The summer of 1976 had been a quiet time in the British film industry and UK cinema admissions were falling massively - they'd plummeted to 103 million from an earlier all-time high of 1.6 billion. Set against this backdrop was little old me, self-employed with a young family and a mortgage. I was always very anxious when I didn't have my next job lined up and this was one of the most anxious times as I'd been out of work for several weeks after a holiday in Devon.
Every time the phone rang, I jumped up hoping it was word about a job, but invariably it would be a neighbour or friend calling about something quite inconsequential.
It got to the point I thought I might never work again.
However, then came one call that changed my life forever. A lovely woman named Golda Offenheim was at the other end of the phone; she was a production secretary and coordinator of some note, and a really lovely person, too. "Keith? Derek Meddings suggested you might come and help us as we need some plates photographing" "OK," I answered, "and where are you working?"
"At the moment I'm standing near Love Beach in the Bahamas," she replied.
I think I'd already packed my bags and was on my way to the airport before she'd finished talking. Not only was it to end the temporary drought of work I found myself in, the film was The Spy Who Loved Me and marked my first contact with the world of 007 and Eon Productions.
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THE FEW ON SCREEN
Steven Taylor looks at the Battle of Britain across film and TV
Table Service
Rachel Toy looks at the history of Ridgway Homemaker tableware
Hever Forever
Claire Saul studies the newly refurbished Boleyn Apartment at Hever Castle & Gardens - a castle fit for a queen
Shining a Light
Tony O’Neil tunes into the history of the last manned lightvessel
The Man With the Goldeneye
Film stills photographer Keith Hamshere describes how he came to enter the world of James Bond
THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN BALLS
lan Wheeler looks back on 70 years of Tiger comic and Roy of the Rovers, and chats to the man who edited and oversaw both titles
To Play the Queen
Chris Hallam looks back on the life of one of the UK’s best known lookalikes
POOLING RESOURCES
Martin Handley looks at what life was like after the Vernons Girls
POSTCARD FROM= SUSSEX
Bob Barton indulges in pleasure piers and fairground delights, as well as fulfilling a long-held ambition to visit the home of Rudyard Kipling
Oh, Miss Jones
Chris Hallam looks back at the origins and legacy of Rising Damp, ITV's most successful sitcom