20 Things You Didn't Know About From Russia With Love (1963)
9. The Accidental Titles Sequence
Following a disagreement with Maurice Binder, who decided not to return as the main titles designer on the second Bond film, the filmmakers hired American graphic designer, Robert Brownjohn to replace him.
Brownjohn was inspired to film the titles being projected against belly dancers after his wife stepped in front of a slide projector. However, he was also influenced by the work of Hungarian artist, László Moholy-Nagy, who experimented with projecting light onto clouds in the 1920s.
Whilst the idea for the Bond titles sequences featuring scantily clad ladies is often attributed to Maurice Binder, who worked on many of the Bond films, it was actually Brownjohn who started this tradition in From Russia With Love, as Binder's titles for Dr. No had not taken that approach.
Brownjohn returned for his second and last contribution to the Bond franchise in Goldfinger, projecting images from that film and the previous two Bond pictures onto the gold-painted body of actress, Margaret Nolan, who stood in for that film's credited "golden girl", Shirley Eaton.