THE NAME’S UPDATE, JAMES UPDATE

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Hey! It’s been ages but I’m back. And it’s update time again. Crack out the John Barry cos this one has a James Bond theme. It’s all stuff I have posted about before but now I have found a bunch of them in OO7 flicks. 



I posted about this grey computer a couple of times recently. It can be found in The Green Death, The Three Doctors, and a load more stories. You can read about it here and here. I think I’ve now possibly found their origin. Check out the screen grabs below for their Bond appearances.




DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, 1971

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, 1974


Unsurprisingly, the ever green UFO props also appear in Bond. I’ve posted extensively about these wide blue computer units that show up everywhere in the 1970s. Too many to link, you’ll have to find all the posts or refer to The Catalogue. 
They get a paint job for Bond. Scroll down
to see how they appeared in screen.





DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, 1971


And yet another popular UFO prop. Scroll to see its big screen cameo. It can be found in the right of the image, lurking in the background. 








LIVE AND LET DIE, 1973


Another popular prop, the International Electromatics computer (and variants of it) has been found in a bunch of different TV shows. Here’s another early appearance. 




YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1967

Thanks for taking a look, I’ll be back soon. 


  






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