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Beatles footage - from what concert?

posted 15 years ago by gfast
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An interesting curiosity is this film. Does anyone know from what
concert the Beatle's footage is from? It is obviously an add-on to the
feature. I would think that this Beatles footage is extremely rare as
it is filmed in the Technicolor process and in CinemaScope. Most other
Beatles footage from concerts is usually black and white and filmed
with 16mm standard (TV=4:3) ratio. A writer suggests the Beatles
footage is from A Hard Day's Night - not the case as that film was in
Black and White and certainly not in CinemaScope.

[–] 15 years ago

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[–] WhomanJim 11 years ago

The footage is from a Pathe Newsreel Short Subject called
"The Beatles Come To Town" which, as Foiled Again pointed out,
is from a Manchester gig. And it was shot in Techniscope,
which was a variation of CinemaScope (same 2.35:1 aspect ratio),
but shot "Flat" instead of "Anamorphically" -
"Go Go Mania" was also shot in Techniscope,
which made using this footage very handy!

Trivia: Geoffrey Unsworth, who did the cinematography on "Go Go Mania",
would later do same on "2001: A Space Odyssey".

"It's beyond the beyond!" - Pete Townshend

[–] scotts863 10 years ago

A Manchester concert I do believe.