{"id":789,"date":"2012-10-04T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/10\/04\/james-bond-screen-tests-reveal-what-might-have-been\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:49:00","slug":"james-bond-screen-tests-reveal-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/10\/04\/james-bond-screen-tests-reveal-what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond screen tests reveal what might have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2012\/09\/james-bond-auditions-1967\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"158\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gMkDQjq3edU\/UG3jc-F_GvI\/AAAAAAAAAI4\/femkKg8YDHI\/s200\/179-520x414.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>The good folks at Retronaut have once again unearthed some rarely seen behind-the-scenes photos from the set of an iconic movie. Retronaut previously brought us some <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/retronaut-unearths-frankenstein-on-his.html\">entertaining pictures of Frankenstein in repose<\/a>. This time, they found a series of photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2012\/09\/james-bond-auditions-1967\/\">the auditions to replace Sean Connery as James Bond <\/a>in 1967. There&#8217;s at least one familiar face in the bunch: George Lazenby, who played James Bond in <i>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service<\/i>, is featured in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is seeing what scenes they used to test each actor. Of course they have the requisite dramatic poses (see right), but it&#8217;s telling that most of those scenes involve him smoking, fighting, or sharing a moment with a female companion in various states of undress.<\/p>\n<p>Media Services has a small selection of James Bond movies. While George Lazenby isn&#8217;t part of it, you still catch some of the original Sean Connery movies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055928\/\">Dr. No<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 4994<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057076\/\">From Russia with Love<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 5018<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058150\/\">Goldfinger<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 4995 <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059800\/\">Thunderball<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 4996\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at Retronaut have once again unearthed some rarely seen behind-the-scenes photos from the set of an iconic movie. Retronaut previously brought us some entertaining pictures of Frankenstein in repose. This time, they found a series of photos from the auditions to replace Sean Connery as James Bond in 1967. There&#8217;s at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,290],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}