Photographer, Sylvan Mason who is the daughter of screenwriter, Jack Whittingham, has created a series of canvas prints of storyboard drawings from the first ever, ill-fated Bond film.

In 1959 an entrepreneur, Kevin McClory, wanted to make Ian Fleming's 'Thunderball' into a movie and Whittingham was commissioned to write a screenplay appropriate for the UK cinemas. At that time, the first seven Bond books had been turned down for being too violent and unbelievable!

Therefore, the first Bond film should have been Thunderball but the film was held up by legal complications and actually became the fourth to be released.

A series of pre-production storyboard drawings by Steven Grimes are now available to buy, printed onto canvas and produced by Sylvan Mason. The images portray what the production team imagined the Thunderball movie to look like way before any Bond films went into production. The images were also taken to the 1959 Venice Film Festival to try to drum up support for the project.

Movie stills, posters and art make fantastic canvas prints, with images easily uploaded to a canvas-printing company's website who will turn the image into a quality, long-lasting print.