The credits of the leading players, Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, are projected respectively onto the dancer’s rippling belly and closed thighs, the credits of their co-stars appear upon her inner thighs and so on so until each part of the body has been appropriated by text. The projection of the numbers is whisked down her body, rests for a few moments on her gyrating hips, and disappears. In the third image, a woman’s wide staring eyes appear through the double OO of Bond’s OO7 identity.
Throughout the sequence the credits are written in the same brightly colored sans-serif capitals. In the second image of the sequence this same credit is projected onto a flat background and the dancers arms play in light of the projector, she acts as a screen which catches and distorts the type. The lights are a projection of the words ‘Ian Fleming’s James Bond in From Russia With Love written in multicolored script, which at this point are entirely illegible. From Russia with Love Titles by Robert Brownjohn 1963īJ’s titles sequence for ‘From Russia With Love’ begins with a belly dancer moving against a black background with a series of colored lights playing across a female body.