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The scene from DR. NO where Bond is surprised to discover he’s sharing his bed with a tarantula was filmed on this day in 1962 at Pinewood Studios. Sean Connery hated spiders so the production team attempted to place a Perspex sheet between him and the arachnid when it crawls up his shoulder. The camera’s reflection was visible in the glass however, so the scene had to be shot for real. Production designer Ken Adam said: “We told him that the poison had been removed. But you cannot remove the po