Talk:The Beatles in film

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The Linda McCartney Story[edit]

On the surface, The Linda McCartney Story might not count as a Beatles film, however, all four Beatles were depicted, and a larger segment of film was about the latter days of the Beatles and the tension between them. Should it be included here? 98.221.141.21 (talk) 05:54, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Inspired by The Beatles[edit]

Would this be a good place to stick fictional movies inspired by The Beatles or with Beatles themes? Examples:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film) (1978)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film) (1978)
Across the Universe (film) (2007)

This came up because an editor wanted to append Across the Universe to The Beatles. Seems like this movie should be linked to Wikipedia Beatles-space, but at the time I'm typing this, it is not. / edg ☺ ☭ 21:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Disney's The Jungle Book[edit]

Were the Beatles ever signed to play the vultures (Buzzie, Ziggy, Dizzy and Flaps) in Disney's The Jungle Book? This is stated in both The Beatles in film#Other and The Jungle Book (1967 film)#Trivia. "Dropped out at the last minute" (as it says) implies the deal was well-known and more or less confirmed, so verification should exist somewhere. The characters are obvious Beatle parodies, which may have inspired some editor to performe some original research.

If someone can source it for this article, The Jungle Book (1967 film)#Trivia also needs a the same reference. / edg ☺ ☭ 00:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correction?[edit]

I have always thought, and have heard/read many times that it should be "on film". Otherwise it should be "The Beatles in Films", or "The Beatles' Films".--andreasegde (talk) 08:51, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On Film Implies footage that they are actually in and heavilly implies documentary footage, though would include their films and recordings of them playing.(92.40.132.198 (talk) 21:28, 12 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

In the studio[edit]

The list of times when the Fabs were recorded on documentary movie film while actually rehearsing/recording in the studio seems to be short enough, especially after 1964, that such a list could be included here as well, no? Two such sessions after 1964 I could name that do not include the Let it be film would be the Hey Bulldog session on 11 February 1968 in EMI Studio Three (the footage of which was originally used for the official promoclip to Lady Madonna at the time, before being re-edited into an actual music video for Hey Bulldog in 1999 to coincide with the re-release of Yellow Submarine to theaters as well as with the re-releases's re-mixed songtrack), and a session of rehearsing/recording Hey Jude in late July/early August at Trident Studios that same year and that was used in the Anthology mostly to illustrate the White Album sessions (some of it also appeared in the Anthology cut of the Lady Madonna clip, the visible main difference being in their hair that has grown considerably in India while with the Maharishi, especially John's, plus Ringo suddenly wearing a moustache that he didn't have in February, and the Trident Studios room is much larger and brighter than the darkish EMI Studio Three). Both shooting sessions were directed by Tony Bramwell. --93.232.130.11 (talk) 15:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Holy Mountain[edit]

Under 'Individual projects' would it be ok to add Holy Mountain?

The film was produced by the Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music and Records, after Jodorowsky scored an underground phenomenon with El Topo and the acclaim of both John Lennon and George Harrison (Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)