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Songs you'll never forget, the film you've never seen and a story that's never been heard. In 1967, in the wake of the extraordinary impact of Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles made a film - a dreamlike story of a coach daytrip, a magical mystery tour. It was seen by a third of the nation, at 8.35pm on BBC1 on Boxing Day - an expectant public, hoping for some light entertainment for a family audience.
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Magical Mystery Tour was greeted with outrage and derision by middle England and the establishment media. 'How dare they', they cried, 'They're not film directors, who do they think they are?'
Where were the four lovable moptops of Help! And A Hard Day's Night?
What propelled The Beatles to make this surreal, startling and - at the time - utterly misunderstood film? Roll up roll up for the Mystery Tour! Show more / Show less.
Here's a nice change of pace! Here's a documentary on the making of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film. Below are the notes from the back of the case: THE BEATLES - MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR MEMORIES is an upbeat rockumentary film featuring the vivid memories of those who witnessed the making of the cult Beatles movie, The Magical Mystery Tour, in 1967. It features a celebrity cast along with anecdotal stories and unseen 8mm home movie footage, as well as eye-witness accounts from fans, on-lookers and the cast of the movie.
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The 1988 VHS release cover art Written by Directed by John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr (uncredited) Starring John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Miranda Forbes Narrated by John Lennon Composer(s) Shirley Evans (accordionist) Country of origin Original language(s) English Production Producer(s) John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Dennis O'Dell Cinematography Daniel Lacambre Richard Starkey M.B.E. Editor(s) Running time 52 minutes Production company(s) Distributor (US) Release Original network Original release 26 December 1967 ( 1967-12-26) Magical Mystery Tour is a 52-minute-long British starring (, and ) which originally aired on on, 26 December 1967, in a monochrome transmission at 8:35 PM. It was repeated in a colour transmission on on 5 January 1968. Upon its initial showing, the film was poorly received by critics and audiences. The film received an American theatrical release in 1974 by, and in select theatres worldwide in 2012.
Contents. Plot The situation is that of a group of people on a British mystery tour in a 1967 coach, focusing mostly on Mr Richard Starkey and his recently widowed Aunt Jessie. Other group members on the bus include the tour director, Jolly Jimmy Johnson ; the tour hostess, Miss Wendy Winters (Miranda Forbes, credited as Mandy Weet); the conductor, Buster Bloodvessel ; and the other Beatles (, and ). During the course of the tour, 'strange things begin to happen' at the whim of 'four or five magicians', four of whom are played by the Beatles themselves and the fifth by the band's long-time road manager. During the journey, Starkey and his Aunt Jessie argue continually.
Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays increasingly eccentric and disturbing behaviour. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each of the passengers employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people pedal a long bike, while Starkey ends up beating them all with the bus). In one scene, the tour group walk through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office and are greeted by the army drill sergeant.
(McCartney appears briefly as 'Major McCartney', on whose desk rests a sign reading 'I you WAS'.) The sergeant, shouting incomprehensibly, appears to instruct the assembled onlookers on how to attack a stuffed cow. The tour group also crawl into a tiny tent in a field, inside which is a projection theatre. A scene in a restaurant shows a waiter (played by Lennon) repeatedly shovelling onto the table in front of Aunt Jessie, while arriving guests step out from a lift and walk across the dining tables.
The film continues with the tour's male passengers watching a strip show (Jan Carson of the ). The film ends with the Beatles dressed in white, highlighting a glamorous old-style dance crowd scene, accompanied by the song '. The film is interspersed with musical interludes, which include the Beatles performing ' wearing animal masks, Harrison singing ' while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road, and the performing and ' ' sung by Stanshall. Initial idea The movie was an attempt to combine the free-wheeling fun of 's 1964 cross-country American bus tour aboard ' with the, and the then-popular trips from to see the. In, Lennon states that 'if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. Television was the obvious answer.'
Most of the band members have said that the initial idea was McCartney’s, although he stated, 'I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. It could have been mine, but I’m not sure whether I want to take the blame for it! We were all in on it – but a lot of the material at that time could have been my idea.' Prior to the movie, McCartney had been creating home movies and this was a source of inspiration for Magical Mystery Tour. Production. Pictured while filming a sequence for ' The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches and situations, which McCartney called the 'Scrupt'.
Magical Mystery Tour was ultimately the shortest of all Beatles films, although almost ten hours of footage was shot over a two-week period. The core of the film was shot between 11 September and 25 September 1967. The next eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes. Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut include:. A sequence where ice cream, fruit and lollipops were sold to the Beatles and other coach passengers;.
Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr each looking through a telescope;. Happy Nat the Rubber Man (, especially recruited for his 'funny walks', which the Beatles had long been drawn to) chasing women around the Atlantic Hotel's outdoor swimming pool, a sequence which Lennon directed;. Mr Bloodvessel performing I'm Going in a Field; and. The band performing their song '. Much of Magical Mystery Tour was shot in and around, a now-decommissioned airfield in.
Many of the interior scenes, such as the ballroom sequence for 'Your Mother Should Know', were filmed in the disused aircraft hangars. The exteriors, such as the 'I Am the Walrus' sequence and the impromptu race, were shot on the runways and taxi aprons. RAF cadets can be seen marching in some scenes, and during 'I Am the Walrus' a RAF is seen orbiting the group. Replica bus of the same type and livery used in the film.
The mystery tour itself was shot throughout the of England, including and, although most of the footage was not used in the finished film. The striptease sequence was shot at 's in London's district, and the sequence for ' was shot (in a somewhat clandestine manner) around, in the south of France. For the psychedelic visual sequence during the song ', production assistant Dennis O'Dell had worked previously on 's, and had secured the of Kubrick's aerial shots over, which he had filmed on 35mm black and white stock. Some of the footage in O'Dell's possession was then colorized (tinted) in alternating bold primary colors for Magical Mystery Tour.
The result is often compared by fans of both films to one of the final scenes in Kubrick's, where, using a hand-held 65mm camera, Kubrick filmed aerial scenes in the Hebridean islands, the mountains of northern Scotland, and Monument Valley on color film stock while altering the colors with filters in front of the camera lens, and inserted the footage into a brief section of the 'Star-Gate' sequence in 2001. Arguments persist as to whose idea came first, but because both films were made during the same time-frame, there is no real evidence to suggest that one copied the other. The coach used in the film, a -bodied Bedford VAL, carried the registration number URO 913E.
The vehicle was new to coach company Fox of in 1967. The acquired the coach in 1988, and the vehicle is now completely. Adobe photoshop cs6 cracked torrent. In the race, Starr himself drives the bus around the airfield racetrack. During the filming, an ever greater number of cars followed the colourful, hand-lettered bus hoping to see what its passengers were up to, until a running traffic jam developed. The spectacle ended after Lennon angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the bus.
Script The script of Magical Mystery Tour was largely improvised. The Beatles gathered together a group of people for the cast and camera crew, and told them to 'be on the coach on Monday morning'. The film was made up along the way.
Starr recalled: 'Paul had a great piece of paper – just a blank piece of white paper with a circle on it. The plan was: 'We start here, and we’ve got to do something here ' We filled it in as we went along.' Lennon recalled in a later interview, 'We knew most of the scenes we wanted to include, but we bent our ideas to fit the people concerned, once we got to know our cast.
If somebody wanted to do something we hadn’t planned, they went ahead. If it worked, we kept it in.' At one point, Lennon had a dream in which he was a waiter piling spaghetti on a woman’s plate, so the sequence was filmed and included in the movie. Some of the older actors, such as Nat Jackley, were not familiar with productions and were disappointed by the lack of one. Criticism The British public's reaction to the film was scathing.
Magical Mystery Tour initially aired in the United Kingdom as a made-for-television film on BBC1., the band's producer, explained: 'When it came out originally on British television, it was a colour film shown in black and white, because they didn’t have colour on BBC1 in those days. It looked awful and was a disaster.' The film was shown in colour on a few days later, but there were only about 200,000 colour TV receivers in the UK at the time., the band's official biographer, said that 'It was the first time in memory that an artist felt obliged to make a public apology for his work.'
McCartney later spoke to the press, saying: 'We don't say it was a good film. It was our first attempt. If we goofed, then we goofed. It was a challenge and it didn't come off. We'll know better next time.'
He also said, 'I mean, you couldn’t call the Queen’s speech a gas, either, could you?' With the passage of time, however, McCartney changed his view of the production, saying: 'Looking back on it, I thought it was all right.
I think we were quite pleased with it.' He also noted in The Beatles Anthology DVD that the film features the band's only video performance of 'I Am the Walrus'. The film carries a 58% approval rating at the review aggregator website, based on twelve professional reviews.
In, notes the similarity between Magical Mystery Tour and the exploits of and. In 1978 the film was parodied by in their Tragical History Tour, 'a self-indulgent TV movie about four Oxford history professors on a tour around tea-shops'. Distribution.
1974 re-release theatrical movie poster for Magical Mystery Tour by New Line Cinema, Mystical Films. The poor critical reaction to the telecast soured American television networks from acquiring rights to the film, while its one-hour running length made it commercially unviable for theatrical release.
In his Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years, reveals that the team considered showing the film as a curtain-raiser to their 1975 film. They received permission from all four Beatles to view the film, and did so at Apple on 10 January 1975.
Although the Pythons were interested, the idea did not go ahead. The film had its first US presentation in 1968 at the in New York City on Sunday, 11 August, shown at 8 and 10 pm, as part of a fundraiser for the.
However, it was not seen in commercial theatres in the US until 1974, when acquired the rights for limited theatrical and non-theatrical distribution. It first played on American television in the 1987 as part of a syndicated release.
Restoration The critical reception in 1967 had been so poor that no one had properly archived a negative, and later re-release versions had to be copied from poor-quality prints. By the end of the 1980s, MPI, through rights holder, had released the movie on video, and a DVD release followed many years later.
A restored version of the film was broadcast in the UK on and on 6 October 2012, following an on its making. Both were shown in the as part of on ten weeks later on 14 December. On 22 August 2012, Apple Corps (via ) announced a re-release of the film on DVD and along with a limited theatrical release, remastered with. The DVD/Blu-ray was released on 8 October worldwide, with the exception of North America (9 October).
The new release included an from McCartney and special features including interviews (from former Beatles and others involved with the project) and never-before-seen footage. Also released is a deluxe edition 'collectors box' featuring the film on both DVD and Blu-ray, in addition to a 60-page book, and a reproduction of the original mono UK. The 2012 remastered Magical Mystery Tour DVD entered the Billboard Top Music Video chart at number 1 for the week ending 27 October 2012. 21 December 1967. P. 44 – via BBC Genome. 28 December 1967. P. 63 – via BBC Genome.
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The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967 Even before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, had hit the shops, the idea of the programme had been born and work had commenced on the title track. It was decided that the soundtrack for the programme would be released on two seven inch discs which would be packaged with a booklet in a gatefold sleeve. The booklet contained stills from the show along with a comic strip telling the story. A lyric sheet was also stapled into the centrespread of the booklet. The EP was a runaway success and reached no.
2 in the UK singles chart, held off the top spot by their own single. 'Hello, Goodbye'. In the US, the double-EP format was not considered viable so instead, Capitol Records created an album by placing the six songs from the EP on side one of an album and drawing side two from the titles that had appeared on singles in 1967. These titles were 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Penny Lane', 'All You Need Is Love' - their anthem that had been broadcast around the world via Satellite in June. 'Baby, You're A Rich Man' and their current single, 'Hello, Goodbye'. The US release made # 1 in early January 1968 and stayed there for eight weeks.
Its initial chart run lasted 59 weeks!967 had certainly been a year of great achievement but it was also tinged with sadness. Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager since 1961 passed away on 27th August, 1967 at the age of 32. The US configuration for Magical Mystery Tour was later adopted by many other countries (including the UK in 1976). When the Beatles catalogue was first issued on Compact Disc in 1987, Magical Mystery Tour joined the core list of titles. NME July 20, 1967 If they aren't already planning so, the Beatles should start planning their next full-length film immediately. After watching a rough cut of their 'Magical Mystery Tour', which BBC viewers can see on Boxing Day. I am convinced they are extremely capable of writing and directing a major movie for release on one of the major cinema circuits.
The film sequences for the musical numbers are extremely clever. For 'Blue Jay Way' George is seen sitting cross-legged in a sweating mist which materialises into a variety of shapes and patterns. It's a pity that most TV viewers will be able to see it only in black and white. 'I Am The Walrus' has four of them togged up in animal costumes switching at times to them bobbing across the screen as egg-men. A special word of praise for Ringo, who more than the others comes over very, very funnily.
But praise to all of them for making a most entertaining film. I only wish they would now put out a sequel made up from the parts they left on the cutting-room floor. This is the only case of the U.S. Capitol release later becoming a worldwide L.P. Issue (and CD in the 80s) The original U.K.
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Release was a two disc 45 rpm EP. Only the songs from the film were included.
This LP has Lennon's brillant Strawberry Fields and Paul's number 1 Penny Lane recorded at the beginning of the Pepper sessions in late 1966. Presented here, a year later, the songs should have been part of the Pepper album, but EMI was pushing for a hit single. Sgt Pepper would have truly been the best Pop/Rock album of all time. And their best effort. As it stands however, Revolver earns the title of the Beatles best work. Magical Mystery has some of their best work, even if half of it was made up of singles. Taken aside from the film, the album is a pretty darn great listen.
But how could it not be? Side two totally consists of songs that made up some of the best A & B sides of singles in 1967.
Side one is pretty fine also. 'Your Mother Should Know' is probably Paul's best attempt at re-creating the music hall/vaudeville atmosphere of the '20's and '30's, and 'I Am the Walrus' is as great as British psychedelia ever got. Combine that with the punchy title track and the beauty of 'The Fool on the Hill' and you've got an ace card album. If only the forgettable instrumental 'Flying' and George's dreary 'Blue Jay Way' could have been replaced with two real winners, you would have an album that would be every bit as good as 'Sgt.
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