The museum’s archives feature more than 100 boxes of Dahl’s personal possessions.<\/p>\n
The new temporary display included a photograph of the writer on set with the film’s director, Lewis Gilbert, and Roald Dahl’s own souvenir 007 tie.<\/p>\n
The display also featured Dahl’s personal set of boules, along with his own invention of a magnet on a string, which Dahl used for picking up each boule. <\/p>\n
Mr Phillips said it was “clear to see that the same mechanism he designed for lifting his boules also appears in the film where the Japanese secret service picks up SPECTRE’s henchmen with a magnet suspended beneath the helicopter”.<\/p>\n
He added that Dahl’s inventiveness came up in his children’s books and the Bond screenplay. <\/p>\n
“The suction boots which appear in his first book, The Gremlins, and his last book, Billy and the Minpins, also make an appearance when Sean Connery’s Bond is descending into Blofeld’s volcano lair,” he said.<\/p>\n
The manuscript will be on display at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre until 31 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The museum’s archives feature more than 100 boxes of Dahl’s personal possessions. The new temporary display included a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-280348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}