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Casino Royale (1967) – Title Sequence by Richard Williams | 35mm 4K Restoration

A restored 35mm 4K scan of the iconic title sequence and montage effects created by Richard Williams for the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale. This restored transfer preserves the original film grain and animation detail so you can experience Williams' lively, hand-crafted line work and timing exactly as seen in cinemas in 1967. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 ABOUT THIS RESTORATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This sequence was restored from original 35mm theatrical elements in the film's native 2.35:1 Panavision aspect ratio (3840×1632). The restoration preserves Williams' intricate hand-drawn animation and the optical compositing techniques that defined 1960s title design. This material is part of the Richard Williams archive being preserved for my upcoming documentary: "Richard Williams and the Making of Roger Rabbit." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 ABOUT THIS SEQUENCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Richard Williams (whose Soho Square studio produced many celebrated title sequences in the 1960s) was credited for the film's title design and montage effects. His playful, hand-drawn approach provides a lively visual counterpoint to Burt Bacharach's score and Herb Alpert's main title arrangement used in the film. Williams' title work for Casino Royale followed earlier title commissions (What's New Pussycat? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and helped cement his reputation as one of Britain's leading title-sequence artists of the era. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎞️ WHY THIS FILM MATTERED IN 1967 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Casino Royale (1967) was an unofficial, broad parody of Ian Fleming's novel and the Bond template. Produced outside the Eon franchise and featuring a parade of high-profile directors and a star-studded cast, the picture was emblematic of 1960s cinema's appetite for big, experimental, and often chaotic studio spectacles. Reaction at release was mixed—critics found the film disjointed—but its marketing, celebrity cast and the Bond name drew large audiences. PRINCIPAL CAST & CREATIVE HIGHLIGHTS The film's ensemble includes David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Orson Welles and many more — a cast that was unusual for its scale and variety. Directors credit for different segments includes John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish and Joe McGrath. BOX-OFFICE PERFORMANCE Despite uneven reviews, Casino Royale performed strongly at the box office: it was among the top-grossing films in North America in 1967 and earned roughly $41.7 million worldwide on a budget reported around $9–12 million. It even set opening records at London's Odeon Leicester Square when it premiered in April 1967. Disclaimer: Property of Columbia Pictures. Edited and enhanced by ‪@borsu.animation‬ for educational and historical preservation purposes only. #RichardWilliams #CasinoRoyale #AnimationHistory #TitleDesign #35mmRestoration #4KRestoration #1960sAnimation #FilmPreservation #BurtBacharach #JamesBond