Never-before-seen footage On Her Majesty's Secret Service - The Blofeld Files

The authors of The Blofeld Files have released never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In 2005, while researching the book James Bond and Switzerland (James Bond und die Schweiz, available at Amazon), the authors met the son of Alfred Zurschmiede. His father, now deceased, was the ski stunt coordinator on On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1968.

Rolf Zurschmiede invited them to his home in Lauterbrunnen and showed what his father had kept from the shoot: Swiss assault rifles made of papier-mâché, ski goggles, prop pistols, skis, and costumes. The garden fence was made from the filter panels that had once been mounted in front of the restaurant windows on set to reduce incoming light.

Then, almost casually, Rolf Zurschmiede mentioned that there was also a film his father had made. Minutes later, an old 8 mm projector and a screen were set up in the living room.

The film was threaded. What they saw was astonishing. Between 1968 and 1969, Alfred Zurschmiede had shot and edited a roughly thirty-minute documentary. No one outside the family had ever seen it.

Rolf Zurschmiede made the material available to the people from The Blofeld Files. They digitized the film. 

All videos are now available on The Blofeld Files website for the first time, as a world premiere. Each video contains uncut excerpts from that footage.

The Lost Bond Films:

Part 1: Escape from Piz Gloria
Part 2: The minced-meat scene
Part 3: Scuffle on Piz Gloria
Part 4: Could Lazenby Ski?
Part 5: The Bob Run
Part 6: Ski Chase
Part 7: Crash-Test Dummies

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