July 27th 
Happy and Glorious**                               
(GB 2012)
BBC. 5m.

James Bond escorts the Queen by helicopter from Buckingham Palace across London to the Olympic stadium.
The prize gimmick of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, a quite niftily made little short with some clever trickwork (animating Churchill's statue), and suitably entertaining for these sorts of occasions.

p: Lisa Osborne
d: Danny Boyle
s: Daniel Craig, H M Queen Elizabeth II

+ the Queen's "double" for the helicopter scenes was Julia McKenzie

A major coup for Danny Boyle: after sixty years of on-screen portrayals by the likes of Jeanette Charles, Helen Mirren and others, the real thing decided to have a go.