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From: Subject: This year marks the 50th anniversary of James Bond movies. Web of Stories presents a video archive of Bond's production designer and Oscar winner Sir Ken Adam Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:28:21 +0000 If you're having trouble viewing this message, click to view in our default browser Rlogo, Web of Stories :: Press Release 2<b>SIR KENNETH ADAMC/b> Web of Stones Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London WIT OLB 1+44 0 20 7323 0323 iw bofstones EFTA01181734 SIR KENNETH ADAM NOTES FOR EDITORS ABOUT WEB OF STORIES London, UK I Tuesday 2 October 2012 Everyone has a story to tell. Over time many For immediate release stories become forgotten, but now Web of Stones offers members of the public the chance to tell their stones for future generations to enjoy. The project is built on the belief that we This year marks the 50th anniversary of the James Bond all have wonderful stories to share, and have franchise which began in 1962 with the innovative Dr No. To family and friends whose tales we would kke to hear. celebrate, you can watch the legendary production designer Sir Ken Adam's videos on Web of Stories where he shares his Web of Stones began as an archive of life stones told by some of the great scientists. behind-the-scenes memories of the iconic movie brand. writers and artists of our time. As the number of stones grew. it became obvious that some were on related topics and that a web was slowly The world-famous spy movie franchise is one of the most effective sets of that being created of connected stones. set to release the 23rd James Bond film, film, and several critics remarked on it Skyfall, to a worldwide audience in and said that this set the style for future We welcome anyone to come and talk about October and November 2012. Peek Bond films.' virtually anything they like. Just like our famous behind the scenes of the woiid's most- speakers. we hope you will record your stories for others to enjoy. loved secret agent movies by watching lie also recounts how sometimes the series of captivating video clips on things didn't go to plan with the Bond Web of Stories. sets, and how he had to use his CONTACT creativity: 'We had to do some shots on For more information on Web of Stories or any Sir Ken Adam OBE (born in Berlin, 5 a real submarine, and the Americans other video interview with Web of Stories please February 1921) is a production designer had promised that we could use one of contact the Press Desk on teld 0 20 7323 0323 or who made his name with his ground- theirs and then they got cold feet.. and EFTA01181735  breaking semi•futuristic sets for the then the Royal Navy turned us down as Should you west" to refer to Web of Stories and James Bond films of the 1960s and well, so we didn't have a submarine. our video nterviews please ensure that a link to Web of Stones is clearly viewable on your site. 197Os, including Goldfinger, Thunderball, And what we did... we cut one of the Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. submarines into three or four pieces He also worked on Barry Lyndon and The and put them on low loaders and took Madness ofKing George, winning an them somewhere down on the south Oscar for both films. coast, assembled the pieces and floated them on big drums, like a raft Watch the set designer share his Bond really, and if you look at the film you experiences, including his first reading of wouldn't tell the difference because the Dr No script: 'l got the first 100 pages Roger (Moore) and Barbara Bach are of Dr No, and... I thought they were pretty lowered down from a helicopter into the awful, frankly' conning tower of the submarine, and you would really believe it's a... real He reminisces about a set on Dr No that submarine floating at sea.' had slipped his mind which, thanks to his ingenuity, went on to be the most Watch these fascinating, insightful successful set of the film: There was a recordings, and many more, as a near disaster with the last set, which I'd number of short clips, with a fully forgotten about... So I came up with... a searchable transcript. All Web of sort of a minimum set. I had one chair, Stories videos are easy to share with had a copper door and I had a table in friends and colleagues, and may be the foreground with the cage and the embedded into personal blogs and tarantula - the real tarantula - in the cage. websites. And strangely enough, I Mink it was probably To find out more click here ) O2012 Web of Stories I wI o Illr For further information, please reply to EFTA01181736