The Beatles Yellow Submarine restored
Long absent from video stores, The Beatles' trippy 1968 animation Yellow Submarine has been painstakingly restored for its Blu-ray debut. With the original elements in a perilous state of decay, the movie has been meticulously cleaned and repaired frame by frame. The soundtrack has also had a 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio makeover. …
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How many times do they have to bring out a restored, digi updated amazing, new issue, with unseen footage, widescreened, HD'ed version of old mediocre films. Stick th the originals, how it was made and should look films. They tend to be better when unaltered.
Errrr... if you read the review it says that the original (which you want to stick with) wasn't on release and was starting to decay. You may not be aware of this, but George Lucas actually was not the director of Yellow Submarine.
The Sixties
The Sixties. The horrible realization that our parents may actually have had more fun than we did...
Re: The Sixties
... and with final salary pensions, cheap home ownership and early retirement commonplace they still are having more fun than we do or will do.
Re: @ravenviz The Sixties
Er, me too.
No sign of the alleged final salary pension yet, and I've missed the boat for early retirement.
Re: The Sixties
The hippies from the 60's are now _in_ their 60's.
Re: The Sixties
And, as this years Reith Lecture points out, government debt is no more than the previous generation financially screwing the next.
But cheers for the music, guys!
Re: The Sixties
Whereas the hippies of today are in #EtherSec and #ProjectMayhem2012
Counter Culture has never been stronger. The only difference is today the media try to down play it and say it all happened back in the 60s.
RE: the King Features Beatles cartoons
There's loads of examples on YouTube although you'd be better off forgetting that anybody told you about it. Terrible accents, dire laughter track and godawful everything else.
Re: RE: the King Features Beatles cartoons
Correction: no laugh track. I feel dirty for checking...
Re: RE: the King Features Beatles cartoons
True. The only one who sounded at least vaguely like he was supposed to was Ringo. One of the others (not sure if it was meant to be John or George) had an accent that seemed to shift from Yorkshire to Ireland via Wales.
Also, I can't remember any of the Beatles speaking with an RP accent.
"Long absent from video stores"
Hmmm, I wonder where my copy on DVD came from then?
Re: "Long absent from video stores"
Yeah - me and the kids have been enjoying this for the last year or so, and it looks nicely analogue. I also have a DVD of Magical Mystery Tour - now that really does look very ropey. But the quality of the content is not merely the quality of the reproduction of the content (geddit?) which is why I long ago gave up obsessing over my HiFi and and just started listening to the music again.
Sir
I once thought this would be awesome to watch on mushrooms, but it turns out that it just makes it dull.
Must be some kind of weird psychedelic nullyfying effect.
Re: Sir
If I were you I'd take the mushrooms back to the supermarket and complain that they don't work.
Re: Sir
The whole point of mushrooms is that they make normal things go weird, something which this film was attempting to do.
The Beatles also turns out to be crap music to listen to unless you're straight and sober, although Hey Jude's a good drunken singalong.
Re: Sir
You never listened to Sgt. Pepper's then? Or Magical Mystery Tour, which IMO is hugely underrated.
MMT track listing includes I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby You're A Rich Man and All You Need Is Love.
I remember the animated series screening in the UK sometime in the early seventies, though god-knows where. Having just woken up to their music during the beardy-psychadelic years (I was born in '63) I remember that seeing 'Baby's in Black' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style by the mop-tops as being a little confusing.
re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
My younger sister (1968-) was surprised when she found out that the Beatles had done a cover of this Sesame Street song.
Re: re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
I remember now - it was during one summer's 'Champion the Wonderhorse' /'Whirlybirds' slot on the BBC. I'm guessing '72.
Re: re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
Sorry, that should have been 'CHAMPIONNNNNNNNNNNNNN THE WONNNNNNNNNNDERRRRRRHOOOOOORSSSSSSE'
Re: re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
And don't forget those other BBC Summer/Xmas/Easter holiday morning TV classics of:
Flash Gorden (1936) and Buck Rogers (1939) both with Buster Crabbe, Cassy Jones (1959), White Horses (one for the girls), with the occasional “Laurel & Hardy”, “Buster Keaton” and other silent era classics (L&H had a few with sound).
Yep I'm another child of 1963.
Re: re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
White horse wasn't just for the girls - I was in lust with Julia years before I knew what it meant...
Re: re 'Yellow Submarine' performed in a Hanna-Barbera style
Whirlybirds! Woah!
Cartoon Beatles
Seen cartoon Beatles on TV in AUS a long time ago. Dire. Cheap repetitive animation and one-dimensional plot. Aimed at the pre-school market.
I can't imagine
this being nearly as relevant as it was when I saw it the year it came out. I must be getting old.
Drop a tab and watch the film
It's the dullest thing ever, actually more entertaining 'unenhanced'
AC, obviously, in case Mum's reading.
Re: Drop a tab / AC, obviously, in case Mum's reading.
> AC, obviously, in case Mum's reading.
And how do you suppose Mum watched it when it came out?
Re: Drop a tab / AC, obviously, in case Mum's reading.
It's a very strange concept, but the wackiest thing I ever saw when tripping was a party policital broadcast by the labour party (quite some time ago I might add).
Prescott litterally looked like a slug in a suit, then it kicked in and things got weirder :)
Re: Drop a tab / AC, obviously, in case Mum's reading.
"Prescott litterally looked like a slug in a suit"
I can see that taking nothing stronger than nice cup of tea.
Graphics - trippy Audio - Overwhelming
A distinct improvement on my DVD copy with pin-sharp graphics (though the 'dodgy' artwork in Bulldog scene still grates.) Audio seems over cooked though with alarming surges and stereo image leaping about at times. A colourful, one-off featuring the Fab Four.
Eddie Yates/Onslow as the voice of Paul
How bizzare.
Nice one Geoff!
2nd restoration?
The 1990s DVD rerelease was digitally restored and there was a minifeature showing just how badly the originals had deteriorated. I can't remember if it had DTS (couldn't play that anyway) or the other features mentioned.
Hey Bulldog.
Despite the scene looking a bit unfinished, I'm glad they put "Hey Bulldog" back in in 1999, and very glad to have it verified here. It's absence left what felt like a distinct cut in the film. The scene preceding it where the Beatles and "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" get each other up to speed on the situation is one of my favorite scenes.
I'm guilty in my younger days of seeing it in altered states of mind, and I think I enjoy it more for that. Not for any pseudo-mystic reason, but for the fact that it let me see the explosions are all full of colored swirls and flower-like shapes.
George Harrison and the Cartoon Beatles
There's an interview with George where he described the time when the Beatles were granted an audience with Elvis Presley at his house. They were quite stoned by the time they arrived and all fell out of the limo "like a Beatles cartoon".
Not sure which cartoon he was on about, but it might have been the TV one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWSfqQcJ9tE&feature=related
Watched it as a kid and found it tedious. Watched it as an adult and found it both tedious and toe curlingly self indulgent. Now the Magic Roundabout's Blue Cat is a weird animated film that's stood the test of time.
ah memories
Driving 300 miles with a 4 year old in the back seat who sang "we all live in a yellow submarine" continuously.
However she only knew the chorus and not the tune.
There are many worse things than "Are we there yet?" every 5 minutes.
The Point
When does Ringo's little allegory get the Blu-Ray treatment?
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