"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Ian Fleming creates James Bond in 1952, and by the end of that decade the character has made quite an impact in the world of popular literature." "In the 1960s, secret agent 007 becomes a cultural icon." "But, James, I need you." "So does England." "In the summer of 1977, the success of "The Spy Who Loved Me"" "firmly establishes the character's enduring popularity and gives producer Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli enormous clout to make his next 007 adventure the biggest yet." "For James Bond the sky is no longer the limit." "After our last picture, The Spy Who Loved Me, we've done twice as much business on that film as we've done on any other Bond film, including your Sean Connerys." "We've found that the public is more interested than ever." "At the close of "The Spy Who Loved Me", filmmakers announce the next Bond film will be "For Your Eyes Only"." "With the resurgent popularity of science fiction," "Cubby Broccoli and United Artists quickly decide to change course and film lan Fleming's third Bond novel, "Moonraker"." "James Bond into space, out and beyond." "007." "Fleming's story of a mad industrialist who builds an ICBM with an atomic warhead aimed at London is considered too tame for the times." "When he wrote "Moonraker"" "it was a little, piddling rocket that went up to destroy London." "Nobody would notice, especially when you've just done a movie in which somebody is going to destroy the world." "We have to advance ourselves with the story." "The filmmakers keep the name of the villain and little else." "Work immediately starts on building a story." "We were very interested in making a spectacular film, an extravagant film." "That was the concept:" "Bigger and better." "Cubby decided we had to go into space." "And NASA was planning to get their space shuttle off before our film got off." "We were hoping to coincide with the shuttle going up for real, and we would open our picture with a shuttle in it." "Marvellous!" "The concept of James Bond in space seems irresistible, but Cubby Broccoli wants to make certain the film will be based on reality." "We're not science fiction." "We're science fact." "With that edict, the writing process begins." "The working process on any Bond movie, in terms of writing the script, is a fairly communal activity." "It's all done by committee, it's a team." "The beauty of the Bond films is that there was no hierarchy when it came to ideas." "You could have been the accounts assistant with some outrageous idea, and that would have been taken on board." "We seem to know what the public wants." "We had to go for some things, so we went for the action and the comedy." "One of the problems with writing a James Bond movie is to find places to go to which are exotic and exciting, which nobody has been to." "I went with Bill Cartlidge to India and Nepal." "We looked around to see what we could do there." "From that trip we reckoned we'd need a lot more preparation than we had time for." "Ultimately we went there on "Octopussy"." "It has to be right for the story and we just couldn't see the elements." "For one key location the crew travels to Brazil." "I came down here on a trip and suddenly saw all of this, and it gave us an idea." "Cubby was taken on a trip to Iguazu Falls..." "He looks at the second-largest falls in the world, totally unexploited by filmmakers, and says:" ""We've gotta shoot some of James Bond there."" "In those days, the Concorde flew from Paris to Rio and it was a five-hour trip." "We were flying around Brazil in private Lear jets, going through de Janeiro, Iguazu Falls San Salvador and decided "Well, Brazil has some... potential."" "Never have I felt more like James Bond, staying at the best hotels, beautiful women, beautiful situations, and getting paid for it." "We then fashioned a sequence for the Rio carnival." "What we did... the Mardi Gras, we shot a year before the real one." "That is a major, huge event, and although the script wasn't finished by a long shot we did actually mount, effectively, a documentary kind of unit." "I went with Claude Renoir and a camera team and we shot the real carnival, the Mardi Gras." "With the story coming together, other factors affect the filmmakers." "The British government at that time decided that it wanted to change its tax laws." "There was a feeling that it was necessary to move out of the country." "And I had worked in France so they asked me if, without losing production value, we could do the film in France." "And it was a tall order." "And I said, after surveying all the studios in Paris," ""Provided I get every studio in Paris."" "We took over all the stages, which didn't make us too popular." "Even for a film as large as "Moonraker" some ideas proved too ambitious at the time." "There were two small aircraft called microlights, and they were based at an airfield in Oklahoma." "So Cubby suggested I go out to Oklahoma, look at these aircraft, decide what we needed, how we were going to film..." "The planned sequence is ultimately dropped from the film, but not from the minds of the filmmakers." "These never made it into "Moonraker" but we did use them for "Octopussy", where Bond uses it to make his escape." "An element which cannot be ignored is the movie's complex special effects." "At first the producers turned to some of the most prominent companies in the US." "An agent came in with a demand that was more than we thought it should cost, and a percentage." "The guy said "Yeah, we want two per cent of the profit."" "I said "We can't do that." "That's ridiculous."" "At which point Cubby Broccoli said "Show them the door", and "How are we gonna do it, boys?"" "We didn't have the time to do any opticals." "It was very difficult in those days to figure out how these things could be done." "We had quite a few hundred shots to do in space." "We had front projection and rear projection." "We had roller-scoping." "I came up with this idea, which is not a new idea, to wind back in the camera." "Shoot elements and then wind back the film in the camera, shoot the element, wind back the film in the camera and shoot another element." "We started to do this and we all got very nervous." "You had to get them lined up so that none were superimposed over another, cos that would give away the fact that these were shot in separate elements." "So we did a few tests and we realised that it was quite a way of actually achieving a fantastic quality." "Derek Meddings and his crew take over Pinewood Studios to shoot the effects." ""Moonraker" is now set to shoot in four studios in three different countries, and the filmmakers are still scouting locations." "I was in Venice when I was informed of what the budget of the picture might be." "Bill Cartlidge came in and he was beside himself." "He couldn't believe it." "I rang Cubby and said "I've got interesting news."" "I said "It's really rather a lot of money, Cubby." "It's $32 million."" "We went through it and..." "it was... it was all there." "He said "Yeah, that's a lot of money." "It 'is' a lot of money."" ""But things cost a lot of money if you wanna do it right."" "He was very cool about that." "Enjoy your flight." "One element which must be done right is the film's pre-credit sequence, climaxing with the most ambitious fight scene ever filmed." "I had an idea that I'd written up and put in a drawer." "Michael Wilson came to us and said "Look, I've got this crazy idea about having Bond thrown out of the airplane without a parachute."" "There were several problems with this." "Could parachutes be made small enough to fit under clothing so it wasn't obvious?" "The other problem was shooting in Panavision, wide-scope." "All the lenses were very heavy and very big." "The fact is, you have a camera on top of somebody's head." "That was going to become a major stumbling block." "Everything's fine when you're in free fall." "What's really dangerous is when you pull the parachute cord." "The G-force is colossal." "It'll break the neck of the camera operator when he opens up his parachute." "I was in Paris, around the Boulevard St Michel." "There was an old camera store there, a lot of second-hand stuff, and in the corner I saw something that looked like a wide-angle lens, very small." "I said "What is that?" and they said "Oh, that's an old Panavision lens."" "Panavision lenses with glass were quite heavy, and this was a plastic lens." "I said "Well, Panavision rents everything..."" ""Well, that was an experimental model that was never used."" "We actually built a special camera." "They made a titanium body, very lightweight." "A great deal of research had gone into designing and building a helmet camera that could carry a hundred feet of film and possibly an anamorphic lens." "Cubby wasn't sure it could happen, but he told Michael:" ""OK, you can try it, but do it way before principal photography so if they don't do it right we can do something else."" "John Glen and I went out to California." "I again broke the sequence down into very easy, manageable pieces, and all I was looking for were three-second cuts." "Each time they went up they'd do a three-second cut." "We went down to Po Valley and the star was Roger Moore." "BJ's different to me." "I was more like Roger Moore." "So my very first stunt job, I got to double James Bond." "And he throws his arms back and he goes haring down and catches up with BJ Worth who was playing the pilot." "I was a world champion and captain of the US team." "My partner was a free-fall photographer." "Despite the lightweight camera, cinematographer Randy De Luca must still create a special technique to soften the shock on his neck when the parachute deploys." "He used to tie a rope around the parachute so it would open slowly." "When you're doing free-fall stuff the ground is coming up very quickly." "It would take him two or three times longer to deploy his chute." "The boys made 88 jumps and John Glen would edit the material as they did it and tell them exactly what to do on each jump." "I would get the rushes." "We'd run it the next day on the airfield." "We didn't know much about making a movie." "I knew very little." "John Glen taught us a ton of stuff." "He directed and put the whole sequence together, and that's how we got the parachute-jump sequence." "As deadlines loom, Cubby Broccoli and Lewis Gilbert cast the key roles in Paris." "I'd made about three pictures in France before this one, and I knew a lot of the technicians and I knew a lot of the actors." "And I knew that Lonsdale spoke very good English." "They wanted a French actor because it was a coproduction, and if you make a coproduction you had to have a French actor." "So I met Lewis Gilbert and immediately it was settled to be done - voilá!" "Michael Lonsdale is a very fine French-speaking," "English-speaking actor." "Totally bilingual." "It is wonderful to be the villain, and say "I'm going to destroy the world."" ""The end of civilisation as you know it."" "The role of Dr Holly Goodhead is cast through a chance encounter." "I happened to meet her on a plane." "It was very strange because I was assigned a seat next to him." "He was talking about this movie and I wasn't really interested in working." "I just wanted to go home and be with my friends and get away from it all." "But I thought that was very odd that I would be assigned the seat next to him." "And I thought "Wouldn't it be strange if this was the next film I did?"" "And... and it is!" "She was American - very different from the other Bond girls." "She had a very cool exterior." "Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr Bond." "It is Mr Bond, isn't it?" "James." "To my friends." "Holly Goodhead." "The name of Holly Goodhead was something I came up with because it was very, very Fleming." "I have to be honest." "I have to say that I actually like that I have one of the more obscene names." "I do." "Some parts are cast close to home." "The part of Chang is played by Toshiro Suga," "Michael Wilson's Parisian aikido teacher." "By popular demand, Richard Kiel returns to the role of Jaws." "We shot "Spy" with two endings." "He sort of comes out of the water and he's fine." "We could have killed him off but we shot that as an additional scene just in case." "When the director's grandson saw "The Spy Who Loved Me", he said "Grandpa, I like Jaws." "Why does he have to be a bad guy?"" "We got an enormous amount of fan mail." "An enormous number from children saying why can't he be a goody." "Before production begins, cinematographer Claude Renoir is forced to withdraw from the project." "The cameraman was going to be Claude Renoir, who had a good relationship with Lewis." "A wonderful cameraman, a wonderful artist." "The one thing a director of photography can't afford is to lose his eyesight, and that's what happened to Claude." "I had worked with a French cameraman before, in England, called Jean Tournier, on "Allez France"." "And Jean and I had a good relationship." "Very experienced cameraman." "Did a wonderful job on the film." "Production formally begins on August 11, 1978, at Epinay Studios." "The first day's shooting takes place on one of Ken Adam's ambitious creations, the Great Chamber." "The set is almost not ready in time for the cameras." "The Great Chamber I had problems with because" "I wanted it to look artificial, so I wanted all the rocks to look like real rocks but not be real rocks - be like glass." "We worked day and night on this thing." "The English members of the crew must adjust to the French style of working." "You start at 11 o'clock in the morning, and shoot through, without a break, till seven in the evening." "The scene, which looks simple, requires a unit to shoot in Guatemala for the exteriors of the pyramid, and another unit to travel to the United States." "Most of it involved a 24ft python." "We got those out in Tarzana." "There was a fella had a pair of them and, uh... put them in big boxes." "They weighed 400 pounds each and we brought them out to Florida." "The pythons, you put them in the water and they just get up on the bank and want to sun themselves on the float, cos it's too cold in the water." "So, to have them chase our actor, we'd put the stuntman in the water, take the python, drop him out of a boat, and he'd swim towards the man and just pass him and get up on the float." "To complete the scene back in France, the crew must move across town to the Studio De Boulogne where Ken Adam has built his control-room set." "Which I called the Mondrian set because somehow, when it was all up, and with the various projections and colours and black lines, it reminded me of Mondrian painting." "By the third week of filming, the crew was in their third studio:" "Billancourt." "Come on, Mr Bond." "A 70-year-old can take three Gs." "By this time it wasn't just the actors who were getting dizzy." "From Lewis Gilbert's point of view it was a nightmare to have to keep all that in his mind." "Initially the workload causes friction between Ken Adam and his French crew." "Max Douy was head of the French union." "He said:" ""Ken, if you think that we are going to work weekends like you normally do, and the amount of overtime, in France you've got another thought coming."" "The French do work in a different way." "And I said "Well, Max, I can't force you to work overtime, but I've never known a Bond not to involve overtime."" "So he said "Well, I feel very sorry about it, but I will not be able to talk my members into this."" "Ultimately it is the artistry of Ken Adam's designs which convince the French crew to work to complete the sets on time." "Not only did they work Saturday and Sundays but they brought in their families on Sundays as well, because they were excited with what they were doing." "To achieve the effect of G-forces, the filmmakers resort to a simple technique." "Roger Moore would hold the air line just off of camera so you couldn't see it, and he would blow all his facial tissues to give the feeling of centrifugal force." "The Drax residence." "The crew films parts of Drax's estate at this chateau." "But the chateau is meant to be located in southern California." "Again, a unit travels to the United States." "We used the Mojave Desert as a location, and I shot a number of plates there." "Then there's the journey that Bond takes from Los Angeles." "We had to shoot doubles taking off." "On September 25 the crew begins filming in the famed monastery of San Nicoló on the Venice Lido." "I used the interior of that monastery as M's office, and Moneypenny's office." "The monastery takes its name from someone even more famous than Bond:" "St Nicholas, also known as Santa Claus." "In Venice the unit must shoot a mammoth action scene in a city made up of 118 islands and 400 bridges." "Writer Christopher Wood wanted Bond to take Venice by motorcycle." "Bond getting on a motorbike, screaming around..." "We could've used the bridges..." "Motorbikes spinning off and landing on gondolas..." "The gondola, which was a splendid idea, sort of rang a change on the normal boat-chase thing." "What we did was get a gondola." "We had to get a clapped-out one and rebuild it, because nobody would sell us their prize gondola." "Gondolas are not designed to travel at high speed, a problem the crew discovers when they mount one with a 120-horsepower engine." "They get this thing out and wind it up." "It went up to about 15, possibly more." "We didn't have a speedo on the damn thing." "It suddenly ploughed itself straight under and down to the bottom." "That was the first experiment that didn't work." "Ultimately the crew customise four gondolas for the sequence, sending them through the canals of Venice at 60 miles per hour." "To cap the sequence, the gondola becomes a hovercraft." "It seems like such a simple idea - in the script." "There was the illusion that the thing rose up out of the water." "And so I'm sitting in a nice, grey silk suit on the thing, and push the button, and the thing starts to rise up out of the water, and then plop!" "It throws me into the lagoon." "There are 40,000 tourists watching." "They think that's rather fun." "I don't think it's fun and I have to go and change my suit." "We'd been given the impression that the tourists had gone away." "Well, they hadn't." "Five times it tipped over, and I only had five suits." "One more take and we couldn't have done it." "We shot at a time when there were thousands of tourists." "To try and clear St Mark's Square with the police was impossible." "The most complicated thing was the amount of people that wanted to watch us shooting." "The police said "Don't worry, we'll keep the crowd back."" "Well, they formed them in two lines, like the Coronation." "Roger drove across the square, and it was ludicrous." "It made life for the director and the people working on the set very difficult." "So I said to them in the end "Look, whatever you do, just disappear."" ""Just take all the police away and don't worry about it."" "You can't control ordinary tourists." "They don't know there's a film going on." "Well, of course, they all reacted:" ""What the hell is going on?"" "I was absolutely petrified." "I'm driving and I don't have that much control over it." "It was a bit tricky because it was a very unwieldy vehicle." "Venice proves to be the eleventh and last time Bernard Lee appears as M, a role he created in "Dr No"." "I think I can recall you mentioning it." "I remember a lovely story cos my wife was there, and Geoffrey Keen, and we were all going out to dinner." "And, um... we met downstairs in the hotel where we were all staying and suddenly Bernard saw they'd got a piano there." "So he started playing the piano and all the people sitting round were fascinated." "We said "Come on, Bernard, we must go to dinner now."" "And he said "It's all right, I'll come in a minute."" "We waited and we said "Look, we've got a table booked." "We're going."" ""All right, old boy, you go." "I'll follow you in a minute."" "He never came." "And when we came back he was still playing the piano to this adoring audience all the way round him." "Oh, he was a wonderful man, he really was." "I loved that man." "Mr Drax will see Mr Bond in the drawing room, Miss Dufour." "In November, the unit moves back to France where they take advantage of the local architecture at this chateau, the new Pompidou Centre, and even some local mining shafts." "Eventually, the crew even shoot at a hangar at Charles de Gaulle airport." "It is the amazing production design by Ken Adam which brings the film to life." "Astonishing." "Each time we went to a new set, I had a real shock." "The Ken Adam sets were extraordinary." "I can't believe how incredible they are." "I think, for the audience, the Ken Adam sets in "Moonraker"" "were why the film was such a big success." "Director Gilbert films many record-breaking moments, including the largest amount of breakaway glass ever used in one scene." "And the largest simulated weightless scene ever filmed, which is shot on the largest indoor set ever built in France." "The weightless scene was a big operation." "The space stuff was done for real in the sense that we had to construct those sets to make them work." "We did have to suspend people." "It was very, very difficult." "You wear a harness underneath and you've got cables." "You can do different movements." "You can do somersaults." "We had principals weightless, which is difficult." "I loved it." "It was like being a trapeze artist or a bird or something." "It took hours and hours of rigging, days and days of rigging, to get it right." "Some weightless scenes harbour other challenges." "My God!" "What's Bond doing?" "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir." "We got smashed into each other a few times and pulled apart a few times." "It was really funny." "Somebody watching it would probably be hysterical but... it felt really uncomfortable." "Take a giant step for mankind." "The camera was on the floor and shooting upways and I was suspended on a little wire, very thin." "And up I went 15 metres." "That was impressive!" "Looking down was a strange feeling." "Tremendous experience!" "After Christmas in Paris, the cast and crew leave for Rio de Janeiro." "Roger Moore, recovering from kidney stones, follows a few days later." "We then arrived in Rio." "The plane landed." "I could see the unit shooting the arrival of Concorde." "And then the plane went over to a special area." "I had to get off, go in, get made up, get dressed, get back on the plane, then walk down the steps for Bond arriving in Rio, not me from renal colics." "Within two days, the crew begins filming the most challenging stunt sequences." "We had a fight on top of the cable car." "It was a difficult sequence to do because you had these guys fighting on the top." "What we did is have a normal-size stunt fellow, and Dickie Graydon, who was very small." "I doubled for Richard Kiel." "It was considered that I would be able to double Roger Moore because I was smaller." "The first time you go up, there's an experience where it's very exciting." "That's when the excitement and the fear - it's very closely related." "I remember the production manager, Bill Cartlidge, watching these guys rehearse all day." "I said "It doesn't look too difficult." "I'll have a go myself"" "in an attempt to get the price down." "They said "Bill, if you'll go up on top of the cable car and just stand there, and ride it up and back, we'll do you a deal."" "When called upon to do so, I decided to pay the original price suggested." "We couldn't be attached by wires because we were weaving in and out of the structure at the top of the cable car." "We were always grabbing something, to be in contact with something secure." "We were about 2,000 feet above the ground." "It's like the size of a billiard table, if you like." "There was one item of the fight that I felt was unreal, to be unattached." "That was when I had to fall over the edge of the cable car, grab a rail with one hand and hang over the valley." "He had his harness on but he didn't have the cable ready because this shot was gonna take place later in the day." "Lewis Gilbert was over on the land and he shouted across:" ""Is the stuntman ready to fall over the side?"" "Richard didn't have his cable on, but he was so brave and he didn't want to embarrass everybody by saying "I'm not ready"." "So he actually did the shot without the safety cable on." "So when I was falling down over the edge, I hung on to the top of the roof with my hand to act as a brake." "I still nevertheless went over the edge." "I was so worried about this, and suddenly he fell and was hanging by his hands over this thousand-foot drop." "That was a nasty moment cos there was nothing you could do but hope it works." "I forgot to say "Cut", and the chap was hanging there, and suddenly my assistant nudged me and says "Cut, cut!"" "It was so dangerous and so realistic, I could just see this poor man falling." "That was probably the most dangerous feeling I've had in any stunt of my career." "The crew shoots Bond and Holly escaping from an ambulance, with dummies standing in for the stars, before tackling the re-creation of Carnival with over 700 extras." "Meanwhile, the second unit, directed by Ernie Day, attempts to film the scene which brought James Bond to Brazil." "We went to Brazil in the first place because of this unique location at Iguazu Falls." "Iguazu Falls is I think probably the widest in the world." "It runs across in a series of cataracts, probably a mile, mile and a half, and it stretches across three countries." "The idea that Jaws goes over the falls, Bond takes off on a hang-glider..." "Trying to shoot that sequence at Iguazu, on those falls, was going to be more than a little tricky." "Every aspect of the scene proves difficult." "The first task is to film a hang-glider above the falls." "I actually had to organise overflying permission from three countries that weren't talking to each other." "Glider pilot John Long has many concerns about the location." "Hang-gliding in the South Downs in England is a completely different deal to trying to do it in the Tropics, over the top of a waterfall with the updraughts, downdraughts, water spray and everything else." "We didn't have enough fuel for him to do anything more than land, hopefully somewhere in the vicinity." "After several sort of aborted attempts at flying round, he eventually gave it a shot at just flying over." "Lost lift, lost control, crashed into the trees and ended up with us all rushing down to retrieve him." "The shot of a real hang-glider going over the falls is scrapped." "The next challenge is to send speedboats over the edge." "Our task was to manoeuvre this boat into a position just above the edge of the fall, so that on cue we could release it, and we'd have cameras at the bottom of the falls to see the boat come over and crash down into the bottom." "After days of work to manually position the boat near the falls, the crew is finally ready to shoot the big event." "We got the boat out there." "Despite my pleas, they said "No, cut it free, release it", which we did." "It was by nature an experiment, because nobody knew what was gonna happen." "The boat came down, and immediately impaled itself on a rock, absolutely right on the edge of the fall." "It got stuck." "It actually got stuck right on the edge and didn't go over." "I think the front three feet of the boat were over the edge, and the back of it was firmly jammed on the rock." "It sat there teetering on the edge of the second-largest falls in the world." "To get the scale of it, it was a little pimple right on the edge of the rock there, and it failed to go over." "The water at that point was on average probably about four feet deep." "Solid water pouring over the edge." "That's 300 feet straight down." "In a very foolish, weak moment I said "Well, if we get a helicopter, the helicopter can lower me down on to the boat and I'll try and push it over."" "We got this helicopter, and John Richardson himself, off of a wire, suspended from the helicopter, was actually dangled over this speedboat." "It actually dropped me in the water three times and I disappeared underneath, then into the bushes on a little island twice." "I eventually managed to get in the water and I was up to the chest holding on to the boat, trying to shift it, which I couldn't do." "Some stunts are performed, on Bond films, which never get to be seen." "We tied a rope from my harness on to the cargo lifting-point and we flew back out." "And now, having got hold of the front of the boat, the helicopter's trying to lift and pull out over the edge." "I'm holding on desperately, my arms getting longer and longer." "The noise from the falls is tremendous." "You can't hear yourself speak." "Suddenly over the top of it I could hear this ping-ping-ping-ping-ping noise, and I'm sort of trying desperately to figure what on earth it is, until I suddenly realised it was the stitching on my harness breaking," "one ping at a time." "So, with that, I let go." "That was probably a bigger and better stunt than you're ever likely to see in the movie." "But that was just to get to the stunt." "As luck would have it, it poured with rain about a hundred miles upriver overnight." "When we came out in the morning the boat had gone." "I was extremely relieved." "The sequence is ultimately completed at Pinewood Studios using miniatures." "The boat chase itself must be filmed in Florida." "In the end, including background plates and special-effects shots, the falls appear on screen for less than one minute." "James Bond proves unable to conquer Mother Nature." "Moonraker launch programme now commencing." "The question remains:" "Will the filmmakers be able to have 007 conquer outer space?" "The responsibility rests with one man:" "Derek Meddings." "Derek Meddings was..." "He personifies the word "unique"" "because there was nobody like Derek Meddings." "I think he was probably the greatest model director in this industry." "Yet Meddings and his crew choose the most risky technique to achieve the effects in "Moonraker"." "One mistake and each multiple-exposure shot must be re-created from scratch." "The only problem was that the shuttles, when they were flying in space, if they went over any stars, the stars showed through the black area." "This meant tracking blackboards that covered up areas because we knew there would be a space shuttle there." "We had a grid in the camera, so we knew roughly where the shuttle was moving from and to, and we would have all the stars, and as the shuttle approached we would fade the stars out," "and as it went over them we would bring them back in again." "It was a nightmare." "How the heck we ever got this to work I'll never know but, in the end, we were doing it without even thinking about it." "We had seen Kubrick's space station in "2001", so I wanted to come up with something based on a mobile, like a sculpture." "And Derek eventually built the big model brilliantly." "It was probably about 20 feet across." "It was on the 007 stage at Pinewood." "One of the greatest shots for me in that picture is the way the space station is revealed." "You start at the top of it, as though the sun is hitting it, and then you gradually reveal this whole mobile rotating." "It's a wonderful shot." "And the revealing shot that we did..." "The whole thing was lit with one light source." "The 007 stage at Pinewood was used for just shooting models and the weightless people floating." "The single most challenging shot has the entire crew holding their breath." "The laser battle at the end of the film involved 48 passes of film in the camera." "48 passes on one piece of negative." "Which meant that the film went through the camera 96 times because it had to be wound back." "The more you handle the film, the more opportunities for something to go wrong." "The danger is that you pre-expose it, or you don't reload it in the pitch dark, or it gets scratched in the camera." "It was terribly nerve-racking because they had spent many hours filming." "This little piece of film suddenly becomes like gold dust, or even more precious than gold." "You would hope you got it right." "We started off with 20 takes." "By the time we'd finished we were down to six, because something had got screwed up on the way down." "I got a bit nervous and said "Don't tell me it's going through the camera every day."" ""Just tell me when it's over."" "Moonraker 2, lift off." "For Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson, Robin Browne and the effects team, it is not over by a long shot." "Using magnesium flares and projector bulbs to simulate the flaming exhaust," "Derek Meddings creates the most realistic rocket launches seen on film." "Meddings must create the contrails of a space shuttle in flight." "To achieve this, Derek used salt." "We had a very, very small... shuttle, and it was hollow, and we filled it up with salt." "It was pulled up on wire because all the salt inside it emptied out and gave us this lovely sort of trail which looked like the smoke from the rockets." "Meddings must also figure a way to realistically blow up a space station in the vacuum of space where flames will not burn." "He suddenly had this brilliant idea and he got a couple of shotguns." "We closed the stage down, sealed all the doors, and we shot it to pieces with 12-bore shotguns." "Lewis Gilbert's remarks when he phoned us were: "Wow."" "I think the combination of Paul Wilson and Derek will never be matched." "A great credit to Derek Meddings." "Very, very clever." "Wonderful models." "Brilliant." "Ground-breaking special effects earn "Moonraker"" "an Academy Award nomination." "For audiences the film is truly out of this world." "Filmed in four studios, seven countries, three continents, and costing more than the budgets of the first six 007 adventures combined," ""Moonraker" is larger than life in every respect." "If this film is as good as we think it is, they'll want another one." "I hope they do." "In the summer of 1979," ""Moonraker" smashes box-office records around the globe." "James Bond once again proves that no challenge, not even outer space, is too big for 007." "Take me round the world one more time." "Why not?" "Subtitles by Visiontext" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "How we doing, Richard?" "We should pass over England 15 minutes ahead of time." "With this load, that's good going." "Just trust the RAF, sir." " What the hell is that?" " It's the shuttle ignition!" "Disappeared?" "What happened to the Moonraker?" "Good God!" "Yes, of course, Minister." "Right away." "Moneypenny, Is 007 back from that African job?" "He's on his last leg." "Any higher, Mr Bond, my ears will pop." "I don't think I'll ever fly with anyone else." "You're so right, Mr Bond." " This is where we leave you, Mr Bond." " A little premature, isn't it?" "Enjoy your flight." " Good morning, Moneypenny." " James!" "Why are you so late?" "I fell out of an aeroplane without a parachute." " Who's in there?" " Q and the Minister of Defence." "You don't believe me?" " And you should go right in." " Yes, Moneypenny." "007!" "At last." "Good morning, sir." "You know Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence." " Commander." " Minister, Q." "007." "Moonraker?" " What do you know about Moonraker?" " What I read in the newspapers." "The Moonraker shuttle was being flown over here on loan, on the back of a 747." "Which crashed in the Yukon." "Aircraft and shuttle destroyed." "In the official version." "The truth is more disturbing, 007." "Look at this." "That's the scene of the crash." "Wreckage strewn everywhere." "That's the fuselage." "We've been through it thoroughly, but there's no sign of Moonraker." "So the shuttle was hijacked in mid-air?" "That's for you to find out." "It was built in California by Drax Industries." "Yes." "We were responsible for the safety of that shuttle." "The United States government is justifiably concerned." " So California must be the place to start." " I agree." "Don't make any mistakes, 007." "This situation is critical." " We've got to find that shuttle." " Yes, sir." " If that's all, gentlemen?" " Just a minute." "I have something for you." "Roll up your right sleeve." "This is being issued as standard equipment." "Strap it on your wrist." "It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist." "Like this?" "Oh, thank you, 007!" " Be careful." " Yes, Q." "Five blue-tipped armour-piercing darts, five red-tipped cyanide-coated, causing death in 30 seconds." "You must get them in the stores for Christmas!" "Good morning, gentlemen." " Welcome to California, Mr Bond." " I like it already." "My name is Corinne Dufour." "Are you going to show me around?" "No, I'm just a humble pilot for the Drax Corporation." "This is the Drax estate." "Everything you see belongs to Mr Drax." " He owns a lot." " What he doesn't own, he doesn't want." "We're approaching the main complex." " That's where the Moonraker is made?" " That's right." "Workshops, hangars, design and experimental blocks," " everything." " Very impressive." "I'd heard Hugo Drax is obsessed with the conquest of space." "Now I can believe it." "Good Lord!" "The Drax residence." "Every stone brought from France." " Cute, isn't it?" " Magnificent." " Why didn't he buy the Eiffel Tower too?" " He did." "He was refused an export permit." "Look there!" "Those are the astronaut trainees." "Mr Drax is financing the entire programme out of his own pocket." "Seems to have an eye for a good investment!" "Mr Drax will see Mr Bond in the drawing room, Miss Dufour." "This way, please, sir." "Mr Bond, sir." " Mr Bond." " Mr Drax." "Let me present Countess Lubinski, Lady Victoria Devon" " Mr Bond." "How do you do?" "Well, my dear fellow, your reputation precedes you." "I'm honoured you were sent on so delicate a mission." "Delicate?" "To apologise in person for the loss of my space shuttle." "How would Oscar Wilde have put it?" "To lose one aircraft may be regarded as a misfortune." "To lose two seems like carelessness." "An apology will be made to the American government when we've discovered why the Moonraker wasn't in that wreckage." "Your loyalty commands respect, Mr Bond." "You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one contribution to Western civilisation." "Afternoon tea." "May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?" "Thank you, no." "Nothing at all." "Is the shuttle made entirely here in California?" "No, I own a number of subsidiaries worldwide, producing components." "The conquest of space is an investment in the future of the human race, Mr Bond." "It is therefore logical to seek out the best from each nation." "Are you referring to people or skills?" "Both, Mr Bond." "Am I too soon?" "Not at all." "I'm sure Mr Bond is eager to start his tour." "Miss Dufour will escort you to Dr Goodhead." "Ask anything you like." " Thank you for being so cooperative." " A pleasure." "Look after Mr Bond." "See that some harm comes to him." "You'll find Dr Goodhead first on the right." " Thank you for the ride." " Call on me if you need anything." " Good afternoon." " Can I help you?" "My name is Bond." "James Bond." "I'm looking for Dr Goodhead." "You just found her." "A woman!" "Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr Bond." "James." "To my friends." "Holly Goodhead." "Are you training to be an astronaut?" "I'm fully trained - on loan from NASA." "The space administration." "Well, Mr Bond, I guess we'd better get started." "You don't want to lose time as well as a space shuttle, do you?" "This is it - the Moonraker." "Capable of being launched into space" "And re-entering the atmosphere to land like any conventional aircraft." "This is the centrifuge trainer." "It simulates the gravity force you feel when shot into space." "The speed is controlled from up there." "Why not try it?" "Why not?" "Strap yourself in firmly." "Yes, Doctor!" "Now your arms." "That's to prevent you from knocking yourself out." "How fast does it go?" "Up to 20 Gs, but that would be fatal." "Three Gs is takeoff pressure." "Most people pass out at seven." "You'd make a great saleswoman." "You don't have to worry." "This is a "chicken switch"." "The moment the pressure gets too much, release the button and the power's cut off." "Just like that?" "Come on!" "A 70-year-old can take three Gs." "Trouble is, there's never a 70-year-old around when you need one." " Do you want me?" " Mr Drax says to telephone him." "I'll call him from my office." "You go ahead." "I'll be right back." "The instructor will supervise the session." "Enjoy yourself." "Yes, we're taking good care of him." "I don't know what could have happened." "Something must have gone wrong with the controls." "Let me help you." "My mother gave me a list of things not to do on a first date." "Maybe you won't need it." "That's not what I came for." "No?" "What do you want, then?" "Would your feelings be shattered if I were to say "information"?" "Why should I tell you anything?" "Why indeed?" "You presume a great deal, Mr Bond." "What goes on here besides Moonraker and the astronaut programme?" "There are the laboratories, but not much is happening now." "No?" "They were working on something very secret, but everything's been moved." "Where to?" "I don't know." "What about that list of your mother's?" "I never learnt to read." "What are you doing?" "You whetted my appetite for information." "Is there a safe in here?" "Thank you." "James, no!" "That's amazing!" "There you are." "You have a heart of gold." "18-carat." "You must go." "You go first." "I'll turn off the lights." "Thank you." " Take care of yourself." " And you." "Ah, my dear Bond." "This is Mademoiselle Deladier and La Signorina del Mateo." " Ladies." " I'll see you at lunch." "A pity you leave us." "Such good sport." "Unless you're a pheasant." "Oh, really, Mr Bond!" "Take my gun - a stray bird may fly over." "I only stopped to thank you for your hospitality." "Fraser will get you to the airport." "Come now." " I doubt if I'm in your class." " You're too modest." "Over there." "You missed." "Did I?" "As you said, such good sport." "You called for me, Mr Drax?" "You were with Bond last night in my study." "You showed him the safe." " I didn't." " I'm terminating your employment." "You will leave immediately." "Franco, I'll call you where to meet me." " Could I interest you in something?" " I'm tempted to say yes immediately, but I'd better have a look around." "Please, go anywhere you wish." "...were taken over by Drax Industries." "Here we have some of the rarest examples of the glassblower's art." "Everything was done absolutely by hand." "Here is a vase done by Lorenzo Graziati between 1850 and 1860." "And over here..." "This exquisite bowl was fashioned about 1520, over 450 years ago." "If it ever came on the market it would certainly fetch in excess of $1 m." "But if any of you were thinking of taking it..." "Here we have a very early 17th century dish with an aquamarine medallion." "Over here, we have something very, very interesting." "This glass-handled sword, the only one of its kind in the world, was owned by General Menotti in the late 18th century..." "14th century." "Dr Goodhead!" "I hope your presence is a coincidence." "I dislike being spied on." "Don't we all?" "You're staying at the Danieli?" " Yes." "How did you know?" " I like to keep abreast of things." "May I ask what you're doing in Venice?" "Addressing the European Space Commission." "Heady stuff!" "There again, I keep forgetting you are more than just a beautiful woman." "If you're trying to be ingratiating, don't bother." "I have more important things on my mind." "That's what I'd like to talk about." "Dinner this evening?" "This evening I'm giving my address." "Then can you think of a reason for not having a drink afterwards?" "Not immediately." "But I'm sure I shall." "Franco!" "Play it again, Sam." " What the hell are you doing here?" " Convalescing." "Your friend Chang just tried to kill me." " You think "I" had something to do with it?" " It had flashed across my mind." " What's Drax up to in that laboratory?" " Why don't you ask him yourself?" " You're leaving me your phone number?" " I don't see the point." "Ah, now I do." "Not what I want to get stuck with tonight." "James, why don't you pour yourself a drink?" "Thank you." "Daily diary." "Fairly deadly diary." "Bollinger!" "If it's '69, you were expecting me." "A trifle overpowering, your scent." "Standard CIA equipment - and they placed you with Drax." "Correct?" " Very astute of you." " Not really." "I have friends in low places." "Could this possibly be the moment for us to pool our resources?" "It could have its compensations." "Where are you planning on going from here?" "I'm not planning on going anywhere." "I suppose you're right, Holly." "We would be better off working together." " Détente?" " Agreed." " Understanding?" " Possibly." " Cooperation?" " Maybe." " Trust?" " Out of the question." "Send the night porter up for my bags immediately, please." "I hope you know what you're doing, Bond." "I've played bridge with Drax." "007 doesn't usually push the panic button unless it's something serious." "You've covered everything with our Italian friends?" "Yes, sir." " Is this it?" " Yes, sir." " Gas masks?" " We can't afford to take any chances." "Frederick Gray, what a surprise!" "And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks!" "You must excuse me." "Not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humour difficult to follow." "On behalf of the British government, I apologise." "I think you owe us an explanation, 007." "I've never been so humiliated in my life." "Your man should be taken off the assignment." "I'll see you at the consulate." "I'll have to do what he says." "Before you do that sir, have Q do an analysis of this." "I took it from the laboratory." "Tell him to exercise caution." "It is lethal." "So there "was" a laboratory." "You'd better take two weeks' leave of absence." " Any thoughts on where you might go?" " I've always had a hankering to go to Rio." "I think I can recall your mentioning it. 007..." "No slip-ups - or we're both in trouble." "A minor crisis has been averted." "No, nothing serious, but all merchandise is to be rerouted as from today." "Now, regarding a replacement for Chang." "You have someone in mind?" "Oh yes, well." "If you can get him, of course..." "Flight BA128 to Rio de Janeiro now boarding at Gate 7." "Welcome to Rio, Mr Bond." "The President's Suite." "Really?" "Don't bother showing me the rest." "If I get lost I'll take a cab." " Do you come with the suite?" " It depends who's renting it." "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred." " Why were you following me?" " I was trying to meet you." "I'm Manuela." "I work for Station VH." "We have been asked to assist you." "M thinks of everything." "Tell me, do the initials C and W mean anything to you?" "C and W... yes." "Carlos and Wilmsberg." "They are very big importers in Rio." "A subsidiary of the Drax Group, I believe." "They have a warehouse on Carioca Avenue." "I'd like to pay it a discreet visit tonight." "Tonight?" "I think you may find that a little difficult." "Difficult or not, it's something we have to do." "Meanwhile, how do you kill five hours in Rio if you don't samba?" "There's the warehouse." "And not a soul about." " I think there's a way round the back." " Good thinking." "This is it." "Don't talk to any strange men." "I'll be back." "Are you all right?" "Yes." "But I'd rather dance with you." "I did tell you not to talk to any strange men." "Did you find anything in there?" "Only this." ""Drax Air Freight."" " Know which airport they operate from?" " São Pedro." "Shall I take you there?" "No, I think you need some rest." "Come on." "Haven't we met before somewhere?" "The face is familiar." "As is the manner." " It's become chilly since Venice." " That was before you walked out on me." "Nearly tripping over your suitcase on the way out." "So?" "So why waste time working against each other?" "I've checked Drax's warehouse." "It's empty." "No surprise." "Since I arrived those planes have been taking off every two hours." " Yes, he's moving out." " Where to?" "That's what we're going to find out - now that we're working together." "I still don't know if I trust you." "I don't know if I trust you either." "That's what makes it more exciting." "What's wrong?" "I don't know - but I'm sure we're better off out than in." "Bring that chain." " Hang on, James." " The thought had occurred to me." " I might have guessed." " Do you know him?" "Not socially." "His name's Jaws." "He kills people." "Here, give me the chain!" "Come on, hang on to me." "Jump!" "Have you broken something?" "Only my tailor's heart." " What was that for?" " For saving my life." "Remind me to do it more often." "Thank you, but we're in great shape." "Sorry about that." "James!" "You look as though you've fallen off a mountain." "Funny you should say that." "As a matter of fact, I was in a cable car and..." " Never mind." " The other courtyard." "Ah, there you are, 007." "Balls, Q?" "Bolas, 007." " Good." "Have that ready for army day." " Yes, sir." " Where's M?" " In the office." "This way." " Good morning, 007." " Morning, sir." " You're just in time." "Sit down." " Thank you, sir." " Q's come up with something." " Splendid." "Any news of Dr Goodhead?" "'Fraid not." "Right, Q." "It's a breakdown on that phial of liquid you picked up in Venice." " You seem to be right, 007." " Thank you!" "It's a highly toxic nerve gas that has no effect on animals." "May I see the formula?" "It's a chemical formula of a plant." "Orchidae nigra." "A very rare orchid indeed." "Thought to be extinct - until a missionary brought one back from the Amazoco." "Actually he brought it back from the River Tapirapé." "Well done, James." "You'd better get up there and fast." "And I've got something to get him there." "If 007 can be trusted to look after it." "Mr Bond, you defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you." "You're no sportsman." "Why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?" "I discovered he had a crush on me." "Jaws." "Moonraker 1 on preset launch programme minus two minutes." " Retract crew access arm." " CAA retracted" " Transfer orbital power." " Internal power transferred." " Activate hydraulics." " Hydraulics activated." " Activate auxiliary power unit." " APU activated." " LH2 replenish." " Status confirmed." " Pressurise helium tanks." " Helium flight pressure confirmed." "What exactly are you up to here, Drax?" " And why the orchids?" " The curse of a civilisation." "Neither war nor pestilence wiped out the race who built the city lying around us." "It was their reverence for this lovely flower." "Because long-term exposure to its pollen caused sterility?" "Correct, Mr Bond." "As you have discovered, I have improved upon sterility." "Those same seeds now yield death." "Not, of course, to animals or plant life." "One must preserve the balance of nature." "Moonraker launch programme now commencing." "Minus 20 seconds." " SRB, you will profile." " Activated." " Cooling pumps?" " On." "Moonraker 1, lift off." "We have lift off." "Moonraker 2, T minus 10  9, 8, 7, 6  5, 4, 3  2, 1." " Main engine start." " Moonraker 2, lift off." " Moonraker 3." " Moonraker 3, lift off." " Moonraker 2, confirm PB." " PB confirmed." " Moonraker 4, launch programme." " Moonraker 4, lift off." "Moonraker 1, SRB jettisoned?" "We have separation." "Confirmed." "Moonraker 3, confirm programme." "Moonraker 5 on preset launch programme minus 10." "Drax." "One more thing." "You delivered a shuttle to the US government, then you hijacked it." "Why?" "Because I needed it." "One of my own Moonrakers developed a fault during assembly." "Now, you have distracted me enough." "Jaws, Mr Bond must be cold after his swim." "Place him where he can be assured of warmth." "Moonraker 2, go for orbit." "SRB jettison." "Moonraker 5 ready for launch." "James!" "Thank God you're safe." "Moonraker 5, transfer orbital power." "Hydraulics activated." " Activate auxiliary power unit." " APU activated." "LH2, replenish." "Even in death my munificence is boundless." "When this rocket lifts off I will be leaving you in your own private crematorium." "Mr Bond, Dr Goodhead, I bid you farewell." "Pad EPS, power on." "Come on." "The air vent!" "Moonraker 5, reset." " External LH2 pressure?" " Confirmed." " Retract crew access arm." " CAA retracted." "Get back, quick!" "T minus 10 seconds." "... six, five..." "Bang on time." "Come on, quick!" "Straight on!" "Moonraker 6 astro-technicians, prepare to embark." "I repeat, Moonraker 6 astro-technicians, prepare to embark." " Moonraker 5 crew." " All systems go." "Moonraker 6, start launch sequence." "We have separation." "Moonraker 5 ground crew stand down." "We're going the wrong way." "Moonraker 6, preset launch programme completed." "Pilots proceed from base to launch area." "Shuttle go." "Boosters go." "Launch pad go." " External LO2 pressure?" " Confirmed, 21 psia." " External LH2 pressure?" " Confirmed, 42.5 psia." "CAA retracted." "Moonraker 6 cleared for launch." "T minus 10 seconds." "9, 8  7, 6, 5  4, 3, 2  1, go." "It's all right." "We're on a prearranged flight programme." "That's Drax in Moonraker 5." " What about the others?" " I don't know." "Let's see." "We're on parallel courses." "We must be headed for a rendezvous in orbit." "Let's see what cargo we have." "The animals went in two by two." "What do you mean by that?" "Noah's Ark." "This operation." "We're converging." " Control rockets?" " Yes, we're slowing down." "What's that?" "There's no image on the radar scanner." "An entire city in space and still nothing on the radar scanner." " So nobody on Earth knows it's there." " Right." "Drax must have a radar-jamming system." "All Moonrakers prepare to dock and continue radio silence." "Moonraker 6, you are now in manual." "Initiate docking sequence." "All shuttles now docked." "Execute station activation procedure." "Gravity, normal conditions." "Life-support system, nominal." "Moonraker 6 technicians, commence operational sequence." " Check airlock seals." " ALS secure." "All personnel to command satellite." "All personnel to command satellite." "All crews to M5 segment." "Moonraker 6 technicians to M2 segment." "Moonraker 1 and 3 to M1 segment." "Moonraker 4 and 5 to M4 segment." "Moonraker 2 to M5 segment." "Units 4 and 7, man console as planned." "Assume preassigned stations." " Pressure on line?" " Confirmed." " Life support?" " Normal." "Those are the globes I saw in Venice with the nerve gas phials inside." "First there was a dream." "Now there is reality." "Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super-race, a race of perfect physical specimens." "You have been selected as its progenitors - like gods." "Your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image." "You have all served in humble capacities in my terrestrial empire." "Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created." "From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens." "All units:" "Start Operation Orchid." "If we were visible from Earth, they'd investigate." "Where do you suppose that radar-jamming system is?" "We didn't pass anything on the way here, so let's try this way." "Station 2, check coordinates, mode 4." "Orbital communicator, level 10." "Zero gravity." "This is it - the radar-jamming system." "Coordinate conversion programme." "Check." " Side lobe gain." " Check." " Spectral response." " Check." " Spin stabiliser correction factor." " OK." "Gigahertz reflector efficiency." "Solar photon screen." "Where did you learn to fight like that?" "NASA?" "No, Vassar." " Switched off?" " Permanently." "Now Earth can spot us." "This doesn't look good at all." "It's over 200 metres in diameter." "Yes, yes." "Please listen, General Gogol." "We didn't put it there." "Neither did we, Colonel Scott." "So what are you suggesting?" "We've acted already." "We're sending up a vehicle to intercept." "Very well, but if we don't hear from you in the next 12 hours we'll take action and hold you responsible for the consequences." "We'll be in touch, General." " Sorry to have woken you." " I was already awake." "How can I sleep?" "Nothing but problems." "Problems, problems." "Astronauts to launch pad." "Launch pre-programme complete, sir." "Launch globe number one." "TDRSS reports a launch, sir." "Continental USA." "Vandenberg." "There are no launches scheduled." "Check radar-jamming system." "Well?" "Jamming power supply and backup have failed, sir." " Investigate immediately." " Investigate number 28 immediately." "James Bond." "You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season." "I didn't think there were any in space." "As far as you're concerned, only winter." "And the treacherous Dr Goodhead." "Despite your efforts, my finely wrought dream approaches fulfilment." "Your dream, whatever sort of nightmare it is, hasn't a chance." "You think not?" "We shall see." "We're coming up to second launch position." "Launch globe number two." "No doubt you have realised the splendour of my conception." "First, a necklace of death about the Earth." "50 globes, each releasing its nerve gas over a designated area, each capable of killing 100 million people." "And the human race as you know it will cease to exist." "Then a rebirth, a new world." "US spacecraft on course to intercept us." "Activate laser." "Prepare to destroy spacecraft." "You see, my dear Bond, we're well able to protect ourselves against all enemies." "Allow me to introduce you to the airlock chamber." "Observe, Mr Bond, your route from this world to the next." "Dr Goodhead, your desire to be America's first woman in space will soon be fulfilled." "Leaving you on your flying stud farm, conceiving your new master race?" "If you like, yes." "And anyone not measuring up to your physical standards will be exterminated?" "Certainly." "Interesting." "Most interesting." "Jaws, expel them." "Jaws!" "You obey me!" "Expel them!" "Hold them!" "US spacecraft, three minutes to intercept." "Stand by to laser it." "Initiate firing sequence." "US spacecraft in laser range." "Range 15." "Range 10." "Prepare to fire." "5, 4, 3, 2..." "It's stopped rotating." "Open the cargo doors." "Number one platoon, EVA." "Let's try docking." "Take the first landing!" " Intruders have docked at satellite 7." " Double the guard at every entrance." "Report intruders' progress throughout the station." " Number 3 globe ready for launching." " Proceed!" "Intruders attacking command module." "All units shoot to kill." " Don't shoot!" " Hold your fire." "Corridor 5 penetrated." "Intruders advancing on command satellite." "Maintenance crew needed, section 3." "At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery." "Desolated, Mr Bond." "Heartbroken, Mr Drax." "Allow me." "Take a giant step for mankind." " Where's Drax?" " He had to fly." " How's Scott doing?" " He put the globe launchers out of action." "When the station breaks up, they'll disintegrate." "They're harmless." " But the three launched will kill millions." " Those must be destroyed." "Come on!" "Colonel, get your men off!" "Your mission is completed." "Sergeant, round up your men!" "Back to the shuttle, everybody!" "Moonraker 5 - that's the answer." "Its laser can track those globes and destroy them." "It's hopeless." "The corridor's blocked." "They can't get to us." "All right, let's go." "Docking release is jammed." "Release the door lock." "I'll see if I can operate it manually." "It's jammed too." "Well, here's to us." "Jaws, we can't disengage - the release system is jammed." "Can you help us?" "We're free." "Don't worry, they'll make it." "It's only 100 miles to Earth." "Let's get a read-out on those globes." "I have the three globes on the screen." "We should have a visual in a minute." "There it is." "The laser's on automatic." "Code 945 set." "One down, two to go." "Number two straight ahead." " What is it?" " We're skipping on Earth's atmosphere." "In range." "We should see the last one soon." "There it is." " It's getting hot." " I'm coming in steep to get the last globe." "I can't hold this course much longer." "We'll break up at 200,000 feet." "A few seconds more." "Automatic firing system negative." "Must be the heat." "Switching to manual." "Controls aren't responding." " The wings are beginning to glow." " Just hold her steady." "Steady." "It's entering Earth's atmosphere!" "James, this is our last chance." "Steady." "Colonel Scott reports picking up two survivors - a tall man and a short blonde woman." "Right." "OK." "Dr Goodhead reported their position." "They're coming into range of our Pacific tracking ship." "We'll have audiovisual within minutes from on-board monitors." "Houston calling Dr Goodhead." "Houston calling." "Confirm your position." "As this is the first joint venture between our two countries," "I'm patching it to the White House and Buckingham Palace." "I'm sure Her Majesty will be fascinated!" " We have audiovisual." " Ah, at last!" "007!" "My God!" "What's Bond doing?" "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir." " James?" " I think it may be time to go home." "Take me round the world one more time." "Why not?" "Subtitles by Visiontext" ""Moonraker" will transport you to another world." "A trifle overpowering, your scent." "Holly was a warm girl, with the right connections." "Could this be the moment for us to pool our resources?" "We would be better off working together." "More excitement." "More thrills." "More spills." "And guess who's dropped in for a bite?" "Jaws is back." "From earth to the most spectacular adventure in space, "Moonraker"" "it's out of this world." "What exactly are you up to, Drax?" "Moonraker 1, lift off." " Moonraker 2, lift off." " Moonraker 3, lift off." "Moonraker 4, lift off." "We have lift off." "What's that?" "An entire city in space." "James Bond and the treacherous Dr Goodhead." "Despite your efforts, my finely wrought dream approaches fulfilment." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "A word of advice:" "If you ever see James Bond come into a restaurant or bar, leave at once." "Because wherever 007 goes... mayhem follows." "Now, meet the real men behind the mayhem." "The heroes are the special effects." "The special effects are probably some of the best still in the business." "The special effects are so fabulous." "The first special effects hero of the James Bond films is John Stears." "When the Bonds came along" "I was asked by Frank George to help with the miniatures on the bauxite wharf for "Dr No"." "With a budget of only £1,000, Stears destroys Dr No's fortress." "And then the second Bond film..." "John took over as the supervisor." "That was my first job on the Bond." "Stears and his team manufacture Q's lethal briefcase..." "Inside, a tear gas cartridge." "...which is a smoking success." "The film features more than lethal gadgets." "The helicopter you saw was a miniature." "That's the first time a model was used like that." "For "Goldfinger" some eye-popping special effects are required." "On "Goldfinger" we did the optical shot of the reflection in the girl's eye of the guy coming up behind Bond." "Among the film's other dazzling effects is the sexiest, most lethal car ever built." " Whatever you do, don't touch it." " Why not?" "Because you'll release this." "First I had to make the hole for the ejector seat." "Ejector seat?" "You're joking." "I never joke about my work, 007." "I said, "Nobody else can do this, guys."" "To install Q's gadgets, Stears must first cut apart the irreplaceable, hand-built Aston Martin DB5." "I looked at it, went away for a cup of coffee, got the drill, drilled the hole and that was it." "Stears outfits the vehicle with a compressed-air canister to fire a dummy out of the car." "Acetylene oxygen torches simulate front-firing machine guns." "The oil slick is created for real, but the tank for the effect is so large it must be removed before the bulletproof shield can go in." "With a genuine smoke screen, revolving numberplates, built-in homing device with tracking screen and tyre-shredding hubcaps, the Aston Martin goes down in history." "To create the effect of Oddjob's deadly hat, Stears uses a number of tricks." "That was on a wire which you couldn't see." "The actual hat rotated on that wire as it went, so it spun, then the wire was placed close to the statue's neck." "As it touched the statue we had an electrical device so it... the neck was pulled away." "We did that in reverse, so it stuck in the bars and then we pulled it off." "For "Thunderball" John Stears creates effects for land, sea, air and even underwater." "His ground-breaking work includes one of the largest explosions ever filmed, and earns him an Academy Award for Best Special Effects." "Didn't even know I was in for an Oscar." "In fact, a friend called me and said, "You've just won an Oscar."" "I said, "What are you talking about?" He said, "For 'Thunderball'."" "The next James Bond adventure requires special effects that are literally out of this world." "All that stuff was shot, in the main, separately." "The world was shot separately, the spacecraft was shot separately, the men were shot separately - against black velvet, on the stage by Freddie Young." "Then we brought it back here for the optical compositions." "And the rocket, where it turns over to make its ascent into the volcano's mouth, was all model stuff that we shot - that John Stears had rockets built for." "But the real star of the show is the autogyro Little Nellie." "I put the air-to-air missiles on it." "I think it had about 24 rockets." "It had the machine guns and it had the two big sidewinders on it." "All worked." "All had to fire." "Bond films customarily end with the villain's lair being blown to bits." "But when the actual location is a real mountain-top restaurant, model-making skills come to the rescue." "We did have to demolish the lair where the villain was, which is the "Schilthornbahn" above Mürren." "That's 12,000 feet up in the Alps." "Back in Pinewood I built a miniature of the whole thing and destroyed it." "Stears is absent from the next James Bond film, "Diamonds Are Forever"." "Shot largely in America, it uses the talents of Leslie Hillman and Whitney McMahon with visual effects by Wally Veevers and the legendary Albert Whitlock." "When Stears is unavailable for "Live and Let Die"," "Derek Meddings joins the Bond family." "What gave me a footing in the Bond films was a sequence at the end when the poppy fields explode." "And Guy Hamilton called me over and he said," ""Could you do this as a miniature back at the studios?"" "And I said I could." "He said, "And it'll look good?" I said, "It'll look great."" "We came back to England, I did the miniatures and that started it." "The film's climax calls for Meddings to create the most unusual villain's demise of the series." "We had a figure of Yaphet Kotto and we had to inflate him." "It was on a wire so it would go up to the rafters, and there was a charge attached to the back of his body, away from camera." " Where's Kananga?" " He always did have an inflated ego." "On "The Man with the Golden Gun" John Stears returns, working with Meddings and Cliff Culley to make cars fly and clouds move on their command." "Clouds don't cooperate too well for filmmaking." "So that was all effects stuff." "As usual, the film ends with a bang." "The island blowing up we did on the backlot at Pinewood." "And I always thought that was a really good shot." "Meddings has his hands full creating models for "The Spy Who Loved Me"." "The problem with the supertanker was it had to swallow the submarines so there couldn't be anything underneath, so I had it built like a catamaran." "So when the doors open we can actually drive it over the submarine." "Derek Meddings builds a mammoth floating palace which doubles as the villain's lair, Atlantis." "The models created by Meddings for "The Spy Who Loved Me" fool even experts, but not all the effects can be done in miniature." "I was supposed to be standing behind the chair, and I said, "I think there'll be more tension if I'm 'sitting' in the chair."" "I just didn't have time to get out of it - and it blew." "I had three holes where most people have one." ""Moonraker" takes 007 into outer space." "And with NASA's real space shuttle yet to be launched, the filmmakers cannot rely on stock footage." "The shuttle lift off scenes were largely achieved by photographic transparencies in the foreground and a model with a great big firework in its backside!" "I had these magnesium flares made up." "Once they're alight there's no way to put 'em out." "Separating the booster rockets was achieved by having the parts on a wire." "It was on a trolley, and when it got to a certain distance from the camera we had a little electrical contact that actually swung the pods away from the actual shuttle itself." "Effects cameraman Robin Browne faces a challenge with the screens inside Drax's control complex." "We had images which we back-projected into the screens." "One of the problems was, the set itself required a certain element of lighting, a certain intensity." "Some screens were flat to camera but some were angled." "I do remember we had to take some of the footage and treat it and distort it, so when it was projected up on the screen the perspective came back at the right angle." "The film's earthbound pyrotechnics are handled by John Evans and John Richardson." "I think we got about as close as you can get and still retain the safety angle." "The outstanding and innovative special effects work of "Moonraker"" "earns the film an Academy Award nomination." "The next 007 adventure, For Your Eyes Only, was less of a fantasy, but still featured fantastic effects." "The film opens with some impossible helicopter stunts." "Impossible for anyone but the Bond crew!" "Using foreground miniatures," "Derek Meddings creates the illusion of a helicopter flying through a building." "To sell the effect, Meddings uses an air hose to blow up dust on the miniature." "Special effects technician Chris Courbould works to mount a real helicopter inside the location." "We had to build a major rig with a full-size helicopter on it with rotors going round, which we mounted on a track on the inside of the building." "For Your Eyes Only also requires underwater model work." "That was done on the tank at Pinewood." "It was a very large model." "About fifth scale." "There was a bathyscaph sequence." "We had that on wires with tiny figures of Bond and the girl." "When they came out of the trawler the figures of Bond and the girl were about that tall." "They were on wires operated from above, out of the water, and we blew the diver with air and flashbulbs." "Bond is back in "Octopussy", and so is effects man John Richardson, adding to the pre-credits fun." "It had every type of effect you can imagine built into this little moment." "The sequence features a full-size Acrostar jet, a miniature jet, foreground miniatures, a full-size model mounted on a Jaguar, and one of the greatest miniature explosions ever filmed." "It all worked out well in the end." "Richardson's work in "A View to a Kill" takes him to new heights." "The airship for "A View to a Kill" gave us quite a number of problems." "We built a 40-foot-long one which we could fill with helium." "The final scene requires Richardson to recreate one of the world's great landmarks in miniature on the Pinewood Studios backlot." "The film also finds Richardson working with water." "Once we got into the flooding, we had a full-size set that we flooded with tip tanks and hoses, and we had submersible pumps feeding vast water sprays that would create a look of a wall of water coming straight at you " "but in fact it was all spray." "And then we bolstered this up with a..." "I think it was a third-scale miniature of the same set that we could flood much quicker." ""The Living Daylights" pre-credits employs remote-control effects work." "We fired the Land Rover off with an air cannon and had a radio-controlled rig inside it to release a parachute to pull a dummy out of the top of the Land Rover." "Then we blew it up with a radio signal." "A good effects man has to know more than how to blow up a Range Rover." "He also has to know how to boil water." "It's a pot of cold water with a ring in the bottom of the pot which made smoke, so when you throw the pot, although it looks steaming and hot, it's actually quite cold." "The film also features the return of a gadget-laden Aston Martin." "John Richardson and crew create enough special-effects wizardry to make Q proud." "Although "The Living Daylights" has amazing pyrotechnics, nothing matches the explosions in "Licence to Kill"." "To this day, they're some of the biggest explosions I've ever done." "To create a 4,000-gallon petrol tanker blowing up, you had to create something pretty immense." "We were using so much explosive we were worried about creating rock falls." "You can actually choreograph the explosion and the directions that the flame goes in." "Making an interesting explosion is one where you have things continually going over a period of time rather than just one bang." ""GoldenEye" marks the triumphant debut of Pierce Brosnan as 007..." "Do you destroy every vehicle you get into?" "Standard operating procedure." "...and marks the last Bond assignment for miniature-effects wizard Derek Meddings." "Each Bond film I've been involved in, they've had more and more miniatures." "This one has had, I think, the most amount of miniatures that I've ever done on any film in my life." "Which I thoroughly enjoy." "You cut from one miniature shot to another." "It's a whole sequence." "It sounds bigheaded and I suppose I shouldn't say it, but I think that what we've done with miniatures, people are not going to know they're looking at miniatures." "That is what I've tried to achieve all my working life." "After a lifetime in the film industry, Derek Meddings passes away shortly after completing his work on "GoldenEye"." "He was a great enthusiast, and I think..." "he was in love with film." "He was a brilliant fella to work with." "He was happiest working." "We were nominated for a BAFTA Award for "GoldenEye"." "That would have been nice, to have sat at that table with him." "In 1999, pioneering effects man John Stears, who is responsible for much of the magic in the early Bond films, passes away." "We went far and above what was the norm for effects in those days." "We set the genre for effects." "Bonds to me are probably the highlight of my career." "But John Richardson, Chris Courbould, Paul Wilson and others continue the tradition." "We did some great stuff, blowing over vehicles with a jet." "Firing rockets at cars coming towards us." "Ammo trucks." "We just kept building it up and building it up." "What made the Bonds the Bonds?" "They've always been a little over the top." "Thanks to special effects geniuses like John Stears, Derek Meddings," "Chris Courbould and John Richardson, when James Bond goes over the top, he's gone in the best of style." "Nobody does it better."