from Maracaibo back to Huntington Beach. Thank you for that information.
Glad to hear the video brought back some happy memories!
Fantastic video...Thabk you so much...The Worlds biggest James Bond fan
must have been early 60s, I was working for Shell BP in Hemel Hempstead and ran the social club. Every month had a movie night and i hired Dr No. had to show it in a few reels with time to change between reels as only one projector. Great movie..
In the Harvard Lampoon's Ian Fleming/ James Bond parody book "Alligator" (1962), Quarrel was renamed "Squabble". It is fun read.
In Japane the title for 'Dr. No' wound up being called 'We Don't Want a Doctor!' (in Japanese).
Title lost in translation I think!
(No doctor)
Many thanks for producing this ....very interesting !!..Connery. the best bond !!
Glad you enjoyed it
I congratulate you "Wordsmith" on a wonderful, comprehensive encapsulation of what we do for a living. Excellent presentation and layout of the process and result. I love the "graded" non-printed takes. I want more from your capable compilation of these days of organic filmmaking. "Love that without video playback they did a take 7!" Keep them coming I am an instant fan.
Many thanks!
Recently saw some " on set " pics taken during the shoot . Really fascinating .!
The new book is full of them... www.taschen.com/en/limited-editions/film/08152/james-bond-dr-no/
Great video. My favourite Bond film with Sean Connery is 'From Russia with love' which was the first film I saw in the cinema when it was released. I have all the films on DVD in my collection. Can't wait for the next Bond film whenever or if one gets released especially as Bond was killed off in the last film with Daniel Craig. Thanks for posting this Wordsmith I look forward to more of these.
It's funny that at the time of Dr.No,1962, here, in Puerto Rico they had built a nuclear reactor on our west coast at Rincón.
Great behind the scenes look into Bond and big budget film making overall. I'd love to see a breakdown of the whole film day by day.
I have done that in my book JAMES BOND: DR. NO , published yb TASCHEN. You can watch the unboxing here, where I talk through the making of the film, and show images and documents from the book: ruclips.net/video/z4iMsmmHiXQ/видео.htmlsi=xuNdd6IyDbhD70PR
I’ve seen several of the Bond movies, and Dr. No (for me personally) is the best. Very few special effects which allows the viewer to concentrate on the characters and the story. A bit of trivia: if you look closely at the spider crawling on James Bond’s chest, you ‘ll see that there is a piece of glass between him and the spider.
No… the spider was crawling on a projector screen with the film of bond and the bed playing on it
@@pfcwar5150 Connery was extremely afraid of spiders, and was so anxious during the scene where a tarantula crawls over him in bed, that they had to lay a sheet of glass on him for the spider to crawl up. You can see the glass flattening his skin, in the final version of the movie. For the close ups, stuntman Bob Simmons stepped in. He, too, was scared of spiders, and said it was the most terrifying thing he had ever filmed.
In 1963, I worked in the middle of nowhere at a test site learning Radiation Safety (a contradiction in terms). The whole place was highly contaminated and dangerous. The work environment was scary enough, but if someone had the foresight to build a sign that flashed, “ABANDON AREA,” everybody would have quit.
LOL
I was 15 and couldn't stop talking about the film to everybody. I met.
I’m not a huge Bond fan but I love seeing how the sausage is made.
Well planned n executed (showed out) movie, the 1st of its kind spy thrillers, thrilled the audience. Thank u.
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I watched this vid never thinking I'd really like it all that much. I was wrong. This is interesting to me even though Dr. No is a middling JB movie for me (I like it but it's not anywhere near my favorite). Hoping there'll be more like this.
The 1960s were by far the greatest years the world ever had.
Swinging sixties
@@richardmartins1541 When this came out in the early 60's it was only at one outdoor theater in the town I lived in. So myself and three other young boys then, gave an older teenage with a car money to take us to see it. When it was over, he gave all our money back after saying it was the best movie he had ever seen. Thanking us for talking him into going.
Very interesting, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Very interesting video, giving us insight into how a movie is put together. I hope you put up more of these videos!
This was absolutely AWESOME! I could watch many videos like this, all about the background and process of making movies that now classics…
Wow, thanks!
forever my favourite well done duncan
Thank you!
Air induction sound from 1961 Chevy chasing 1957 Chevy identical as both had the 283 c.i. 4 bbl V-8
Superb! An enjoyable documentary!
Many thanks!
What I notice in the Bond/chauffeur scene was the 1960 Cadillac in the background with collapsed air bag suspension in the rear with the front end hiked up. Pity those poor buyers of those cars!
If I were to pick, I would go for the lass in green ...simply stunning 😊
I loved this film, but to add realism is brilliant