Dogbreath wrote
> A guy named Maurice Binder was the
> creator and stylist of all of those credit sequences, dating all the way
> back to the start (I think).
He certainly did the first one, _Dr. No_. It happens I saw it again
last night. Those credits were inspired by the flashing light computer
consoles of the era. (Ten years later, when flower power reached Oz, it's
said that the night operator at one of the larger sites here used to
kill the machine room lights, fire up a bong, and descend into
psychedelia watching the mainframe console.)
The sets on _Dr. No_, by Ken Adam, are design classics. This is
my favourite Bond film, because it's closest to the books. _Dr. No_
was, I think, also the first book, and Fleming painted Bond as a real
pratt (US: preppy turd). He embodied all that stank and all that
was good in the British imperialist. Connery tried for this in the
first film - Bond is arrogant, rude and racist - but changed it
a bit in the later films. The Roger Moore Bond is great fun but
no longer Fleming's character. Timothy Dalton looks and sounds
like a carpeting consultant. Lazenby was good but the victim of a
dud script.
> But would Bond have been an OM man?
In _Diamonds are Forever_ the effeminate bad guys use a Nikon F with
non-metering finder. I read somewhere that spies really did use the Minox,
the little camera which winds by telescoping. Since Bond has no need to
make a phallic statement, he can use a small camera. Mostly he
prefers his photographic memory.
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