No segues directly into the credits, a grid matrix of large-scale, bright and rapidly changing colored circular dots against a black background. The ' James Bond Theme' then plays very loudly, albeit with the first portion, featuring the theme's faced plucked electric guitar riff, is truncated. The sequence is accompanied by a soundtrack of electronic noises and then numerous notes that sound like they are being plinked from a wind-up jack in the box the latter is cut short by the gunshot. The text is wiped and the dot continues the sequence. Broccoli present' appears across the dot.

No (1962), the white dot stops mid-screen and the credit line ' Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Simmons hops slightly as he pivots to assume the firing position and, following the blood wash, the dot becomes smaller and jumps to the lower right-hand corner of the frame before simply vanishing. The gun barrel is seen from the assassin's perspective - looking down at a walking James Bond, who quickly turns and shoots the scene reddens (signifying the spilling of the gunman's blood), the gun barrel dissolves to a circle, and the film begins.īecause Binder had designed the gun barrel sequence to feature James Bond only in silhouette, with a non-widescreen aspect ratio, he used stunt man Bob Simmons, rather than Sean Connery, to film the scene.

Upon reaching the extreme right of the screen, the dot changes to the view through the barrel of a gun. In the sequence, a series of white dots scroll across the screen from (the viewer's perspective) left to right. The look of the sequence was achieved with a pin hole camera shooting through a real gun barrel. The sequence is credited to Maurice Binder, a famous title designer who created the opening titles for 14 Bond films. The gun barrel sequence is an iconic opening to every official James Bond film beginning with the first, Dr. And then the blood comes down the screen, you see? They liked the idea, but it didn't come to life until I filmed it.' ― Maurice Binder I thought it would be a good idea to look down the gun barrel and see James Bond as he walked out, firing at you. I had these little white price stickers, and I put them on a black storyboard. I figured the gunshot thing across the screen would be effective. ' I had to design a title for Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli to show them just what I wanted to do.

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