The 007 films that originally began with the Transamerica logos work so much more effectively without any audio. No music for the first 10 seconds, and then you hear the iconic 007 theme blasting through your ears. MUCH more effective opening!
I remember the You Only Live Twice logo still being used for Her Majesty's Secret Service -- at least I remember that from the ABC-TV (USA) showing in 1976.
Wow, you have the old Transamerica United Artists logo at the beginning of You Only Live Twice!!!! Awesome! I saw that logo on TBS one time when they played Thunderball.
I wasn't alive in 1976, but I doubt OHMSS had the Transamerica circle during its early ABC-TV showings (as R.M. Gutierrez said). To my understanding, OHMSS always began with the 1968 Transamerica T, until 1981.
It always bugged me that they froze the George Lazenby image just after he shoots....you can see the smoke from the gun suddenly just freeze. On all others the actor stood still for the entire duration of the 15 secs or so. Maybe Lazenby lost his balance so they had to freeze it. :)
That's true, as most newer prints -save for the last couple films which were coproduced between MGM and Columbia- replace the original UA ident -as Transamerica ceased their corporate relationship with them by 1981- with a newer one ("shining lights", "the new paperclip" or "silver spikes 2K")
They WERE originally high-pitched and fast-tempoed a bit. The contrast is easily seen, if you take Goldfinger's gunbarrel from different editions (VHS, Special and Ultimate editions, BD). The version from UE would be closer to the original sound, on the BD one the tempo is slowed down.
@@StephenPhillips I don't think it has to do with PAL or NTSC. There is a video of the OHMSS gunbarrel captured on special edition DVD, starting with a fast tempoed and high-pitched UA logo (suggesting it was in PAL format), followed by the gunbarrel up-tempoed but in normal pitch! :D
@@StephenPhillips Sorry, I think I misunderstood your comment about PAL as opposed to NTSC! I assume it concerned your discussion about different editions of the films being high or normal pitched! :D
@Aussiemarco The first Connery gunbarrels, Bob Simmons, the stuntman did them. From Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever, Sean did them. George Lazenby and Roger Moore did all theirs themselves
I have a theory that the reason there wasn't a UA Hexagon for the Bond films before 1967 was because of a distribution/ copyright purpose. Why I think it would only be seen on prints only outside the U.S. As for OHMSS , it's obviously was going to use the blue T Intro since Transamerica was the corporate owners of UA at that time
I saw a video of the gun barrel scene in Dr. No and it had a hexagon logo, but I'm not sure whether or not the hexagon was edited in by the person who posted the video. All I know is that the person who posted it said that this is how it could have been when it was released in theaters.
