James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design ⇥ artofthetitle.com

Ben Radatz:

[T]here are also two famous visual Bond hallmarks not of Fleming origin: the “Bond Barrel” sequence, in which white dots animate in stop-frame fashion across the screen to become a gun barrel aimed at 007, and the main title sequence: a sovereign piece of graphic real estate nestled into every Bond film, usually around 15 minutes into the first act, at the conclusion of the traditional pre-title action sequence.

So great. In related news, Skyfall will be out on the eighteenth of February.