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Behind the Scenes
Ever since Sean Connery donned the tuxedo for the first time in 1962’s Dr. No, every James Bond film has been met with much fanfare and excitement the world over. 007 has become an institution and the most successful film series ever produced. During the filming of the early Bond productions, Daily Mirror photographers were granted exclusive access to Pinewood Studios. The relaxed, casual nature of their images is a far cry from the restricted and carefully stage-managed pictures we get for modern Bond films. Now Mirrorpix has opened their archives to this vast collection of behind-the-scenes images of the making of the Bond films. Enjoy this glimpse of what it was really like on the set of a James Bond film when the series was in its early days.
28th October, 2024 in Entertainment
The search for an actor to play James Bond did not start with the journey that ultimately led to the monumental casting of Sean Connery in 1962, but a full three years before in 1959 when 007 looked like making his cinematic debut in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. After yea…
13th June, 2023 in Special Editions
This fine press edition will be strictly limited to 350 copies and will include a new foreword by Live and Let Die actress Madeline Smith, a signed post card from Madeline Smith, and a reproduction of two tarot cards featuring the bespoke Live and Let Die artw…
21st September, 2016 in Entertainment
When Harry Saltzman and Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli produced Dr. No in 1962, they brought together an artistic and technical family, some of whom went on to become legends in the film industry: John Barry, Ken Adam, Ted Moore, Maurice Binder, not to mention Sean Connery. Norman Wan…
13th April, 2016 in Entertainment
James Bond experts Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury set right some wrongs about the James Bond films. Having been James Bond scholars for many years we noted how increasingly everybody was becoming a James Bond fan. After years of having to explain to non-fans – ‘civilians’ – the…
13th April, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, Entertainment, Fiction
The idea of writing a spy novel had apparently been in Fleming’s mind for a decade before he finally decided to commit the book to paper. Little did he know the phenomenon he was about to create when he sat down behind his typewriter on the morning of 15 January 1952 to start the…
14th January, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, Entertainment
In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema’s most famous secret agent. Among many humorous and touching anecdotes, Mills reveals how he became an int…
