Maurice Binder was an American film title designer best known for his work on 16 James Bond films, including the first, Dr No, and for Stanley Donen's films from 1958.
10 Facts About Maurice Binder
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In 1951, Maurice Binder directed two short films in the obscure Meet Mister Baby series; these films were preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
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Maurice Binder created his first film-title design for Stanley Donen's Indiscreet.
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Maurice Binder provided sequences for Donen for Charade and Arabesque, both accompanying music by Henry Mancini.
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Maurice Binder described the genesis of the gun-barrel sequence in his last interview in 1991:.
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Maurice Binder is known for featuring women dancing, jumping on trampolines and shooting weapons in his title sequences.
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Maurice Binder was succeeded by Daniel Kleinman as the title designer for GoldenEye.
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Maurice Binder shot opening and closing sequences involving a mouse for The Mouse That Roared, a sequence of monks filmed as a mosaic explaining the history of the golden bell in The Long Ships and a sequence of Spanish dancers in The Day the Fish Came Out.
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Maurice Binder was a producer of The Passage and a visual consultant on Dracula and Oxford Blues.
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Maurice Binder died from lung cancer in London in 1991 at the age of 72.