You Only Live Twice, 1967

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You Only Live Twice, 1967
Peter Hunt's shooting script for You Only Live Twice, dated 17th June, 1966, 142pp. of mimeographed typescript including several pages of script revisions, various dates up to 4th October, some pages annotated with blue ballpoint pen or pencil in Hunt's hand with his notes on camera directions, observations and amendments to the scenes and script, other amendments to the script in red typescript; accompanied by related mimeographed typescript documents: Notes And Minor Alterations To Script, 7pp.; and New Continuity End Seq., 2pp., all bound in black cloth boards; and two further folders, one titled "You Only Live Twice" Reel Breakdown, approximately 90pp. including breakdown of music, bound in red cloth boards and a Breakdown, Index/Set And Scene Numbers, approximately 103pp. giving details of props, vehicles and other special requirements for each scene, bound in black cloth boards (3)

Literature

"The Peter Hunt Interview" by Gary Giblin, Secret Intelligence webzine, 1998, www.secretintel.com/archives

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Lot Essay

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was apparently originally scheduled to follow Thunderball instead of You Only Live Twice. Peter Hunt was given the Second Unit Director role in You Only Live Twice and was responsible for the filming of the Little Nellie scenes. According to Hunt, these scenes were originally conceived as a car chase, which Hunt felt was rather formulaic and dull. When scouting locations in a helicopter (see Lot 159), he had the idea of using one of these instead of a car for the chase scenes. Production Designer, Ken Adam heard about Wing Commander Ken Wallis' autogyro, Little Nellie, on the radio and simultaneously, Harry Saltzman saw photographs of it in an Aviation magazine and the rest is Bond history.

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