Fractured Flickers announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips. A fly-by-night real estate development, for example, was illustrated with clips of buildings being destroyed by a cyclone (from "Steamboat Bill, Jr." with Buster Keaton). And "This moment of softness (explosions, wild parties, etc.) has been brought to you by Bee. Bee, the only tissue woven in mid-air by bees!" Regular features were the "Minute Mysteries", featuring Stan Laurel as master detective Sherman Oaks (his scenes "fractured" from his 1925 short comedy, "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde"), and the weekly "tributes" to some American city. Each
Dr. No (film) all appeared in subsequent films. These conventions were also lampooned in spoof films, such as the "Austin Powers" series. The first spoof films happened relatively soon after "Dr. No", with the 1964 film "Carry On Spying" showing the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor). A further legacy saw the sales of Fleming's novels rise sharply after the release of "Dr. No" and the subsequent films. In the seven months after "Dr. No" was released, 1.5 million copies of the novel were sold. Worldwide sales of all the "Bond"