Although I didn't take the original video footage, I was given permission from Jill West and Blues Attack to utilize the video for educational purposes, and in the creation of their upcoming web site. This video was "captured" (transferred from videotape to digital format) and edited using Adobe Premiere.

*This file took about 2 minutes to download at my house with a cable modem. This time will be dramatically increased with a dial-up modem...so please be patient!

*Click button to play QuickTime movie.   Jill West and Blues Attack:  2.07 MB

This project was created for a class in Digital Video Editing. I "captured" footage from the James Bond movie, GOLDFINGER, using the Media 100 Lab at school. Then I edited the digital video clips in Adobe AferEffects. The assignment was to create a "promotional" video for a movie, and to include a control panel that would appear in the DVD version.

Please be advised that video files may take a while to download, depending on the speed of your Internet connection! But it's a very fun video to watch, in my not so humble opinion! :-)

*Click button to play QuickTime movie.  GOLDFINGER Promotional Video:  3.17 MB

Roger Ebert Reviews GOLDFINGER:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/goldfinger.html

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Discover the Urban Legend
surrounding the WOMAN IN GOLD PAINT!

The following is an EXCERPT from the Urban Legend article:
http://www.snopes2.com/movies/films/goldfing.htm

Claim:  The actress who portrayed Jill Masterson in the James Bond film Goldfinger died from asphyxiation after being covered with gold paint.

Status:  False.

Synopsis:  In Goldfinger, after secretary Jill Masterson betrays her boss, the evil Auric Goldfinger, he kills her in style by painting her entire body gold. As James Bond explains when Masterson's body is discovered, covering a person with paint will cause death because the body "breathes" through the skin. He then goes on to state that professional dancers know to leave a small patch of unpainted skin at the base of the spine to prevent their falling victim to asphyxiation.

Although it was still widely believed at the time Goldfinger was made (1964) that we "breathe" through our skin and that closing off all the pores in one's body would result in a quick death, we now know this to be false. (Another commonly accepted part of this concept was the notion that leaving a small portion of the body unpainted was sufficient to ward off disaster.) As long as a person can breathe through his mouth and/or nose, he will not die of asphyxiation, no matter how much of his body is covered with paint (or any other substance). This isn't to say that painting yourself isn't unsafe, however -- clogging all your pores prevents you from perspiring and could eventually cause you to die from overheating, and toxic substances found in paint could contribute to your demise if you stay in a painted state too long.

http://www.snopes2.com/movies/films/goldfing.htm
*Click on link for full story.

*Click on images to view enlargements.

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