"In
the pre-credit sequence, Bond's Aston Martin
sprays the villains, and the screen fills with
water. I thought it could lead into the girls
swimming around, so I shot them in an underwater
tank, in silhouette. These were two gals who swam
professionally, in nightclub tanks, but they said
they didn't want to swim nude. I told them that
if they wore bikinis, it wouldn't quite work. As
a compromise they agreed to makeup as dark as
possible. Then they walked out on the deck of the
tank, absolutely nude and said: "This is not
us. We're unrecognizable." We photographed
them underwater against white panel and I did the
bubbles against a black velvet background. It was
all shot in black and white and I put the colour
in optically."
Maurice Binder
After the global success of
'Goldfinger', it was decided the next film in the
series would be filmed for the first time in
anamorphic widescreen (Panavision - 2.35 : 1) to
give it the epic look.
The
previous three Bond films used only a spherical
lens with an aspect ratio of 1.85 : 1 (US) /
1.66: 1 (Europe). The original gun barrel had
featured Bob Simmons on black and white film.
The
'Thunderball' gun barrel was filmed with Sean
Connery on colour film.
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