Its Cult Soundtrack has been Vindicated by History too, for having some of the band's greatest hits, including "The Fool on the Hill", "I Am The Walrus" and the Title Track. As time went by Magical Mystery Tour has been re-appreciated as a charming time document with surreal comedy that was ahead of its time. So the project became their first flop, signalling all the events that would eventually lead to the band's break-up in 1970. (Even if it had appeared on BBC 2, which was airing in colour, very few viewers owned colour sets.) It was especially bad for the "Flying" sequence, which was simply filmed abstract colour-shapes. This hurt the film because that particular channel wasn't airing in colour yet. It was envisioned for theatres, but instead aired on BBC 1 on December 26, 1967. Legend has it that many of the incidents and complications that plagued the shoot were more interesting than the film itself.
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stuff happens, allegedly at the whim of "four or five magicians," and in the end everyone goes to a strip club.īasically, the Beatles and a bus full of other people drove around for two weeks, wrote the script on the way, filmed things on a whim and hoped something magical would happen. Richard Starkey, who is constantly bickering with his aunt, purchases a ticket to the titular mystery tour. The Beatles's third film, and definitely the weirdest. This poster is in excellent condition. Please refer to the imagery (both front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale."When a man buys a ticket to a magical mystery tour, he knows what to expect." The film received an American theatrical release in 1974 by New Line Cinema, and in select theatres worldwide in 2012 by Apple Films. It was poorly received by critics and audiences, although its accompanying soundtrack was a commercial and critical success. A colour transmission followed on BBC2 on 5 January 1968. The film originally aired on BBC1, in black-and-white, on Boxing Day, 26 December 1967. The film is interspersed with musical interludes, which include the Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes' "Death Cab for Cutie". Shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches and situations.
Much of Magical Mystery Tour was shot in and around RAF West Malling, a decommissioned military airfield in Kent, and the script was largely improvised. Paul McCartney is credited with conceptualising and leading the project. The premise was inspired by Ken Kesey's Furthur adventures with the Merry Pranksters and the then-popular coach trips from Liverpool to see the Blackpool Lights. It is the third film that starred the band and depicts a group of people on a coach tour who experience strange happenings caused by magicians. Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 British made-for-television musical film directed by and starring the Beatles. It aired in the United States on ABC on 10 January 1967. In West Germany, it aired on 2 August that year. The documentary first aired on BBC1 on 1 March 1966. Fourteen cameras were used to capture the euphoria and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965. Clay Adams, was filmed by a large crew led by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo. The project, placed under the direction of manager of production operations M. The documentary was directed and produced by Bob Precht (under the Sullivan Productions banner), NEMS Enterprises (which owns the 1965 copyright), and the Beatles company Subafilms. The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.
This is an original Japanese poster printed in 1977 for the original release of The Beatles at Shea Stadium / Magical Mystery Tour.
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