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PROPS: As per script and breakdown to include 3 bamboo poles from canoe, hermit crabs and repeats, as arranged with Syd Cain, special pink shells, Honey's knife, face mask, snorkel, canvas sack, Bond's gunn, Quarrel's guns, applejack jar, loud-hailer and all props for weather standby.

SPECIAL EFFECTS: Frank George to be on location with gas-operated machine gun and bullet effects.

ART DEPT: To supply on location set dressing of debris and drift-wood and six men for beach cleaning and sweeping.

VEHICLES: All vehicles to park outside Jamaica Power Service Plant. QUARREL'S CANOE - HONEY'S CANOE - GLASS-BOTTOMED BOAT - CATAMARAN - RUNABOUT BOAT. DR. NO'S LAUNCH (if available)

FIRST AID: Unit Nurse to report to Carib Hotel at 7.30.

CATERING: Lunch, morning and afternoon teas to be served on location, as arranged with Mr. Munn.

PRODUCTION: 2 Policemen to be at Carib Hotel at 7.30 a.m. please.

TRANSPORT: All transport to report to Car Park Carib Ocho Rios and heavy equipment and generator to leave at 7.15 a.m. The unit will travel in normal vehicles to locations.

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We are hoping to complete studio shooting on Friday March 30th. We have a few shots of inserts and B.P. in the Tunnel for Monday and Tuesday. We have, as you probably know, been shooting inserts all this week with a second camera crew.

Cubby, Terence and myself have been aware of the necessity for emergency and economy and we have been trying our best to keep the overages as low as possible.

To sum up, the reasons for our over budget situation are as follows:– The overage on cost in Jamaica which added approximately £20,000 to the budget and the fact that we could not make up the lost time but shot one week more than scheduled in the studio. This last fact, plus my earlier paragraphs account for the balance of the overage.

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Harry Saltzman Esq., Eon Productions Ltd., c/o Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Bucks

Dear Harry,

As an old friend I am sorry we have found it necessary to take over the production of "DR. NO". Quite frankly, I feel this is the only way in which we can make sure that the concluding stages of the picture are carried out with the maximum economy and that the overcost is not further increased.

As you know, we will henceforth be signing on the Bank account and I would ask that neither you nor Cubby nor your companies draw any amounts still due to you until such time as 1) the Terence Young matter has been put in order, and 2) any of your undertakings such as excess of legal fees etc. have been met.

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We are taking a very serious view about the sets on this picture. From Ken Adam's letter it is evident that for some time prior to the 1st February, i.e. at the very outside of the picture he had warned you that the sets and props were going to exceed the budget by approximately £7,000. A few weeks before on December 22nd Ken Adam, with whose work we are familiar and in whose judgement we trust, had written to us that he considered the budget allowance adequate. It seems therefore that it was decided at this early date to embark on a more ambitious set building operation and, although your Art Director warned you of the increase that was going to arise and which would inevitably absorb a third of your contingency, you did not attempt to cut back on these sets.

At the various meetings, the suggestion has often been made that the increase on these sets came as a surprise and that you were entirely committed to them before you realised the effect they were going to have on the cost of the picture. We feel we cannot accept this in view of Ken Adam's warning.

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Colin Crewe, Esq., Tufnell, Satterthwaite & Co. Ltd., 5, Whittington Avenue, E.C.3.

Dear Colin,

re: Consequential Loss recoveries.

The film "Dr. No" has now reached the Fine Cut stage ready for music sessions and the subsequent dubbing.

It would seem to be a very good action picture and, as you know, it is in colour. The distribution is being handled by United Artists on a world-wide basis and is the first of the "James Bond" stories which have a very large reading public.

Taking all these factors into account, I feel that recovery can be regarded as being very good.

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Dear Sirs,

"DOCTOR NO"

We refer to the advances made by us towards the cost of production of this film which advances were secured by the charge created by you in our favour and dated 10th April 1962. We hereby certify and confirm that as at the 31st December 1962 the amount outstanding in respect of advances made by us towards the cost of production of this film was £59,890 and that at 31st December 1963 all such sums together with interest payable in respect thereof had been duly repaid to us and the said charge created by you in our favour was duly discharged.