this one.
I was also armed with a safe-cracking device concealed within a cigarette case; a mini-camera imprinted with 007; and a laser gun. Oh, and I stole a poison pen from CIA agent Holly Goodhead’s toys. Bond used this particular gadget to dispose of Drax’s pet python. I think when you have to act alongside a twelve-foot-long rubber snake – and try to appear more animated than it – you know you’ve cracked this acting lark.
My flexible friend. Handy for opening any lock, and paying for lunch, too.
FABERGÉ EGGS TO FAKE CROCS
My trusty Seiko survived to accompany me in
For Your Eyes Only,
where it received digital message read-outs and operated as a two-way radio/transmitter for voice communications, much to the Prime Minister’s surprise.
The main object of the film’s story was to locate and retrieve the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), which had been lost when the British spy ship
St Georges
was sunk. This device controlled all of Britain’s Polaris nuclear submarines and could either render them inoperative or coordinate them against major Western cities or, heaven forbid, against Britain herself. In its pursuit I helped Q load up the Identigraph device to assemble a photo of our suspect by selecting characteristics from a variety of lists including hair colour, hairstyle, nose form, style of eyeglasses etc. Poor Desmond Llewelyn had terrible trouble setting up the machine and remembering his complicated lines, so I took over the technical end and it worked rather well.
In
Octopussy
, Q fixed a listening and homing device inside the Fabergé egg.
When
Octopussy
came around, the Seiko graduated to containing a universal radio direction finder, working in conjunction with a listening device inside Bond’s fountain pen and the fake Fabergé egg. I also employed loaded backgammon dice – though not in my games with Cubby – and a Mont Blanc fountain pen that contained a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids. Have you seen the price of refills for those things?
An innocent-looking pair of CK glasses. But touch a switch and it sets off a detonator in Jim’s P99 gun.
One of the fun gadgets – or is it a mode of transport? – was the ‘fake crocodile’, actually a miniature motorboat used to get Jimmy to Octopussy’s Island. I bravely climbed into it for the close-ups, but allowed Paul Weston to drive it in the scene, just in case a
real
frisky crocodile wandered into shot. That might have been tricky!
In my last outing as Jim I was armed with all manner of useful gizmos. There were polarizing sunglasses that let Jim see clearly through tinted glass; a ring containing a miniature camera; a billfold that used ultraviolet light to read previously written material by picking up the indentations of pen marks on paper; a bug detector contained within an electric razor; a credit card for popping open locked windows; a tracking device to locate a stolen microchip buried in the snow; and, of course, SNOOPER – one of Q’s surveillance inventions in the form of a small, animal-like remote-controlled camera that can transmit audio/video.
GADGET HEAVEN
After my tenure as 007 ended, Q stayed on to look after Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. Their haul of gadgets was ever impressive and ingenious. In
The Living Daylights
Q produced a Philips Keychain, which had become widely popular in locating lost keys. However, Q’s contained some non-standard extras, including a capsule of stun gas, activated by the first bars of ‘Rule, Britannia’, and an explosive charge set off by a wolf whistle! The keychain also featured a lock-pick, effective on ninety per cent of the world’s locks …
This innocent-looking electric shaver is actually a sophisticated bug detector in
A View To A Kill
.
In his second film with Timothy Dalton, Q found himself in the field and carried a bag of everyday travel items including Dentonite Toothpaste – actually plastic explosive with the detonator disguised as
I was also armed with a safe-cracking device concealed within a cigarette case; a mini-camera imprinted with 007; and a laser gun. Oh, and I stole a poison pen from CIA agent Holly Goodhead’s toys. Bond used this particular gadget to dispose of Drax’s pet python. I think when you have to act alongside a twelve-foot-long rubber snake – and try to appear more animated than it – you know you’ve cracked this acting lark.
My flexible friend. Handy for opening any lock, and paying for lunch, too.
FABERGÉ EGGS TO FAKE CROCS
My trusty Seiko survived to accompany me in
For Your Eyes Only,
where it received digital message read-outs and operated as a two-way radio/transmitter for voice communications, much to the Prime Minister’s surprise.
The main object of the film’s story was to locate and retrieve the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), which had been lost when the British spy ship
St Georges
was sunk. This device controlled all of Britain’s Polaris nuclear submarines and could either render them inoperative or coordinate them against major Western cities or, heaven forbid, against Britain herself. In its pursuit I helped Q load up the Identigraph device to assemble a photo of our suspect by selecting characteristics from a variety of lists including hair colour, hairstyle, nose form, style of eyeglasses etc. Poor Desmond Llewelyn had terrible trouble setting up the machine and remembering his complicated lines, so I took over the technical end and it worked rather well.
In
Octopussy
, Q fixed a listening and homing device inside the Fabergé egg.
When
Octopussy
came around, the Seiko graduated to containing a universal radio direction finder, working in conjunction with a listening device inside Bond’s fountain pen and the fake Fabergé egg. I also employed loaded backgammon dice – though not in my games with Cubby – and a Mont Blanc fountain pen that contained a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids. Have you seen the price of refills for those things?
An innocent-looking pair of CK glasses. But touch a switch and it sets off a detonator in Jim’s P99 gun.
One of the fun gadgets – or is it a mode of transport? – was the ‘fake crocodile’, actually a miniature motorboat used to get Jimmy to Octopussy’s Island. I bravely climbed into it for the close-ups, but allowed Paul Weston to drive it in the scene, just in case a
real
frisky crocodile wandered into shot. That might have been tricky!
In my last outing as Jim I was armed with all manner of useful gizmos. There were polarizing sunglasses that let Jim see clearly through tinted glass; a ring containing a miniature camera; a billfold that used ultraviolet light to read previously written material by picking up the indentations of pen marks on paper; a bug detector contained within an electric razor; a credit card for popping open locked windows; a tracking device to locate a stolen microchip buried in the snow; and, of course, SNOOPER – one of Q’s surveillance inventions in the form of a small, animal-like remote-controlled camera that can transmit audio/video.
GADGET HEAVEN
After my tenure as 007 ended, Q stayed on to look after Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. Their haul of gadgets was ever impressive and ingenious. In
The Living Daylights
Q produced a Philips Keychain, which had become widely popular in locating lost keys. However, Q’s contained some non-standard extras, including a capsule of stun gas, activated by the first bars of ‘Rule, Britannia’, and an explosive charge set off by a wolf whistle! The keychain also featured a lock-pick, effective on ninety per cent of the world’s locks …
This innocent-looking electric shaver is actually a sophisticated bug detector in
A View To A Kill
.
In his second film with Timothy Dalton, Q found himself in the field and carried a bag of everyday travel items including Dentonite Toothpaste – actually plastic explosive with the detonator disguised as
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