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.
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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Monday 25th June 2012 11:02 GMT Stuart Castle
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 10:37 GMT Lallabalalla
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 08:28 GMT Spiracle
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 12:50 GMT L.B.
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 10:01 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
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 :)
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Monday 25th June 2012 10:02 GMT TedF
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 14:59 GMT Dana W
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.
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Monday 25th June 2012 16:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
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