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[scissorpuppy007]

Very much looking forward to seeing the finished versions! Might I suggest, when all is said and done, that you add the Daniel Craig films to the collection too?

Yes, In time I plan on doing covers for the Craig era to match. Just depends on finding the right materials. With the Craig films be newer, there is tons of hi-res material to work from thankfully.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Scissorpuppy007 here you have some clean artwork I took from that book (sorry about the quality):
















And... "Tomorrow Never Dies" & "GoldenEye" VHS release Argentinean ads,,,






And the usual thing: more VHS covers...



http://img21.imagesh...95argentina.jpg

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http://img687.images...hemoviesvhs.jpg

http://img528.images...netaargenti.jpg

[col_007]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

found this on a blog before



James Bond movies on VHS. From Playboy, December 1985.

Edited by col_007, 29 November 2012 - 05:59 PM.

[scissorpuppy007]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

It may be the same as Goodtimes VHS releases in the states from 95. If I remember correctly it was about 2 hrs of classic bond trailers and commercials.



Goodtimes also released two other tapes. Obviously Casino Royale is the tv episode, but I'm not sure what the other one is.

Edited by scissorpuppy007, 29 November 2012 - 06:07 PM.

[plankattack]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

Nicolas - thanks for posting the "James Bond at the Movies" VHS.

Col_007 - that was a collection of all the trailers from the first 14 films - I think it came out in the late 80s. Back before YouTube, getting things like that at all, never mind in one place, was a real treat. You popped it in, and just saw trailers for about an hour. There was no linking video or audio, just trailer after trailer in order. A very good compendium.

[scissorpuppy007]

Scissorpuppy007 here you have some clean artwork I took from that book (sorry about the quality):

OH MY GOD!

What book is this from! I must have it!
I need a name, a website to buy it from... Please help!

I would go crazy for high quality scans of those!
It would make my cover making days so easy!

What is the actual size of each image in the book? Is it a full page?

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

Nicolas - thanks for posting the "James Bond at the Movies" VHS.

Col_007 - that was a collection of all the trailers from the first 14 films - I think it came out in the late 80s. Back before YouTube, getting things like that at all, never mind in one place, was a real treat. You popped it in, and just saw trailers for about an hour. There was no linking video or audio, just trailer after trailer in order. A very good compendium.

Right. Bought that somewhere here in 2005, thinking there was something special besides the trailers but no, just all the trailers from Dr No to AVTAK together. Still, the FRWL and Moonraker ones are slightly different to the DVD versions.

[col_007]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

Col_007 - that was a collection of all the trailers from the first 14 films - I think it came out in the late 80s. Back before YouTube, getting things like that at all, never mind in one place, was a real treat. You popped it in, and just saw trailers for about an hour. There was no linking video or audio, just trailer after trailer in order. A very good compendium.

Oh i see cheers for the info




VHS – TOMORROW NEVER DIES BOX – UK
Limited “Agent 007 Video Box Set” Edition Contains:
Video Tape And Two Keyrings: Micro FM Radio & Micro Camera
VHS Facts
Edition: Agent 007 Video Box Set
Release Date: 1998
Running Time: 115 Min.
Catalogue Number: S036542
Special: Bond Collection Sleeve Design On Reverse
Tape: Still Sealed
MGM, UK 1998

found that on 007collector.com

Edited by col_007, 29 November 2012 - 06:09 PM.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Scissorpuppy007 here you have some clean artwork I took from that book (sorry about the quality):

OH MY GOD!

What book is this from! I must have it!
I need a name, a website to buy it from... Please help!

I would go crazy for high quality scans of those!
It would make my cover making days so easy!

What is the actual size of each image in the book? Is it a full page?

Glad to help you my friend.

The book name is "James Bond, la obra definitiva sobre el agente 007", by Juan Tejero. It was the very first Bond book I've ever had!




It covers up from "Dr No" to "Tomorrow Never Dies" and yes, most of the 1995 artwork is there in a full page attached to each movie chapter. Only "GoldenEye" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" lack their original VHS artwork substituted for two different pics of Pierce Brosnan (this one http://1.bp.blogspot...-james-bond.jpg and this one http://www.abendblat...nkfurt-Main.jpg).

I think you'll find that one on Amazon or the Spanish eBay. Should have had reached America Latina too since I bought it in a shopping mall library in Buenos Aires back in 1998. Hope this Amazon Canada link helps you http://www.amazon.co.../dp/8489564159. Good luck!

[col_007]

VHS – ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE BOX – UK
Limited Widescreen Edition Box Contains:
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service VHS Video 136 Minutes (Remasterd Directors Cut)
25th Anniversary Special Magazine Published By The Official James Bond Fan Club, UK
George Lazenby Autograph Card & Original Movieposter Picturecard

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Great! I've got the TND Limited Edition boxset that includes the script and stills, and the "Highly Classified" doc hosted by Desmond Llewelyn. I think that's the US edition.

[scissorpuppy007]

I have that one! I'll post pics of it later today ;o)

[Shaun Forever]

VHS – ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE BOX – UK
Limited Widescreen Edition Box Contains:
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service VHS Video 136 Minutes (Remasterd Directors Cut)
25th Anniversary Special Magazine Published By The Official James Bond Fan Club, UK
George Lazenby Autograph Card & Original Movieposter Picturecard

This always confused me as a kid, what does it mean by Directors Cut? the only thing that separates it from some of my other
UK releases, was bizarrely - the gumbold safe cracking scene was completely missing from them all, where as this new set had it.


On another note, anyone else have issues with the Gunbarrell on their 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' VHS? there is no opening iris, it literally jumps from
Bond shooting, to M's office.

Probably an issue with my VHS, dust or something.

[scissorpuppy007]

It was just their way of labeling the original cut, but calling it a director's cut wasn't the proper title.From what I have heard was early VHS tapes were limited to the 2hr mark, so a master was created with edits to trim OHMSS down to 2hrs. Up until 1995 that same master was used in most non US releases, probably only in countries with the PAL format.
Not sure about the gunbarrel issue, that seems odd.

[scissorpuppy007]

Here is the pics of the US Tomorrow Never Dies Limited Edition Boxset, this came out in Fall 1998, around the same time the normal TND vhs hit stores it buy. Althought alot of stores only put this Limited Version on the shelves, hoping to make an extra buck.





It features...
TND Vhs
The World of 007 Vhs
7 b&w stills
The shooting script (w/printed Brosnan signature)
Numbered certificate

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

On another note, anyone else have issues with the Gunbarrell on their 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' VHS? there is no opening iris, it literally jumps from
Bond shooting, to M's office.

Probably an issue with my VHS, dust or something.

Not at all. ALL the Argentinean VHS releases had the same scenes cuts:

-Cut from the gunbarrel blood to M and Q (no Univex plaque)
-Cut of Bond breaking into Gumbold's office
-Cut of Campbell's attempt to access to Piz Gloria's cable car and being stop by a guard.

Also, the YOLT VHS here was re-edited too. The teaser just cuts from the Jupiter 16 capsule to Bond laying dead in the bed. Then, the titles and after the titles we get the capsule abduction plus Bond getting shot and his "funeral".

[scissorpuppy007]

What's that James Bond at the Movies VHS never seen that before

found this on a blog before



James Bond movies on VHS. From Playboy, December 1985.

Very cool! The CBS/FOX editions were released through 1984-1985. The were initially released to the rental market and became sell throughs in 1985/86.
I'll put together all the covers I have of them and post them soon, unless someone beats me to it

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

These ones from Mexico

[starschwar]

This was my introduction to classic Bond:

Top:


Rear:



Sides (scanner doesn't do the reflective material justice):


Front:

[scissorpuppy007]

Ok, so I'm back. We are about to go on a journey into the original U.S. home media releases of James Bond.
I know the basics of the timing of these releases but anything pre cbs/fox shady as far as when and how many titles were released in different formats.

Ok, so first off in the early 80's there were 2 major formats at war for home media VHS and Beta. There were also two others Laserdisc and RCA Video disc.
Bond was being released on all of these formats, mostly for the rental market. But you could own one too, it would just cost you anywhere from 59.95 to 109.95.
At first studios were hesistent to allow people to own the movies and the tapes were priced for the rental market only.

Bond first made his way to VHS and Beta through the 20th Century Fox video banner. This was just before United Artists was completely taken over by MGM to become MGM/UA. This would have been in 80-82ish. Sortly after 20th Century Fox video made a deal with CBS for it's libary of titles to form CBS/FOX Video. Now what is unclear is
why the Bond films stayed with CBS/FOX as MGM/UA had their own video label. I can only guess United Artists signed some sort of deal with Fox before MGM took them over, this must have ran through new films into 1990, as all bond films up until LTK premiered on CBS/FOX video. MGM/UA didn't get the home video rights for Dr. No-AVTAK back until 88/89 when they released their gold label collection. They retained home video rights for TLD in 1992 and LTK in 1994.

I'm not sure how many bond's were released on the 20th Century Fox label before it became CBS/FOX. But here are a few.
The boxes were much larger than normal vhs case we have come to know, the tape slid out from the side, in a plastic tray.
Notice the large red VHS label, that was to let renters know the difference between VHS and BETA, which was a huge format war at the time.



Here is a large scan of the Dr. No cover which features original art that hasn't been used on anything (to my knowledge) since.


Under the 20th Century Fox label, some early Laserdiscs were released as well.




As with VHS, it's unclear how many of the films were released on the 20th label before the CBS/FOX label started.
It seems by the time they got around to releasing the more films in the large boxes for rental CBS/FOX had started.




If this Beta release is anything to go by, The CBS/FOX label started with Goldfinger. But it's unclear if Fox were releasing VHS and BETA copies of a film at the same time.



SO these big boxed versions were on the rental market in the early 80's, Starting with Octopussy the smaller cased CBS/FOX collection was being made available to rental outlets. By this time videodisc was dead and beta was on it's last legs. The home media market was opening for collections and the studios now saw dollar signs. I Imagine CBS/FOX new their grasp on the complete Bond collection was running out and wanted to make some money before the series went back to MGM/UA.

The videos began to become available to purchase for an affordable price (29.95!) in 1985, various titles were released in 1986 as well. AVTAK was initially a rental only, which would become the norm until DVD hit the market 12 years later. Here is a CBS/FOX ad from 1986 advertising the collection, You'll see Dr. No and a few others listed.

http://img.photobuck...0c95b5446_b.jpg

The CBS/FOX collection was mainly just ported over designs from the 20th century and eariler CBS/FOX rental packaging.
For the most part it was templated designs, I guessing the reason was to save on printing costs. Which at the time wasn't as cheap as it is today.

The choice of artwork is interesting, Dr. No had original artwork featured. Wether this was commissioned for the tape itself or rare/unused art from the theatrical runs is unclear.
FRWL,GF and YOLT used a still shot of the films, While the rest used original poster artwork. Strange choices seeing that graphically the templetes made the releases match but the choices of cover artwork didn't with them being a mix of original art, still shots. alternate art and poster art. All the covers used the original posters title logo, except OHMSS which uses a generic font for the title. This cover is also an oddity as it crops the original poster heavily and hides the fact it's a bond film somewhat. I guess they didn't want to use the face of Lazenby on the cover?

http://img.photobuck...4thdQQ60_12.jpg


By 1987 CBS/FOX had moved away from the templates on the cover design (still keeping them for the spine and back cover).
Who could forget Happy Anniversary 007! I always liked this art (even though it's based on TLD poster design).
http://img.photobuck...tnerallrovi.jpg


By the time Licence to Kill was released they had dropped the template all together and were about to change over to Fox Video. Here is the complete covers to the 1985-1990 CBS/FOX home video vhs collection.

http://img.photobuck...etro/cbsfox.jpg
Here is a pic from ebay that shows the complete collection (with other titles mixed in)
http://img.photobuck...t7WHLB60_57.jpg

http://img.photobuck...t71nN160_57.jpg

Here is a look at some scans of the CBS/FOX titles
http://img.photobuck...D-LET-DIE-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...MOONRAKER-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...-BOND-007-1.jpg

If you want to know what's next on the Bond vhs timeline, check out my post on page two!


I'll be back soon with a look into the RCA videodisc artwork!

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

How much interesting information about Bond VHS round the globe! Maybe we can put all this together and make a main page article if the mods agree, you know... we provide the pictures, you provide the world (as William Randolph Hearst said quoted by Elliot Carver)

[scissorpuppy007]

Upon reading up on some info, it seems that BOND made his home media debut on RCA Videodisc!

RCA as a CED format and a label was the first to release the films onto home media! And check out this artwork!
In 1979 or 1980 before MGM and UA merged and signed the deal with 20th Century Fox, They allowed RCA to release
Dr. No-Moonraker on the RCA disc label.














Check out the DAD font! Looks like the same that was used in 1997 for TND! Pretty Cool!







http://img.photobuck...oonraker-11.jpg


Now what's really odd, is in 1981 there was an inbetween phase. MGM/UA merged and didn't yet sign the deal
with cbs/fox. MGM/UA home video had a CED release of FYEO!

http://img.photobuck...-only-ua-11.jpg


Then in 1983 CBS/FOX took over the VideoDisc rights as well. But they only released some of the films.
Even though the format was pretty much dead by 1986, they released AVTAK.

http://img.photobuck...dr-no-cbs-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...-love-cbs-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...wice-zcbs-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...rever-cbs-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...ldeng-cbs-1.jpg

http://img.photobuck...only-cbs-21.jpg

http://img.photobuck...ctopussy-11.jpg

http://img.photobuck...o-a-kill-11.jpg

Odd choices to re-release YOLT,DAF,TMWTGG over more loved titles like Goldfinger, LALD and TSWLM.
Dr. No and FRWL made sense, FYEO made sense as it was the newest film at the time. OP and AVTAK were
released later when they were the new films. Wonder why the didn't finish the series? Perhaps RCA's contract for some titles
hadn't run out yet?

[Double-0-Seven]

Very informative as always! I really enjoy your posts. I know so much about Bond that sometimes it feels like I have nothing new to learn. I've learned a lot from your posts though, that's for sure!

One comment I want to make on the earlier scans that Nicolas did is that I like how The Living Daylights cover originally has the jeep in the background. Of the standard North American The James Bond 007 Collection releases, I always felt like the Dalton covers were the weakest. Him posing with a fiery background and him on a generic gray background. Rather dull! At least that (and the License To Kill variation with Pam on the cover) added to them so it matched more with the other films.

[Shaun Forever]

On another note, anyone else have issues with the Gunbarrell on their 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' VHS? there is no opening iris, it literally jumps from
Bond shooting, to M's office.

Probably an issue with my VHS, dust or something.

Not at all. ALL the Argentinean VHS releases had the same scenes cuts:

-Cut from the gunbarrel blood to M and Q (no Univex plaque)
-Cut of Bond breaking into Gumbold's office
-Cut of Campbell's attempt to access to Piz Gloria's cable car and being stop by a guard.

Also, the YOLT VHS here was re-edited too. The teaser just cuts from the Jupiter 16 capsule to Bond laying dead in the bed. Then, the titles and after the titles we get the capsule abduction plus Bond getting shot and his "funeral".

That must have been so confusing when you originally watched the film, were there any other strange cuts on
any of the home videos you owned?


Love this sort of stuff.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

On another note, anyone else have issues with the Gunbarrell on their 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' VHS? there is no opening iris, it literally jumps from
Bond shooting, to M's office.

Probably an issue with my VHS, dust or something.

Not at all. ALL the Argentinean VHS releases had the same scenes cuts:

-Cut from the gunbarrel blood to M and Q (no Univex plaque)
-Cut of Bond breaking into Gumbold's office
-Cut of Campbell's attempt to access to Piz Gloria's cable car and being stop by a guard.

Also, the YOLT VHS here was re-edited too. The teaser just cuts from the Jupiter 16 capsule to Bond laying dead in the bed. Then, the titles and after the titles we get the capsule abduction plus Bond getting shot and his "funeral".

That must have been so confusing when you originally watched the film, were there any other strange cuts on
any of the home videos you owned?


Love this sort of stuff.

Only YOLT and OHMSS. Oh, and also a short scene in TMWTGG, where a wide shot of the junk is shown and Nick Nack keeps insulting Bond when he's "dealing" with him. Bond just says: "shut up". That was cut in Argentina's VHS.

To the rest, what was Videodisc? same as Laser disc? All home video systems I know are VHS, Betamax, DVD, VCD, Super VCD, DivX and BluRay.


"Goldfinger" Warner Home Video (full sleeve)




And, for those curious, "GoldenEye" had the 1998 cardboard box release here too (Pan&Scan and Widescreen options, with just the trailer as extra feature):




Anybody here has some "GoldenEye" rare VHS or Laserdiscs scans? for my Facebook page (facebook.com/goldeneyedossier). Thanks in advance!

[Double-0-Seven]

CED, or videodiscs as they were commonly called, were a bit of a precursor to Laserdisc:

http://en.wikipedia....Electronic_Disc

That last GoldenEye sleeve is neat. I never knew any of the Bond's were released in the cardboard style DVD slips. I always hated those snap cases. Thankfully they're more or less totally phased out now.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Thanks for the info. I'm way too young to remember, I've grown up with VHS hehe

[Shaun Forever]

Indeed, I remember Warner Bros used to use them quite a lot.


Who remembers the Phillips CD-I, it was a games console/CD-I (or is it VCD?) player.

I remember a box set that featured the first three films, had the poster artwork as well. I've actually got Goldfinger and Moonraker somewhere, each
film used two discs!

Edited by Shaun Forever, 30 November 2012 - 06:32 PM.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Now that I've remembered, in Argentina there was a VHS edition that featured the European poster artwork, instead of the blu-ish American poster version made for DVD/VHS.



The spines and back where exactly as the version I posted, but the cover had the artwork seen avobe with the LA title ("El Mundo no Basta", with a big 007 logo behind the title instead of below). This edition was available for sell in a Tower Records style shop named Musimundo back in 2000. I now regret not buying it :(

[scissorpuppy007]

This weekend I will be posting and running down the THX 1997/98 DVD releases and the various Laserdisc releases.
Doing some research and image finding tonight and so far it's going well. This thread has been really fun to be apart of ;o)