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Difference between this and 'What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA'

posted 18 years ago by rockdontrun-2
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Most of this video is made up of the Maysles "What's Happening" documentary produced for Granada Television in England. The major differences between the original documentary and the current video are the inclusion of the Ed Sullivan Show and Washington Collisem performances, adding roughly twenty minutes to the final film. Does anyone know if there are other differences? Was anything cut or any other additional footage added?

[–] ryan-beanstalk 16 years ago

Caught part of a screening of the original What's Happening last night. Lots of footage cut and replaced by the Sullivan/Washington Coliseum stuff to keep The Beatles First U.S. Visit film the same length. All the footage plus more is part of the Making Of Bonus on the First U.S. Visit DVD. The new cut is more palatable, with all the music, but I wish they'd kept the original in tact.

[–] rockdontrun-2 16 years ago

Thanks. It was playing in Hollywood at the Egyptain theater a couple of months ago but I didn't see it. Apparently, it was the first time the film had ever been screened on the west coast. I really wished I'd seen it.