Oscar-winning production designer, Dennis Gassner recalls "Working on the Day of the Dead section of the film was one of the most exciting things I have done in my career, ever". The Bond art department commissioned local independent artists to create animated puppets. The results were gigantic skeleton puppets and floats, the tallest of which towered eleven metres high. The papier-mâché/composition skeleton puppets required six puppeteers to operate each of them. At the end of filming in Mexico, five of the puppets were transported back to Pinewood Studios for further filming and the others were donated to the Mexican government to be used in future Day of the Dead parades.

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