26 November 2013

From Russia With Love - Title sequence

From Russia With Love titles

My boyfriend recently got the Bond Blu-Ray boxset as a gift and we have been working our way through the films in order. I think I am a bit 'Bonded-out'. There is only so many times you wanna see Sean Connery punch a woman in one evening - but I wanted to the share the amazing projected title sequence created by adman Robert Brownjohn on a budget of £850.

From Russia With Love titles

The projection! The font! The girls!

 
Brownjohn, who abhorred storyboards and scripts, pitched the concept to Saltzman and Broccoli by removing his own shirt and standing in front of a slide projector. “It’ll be just like this,” he said, “except we’ll use a pretty girl!”

 Read more about it here.

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