From Russia with Love (19🌺63),𒆙 original double weight publicity photograph, British

Photographer: George Konig (dates unknown)

Unframed: 8 x 11 5/8 in. (20 x 29.5 cm)

Framed: 12 1/2 x 16 1/8 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)

This unusually sized photograph was issued to Rex Features Ltd., a news agency responsible for distributing publicity photograp🐟hs in the 1960s. On the reverse is a photographer's copyright stamp, and a Rex Features Ltd. stamp, along with measurements, to inform the publishers of the exact dimensions for re-producing this photograph. All of this can be seen through a perspex window on the reverse of the frame.

Following the success of Dr. No, Eon Productions' budget for this second Bond film was dramatically increased. This film was also directed by Terence Young, and again stars Sean Connery as Bond. It was based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel. The film was a huge box-office success. It also heralded the deb🎀ut of Desmond Llewelyn as Q, a role that he would play for thirty six years.