Editing James Bond (section)

=== Gadgets ===
[[File:Little Nellie.jpg|alt=Small, one man, open-cockpit helicopter on a lawn about the size of a car next to it, with a man sitting in it.|thumb|right|The ''Little Nellie'' autogyro with its creator and pilot, [[Ken Wallis]]]]

Fleming's novels and early screen adaptations presented minimal equipment such as the booby-trapped [[attaché case]] in ''From Russia, with Love'', although this situation changed dramatically with the films.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jenkins|first=Tricia|title=James Bond's "Pussy" and Anglo-American Cold War Sexuality|journal=The Journal of American Culture|date=September 2005|volume=28|issue=3|pages=309–317|doi=10.1111/j.1542-734X.2005.00215.x|issn = 1542-7331 }}</ref> However, the effects of the two Eon-produced Bond films ''Dr. No'' and ''From Russia with Love'' had an effect on the novel ''The Man with the Golden Gun'', through the increased number of devices used in Fleming's final story.{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=234}}

For the film adaptations of Bond, the pre-mission briefing by Q Branch became one of the motifs that ran through the series.{{sfn|Lindner|2009|p=112}} ''Dr. No'' provided no spy-related gadgets, but a [[Geiger counter]] was used; industrial designer Andy Davey observed that the first ever onscreen spy-gadget was the attaché case shown in ''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]'', which he described as "a classic 007 product".<ref name="Davey">{{cite journal|last=Davey|first=Andy|title=Left to his own devices|format=abridged from print copy|journal=[[Design Week]]|date=3 October 2002|url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/left-to-his-own-devices/1103407.article|access-date=7 November 2011}}</ref> The gadgets assumed a higher profile in the 1964 film ''Goldfinger''. The film's success encouraged further espionage equipment from Q Branch to be supplied to Bond, although the increased use of technology led to an accusation that Bond was over-reliant on equipment, particularly in the later films.{{sfn|Lindner|2009|p=169}}

{{Quote box|quote="If it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago!"|source=—Q, to Bond, ''Licence to Kill''|width = 20em||align =left}}

Davey noted that "Bond's gizmos follow the [[zeitgeist]] more closely than any other&nbsp;... nuance in the films"<ref name="Davey" /> as they moved from the potential representations of the future in the early films, through to the brand-name obsessions of the later films.<ref name="Davey" /> It is also noticeable that, although Bond uses a number of pieces of equipment from Q Branch, including the [[Wallis WA-116 Agile|Little Nellie]] [[autogyro]],{{sfn|Cork|Stutz|2007|pp=200–201}} a [[Jet pack#Bell Textron Rocket Belt|jet pack]]{{sfn|Jütting|2007|p=128}} and the exploding attaché case,{{sfn|Cork|Stutz|2007|p=221}} the villains are also well-equipped with custom-made devices,<ref name="Davey" /> including [[Francisco Scaramanga]] ([[Christopher Lee|Chistopher Lee]])'s golden gun,{{sfn|Jütting|2007|p=77}} [[Rosa Klebb]] ([[Lotte Lenya]])'s poison-tipped shoes,{{sfn|Griswold|2006|p=41}} [[Oddjob]] ([[Harold Sakata]])'s steel-rimmed bowler hat{{sfn|Black|2005|p=117}} and Blofeld ([[Telly Savalas]])'s communication devices in his agents' vanity case.<ref name="Davey" />