Global James Bond Day (5th of October)

What: Global James Bond Day 
When: 5th of October 

James Bond, Agent 007, Licensed to Kill, has starred in the longest-running and most successful movie franchise of all time, spanning five decades. Six different actors have brought their own individual qualities to the role of the ruthless, stylish superspy saving the world from evil.

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SEAN CONNERY

Dr. No (1962)

From Russia with Love (1963)

Goldfinger (1964)

Thunderball (1965)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Never Say Never Again (1983, an unofficial 007 film)

GEORGE LAZENBY
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

ROGER MOORE

Live and Let Die (1973)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Moonraker (1979)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Octopussy (1983)

A View to a Kill (1985)

TIMOTHY DALTON

The Living Daylights (1987)

Licence to Kill (1989)

PIERCE BROSNAN

GoldenEye (1995)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Die Another Day (2002)

DANIEL CRAIG

Casino Royale (2006)

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Skyfall (2012)
SPECTRE (2015)

Goldfinger's use of Odd Job's hat trick - is it possible?

Leading scientists and engineers have studied stunts in James Bond films.

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) warns Bond (Sean Connery) not to meddle in his affairs by instructing Odd Job (Harold Sakata) to throw his metal-brimmed bowler hat at a stone statue a few metres away.

The hat flies through the air like a Frisbee, decapitating the statue with a single clean cut.

Metin Tolan, professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Dortmund says that it is possible to do this, but the hat would need to be very heavy and thrown very fast.

'There is a contradiction here as it is not easy to throw something that heavy, that quickly,' he says.

'You would need the strength of Odd Job for this. It would be beyond an ordinary person.'

He adds that to take the statue's head off, the density of the metal in the hat rim would have to be higher than that of the stone. Also, the pressure at the point the brim of the hat hits the statue must be high.

Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC

Professor Tolan explains: 'Pressure is force divided by area. When the hat strikes, the area that hits the stone statue is very small, so the pressure very high. If you just throw a stone, the area striking the statue is much larger and therefore the pressure is much smaller.'

Source: James Bond 007: 7 Bond stunts - E & T Magazine

Goldfinger's use of Odd Job's hat trick: POSSIBLE

007 Related book: Bond in Motion 007

Book: Bond in Motion
Pages: 96
Language: English


London Film Museum
The largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles

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Bond hotel won: Hotel Schweizerhof Bern World Travel Awards

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HOTEL SCHWEIZERHOF BERN RECOGNISED AS "SWITZERLAND'S LEADING BUSINESS HOTEL 2016" AT WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS


Bern, 6th September 2016 - On Sunday, 4th


September 2016, a number of outstanding achievements in the travel and tourism industry were recognised at the World Travel Awards Europe Gala in Sardinia. The Hotel Schweizerhof Bern won top honours in the category "Switzerland's Leading Business Hotel".

The five-star superior Hotel Schweizerhof Bern is adding another award to its long list of
accolades. At the 23rd edition of the prestigious World Travel Awards, Bern’s legendary
hotel was nominated in two categories, "Switzerland's Leading Business Hotel" and "Switzerland's Leading Hotel Suite”, and in the first of these categories, the Schweizerhof won first place, besting five competing nominees. "We are very proud to have won this prestigious award as Switzerland's Leading Business Hotel," said General Manager Iris Flückiger. “It encourages us to keep on focusing on exceeding our guests' wishes.”


The Hotel Schweizerhof, located at Bern’s most central address, offers 11 rooms totaling
some 800 m2 in area that are ideal settings for a wide variety of occasions from meetings
and seminars to conferences and banquets. The centrepiece is the 350 m2 Salon Trianon,
a listed ballroom featuring impressive stucco ceilings, imposing marble columns and
chandeliers in the original Belle Epoque design. The three smaller salons, I to III, offer a
unique atmosphere as well for meetings and celebrations of all kinds. Featuring state-of-
the-art equipment, the hotel’s meeting rooms provide solutions tailored to meet all the
needs of a contemporary workplace. The hotel’s technology was completely upgraded in
2015 to guarantee that guests have access to infrastructure of the highest quality.


Since April 2015, some 150,000 honeybees have also been staying at the Hotel Schweizerhof Bern, housed in three "mini-hotels" on the roof terrace, where they produce the hotel’s own “Sky Deluxe” honey. The hotel is contributing toward the survival of
honeybees and promoting ecological balance.


For more information about the World Travel Awards ceremony, see
www.worldtravelawards.com.
Hotel Schweizerhof Bern
Daniel Huggenberger, PR & Communications Coordinator
Bahnhofplatz 11, 3001 Bern
T +41 31 313 70 94
F +41 31 326 80 83
E-Mail: daniel.huggenberger@schweizerhof-bern.ch

www.schweizerhof-bern.ch

007 Travelers congratulates!


Hotel Schweizerhof Bern is also a Bond hotel. Outside and inside shots were filmed there when George Lazenby starred as James Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969. 007 Travelers was lucky enough to visit this hotel in 2014. See the introduction of this splendid hotel by 007 Travelers here. 

ASTON MARTIN DB5 - Everything you need to know about 007’s iconic car

Ian Fleming’s "Goldfinger" (1959) novel specified that Bond drive a gadget-laden Aston Martin DB Mark III for the chase across Europe. The Mark III was introduced in 1957, the year before Fleming wrote Goldfinger. In preparation for the filming of "Goldfinger" (1964), production designer Ken Adam and special effects’ John Stears visited Aston Martin Lagonda to make a deal with them for a car. On their visit they fell in love with the DB5 prototype and managed to secure it for the movie.

The DB5 returned in "Thunderball" (1965), repaired after Bond’s crash in "Goldfinger" but then didn’t appear for another 30 years until "GoldenEye" (1995). A version of the iconic car was also featured in "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "The World Is Not Enough" (1999), "Casino Royale" (2006), "Skyfall" (2012) and "SPECTRE" (2015).

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Text source: 007.com 
Photos: 007.com (except the photo of 007 Travelers in "Bond in Motion exhibition in London, England", photo  © 007 Travelers.  

Mika & Pirita / 007 Travelers
Photo  © 007 Travelers, by Little Agent Traveler

Here are some of Sir Ken Adam’s sketches for the gadget-laden Aston Martin DB5 that appeared in GOLDFINGER (1964)