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a new Beatles documentary using the 55 hours of in-studio footage that were shot in early 1969 for the 1970 feature film “Let It Be.”
The announcement is being made today — on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ rooftop concert atop the Apple Records offices in London — by Apple Corps Ltd. and WingNut Films Ltd., Jackson’s production company.
No release date or plan has been set, but sources say there’s every reason to suspect that the still-untitled film will come out in 2020 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “Let It Be” album and movie.
“The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us ensure this movie will be the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’ experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about,” Jackson said in a statement. “It’s like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.”
The original “Let It Be” film has long been out of circulation, released only on VHS and laserdisc.
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/peter-jackson-directs-beatles-film-u...
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It’s been a hard day’s fight, but a group of Japanese Beatles fans have lost their bid to get police to hand over historic footage of the band’s 1966 Japan visit.
The superfans took their battle for the film — recorded by police as a security measure — all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing it was a “historical document.” Police had offered to release the footage, reportedly about 35 minutes long, but only after blurring the faces of everyone in the film except the Beatles, citing privacy reasons.
Two lower courts backed the police against a group of citizens from Nagoya who wanted the entire film released uncensored, saying it would be almost impossible to identify people in the footage more than 50 years later. But the long and winding legal battle ended last week when the Supreme Court rejected their argument, the group announced. The Beatles toured Japan only once, playing five concerts, and were trailed across the country by legions of screaming fans.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/national/crime-legal/dont-l...
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
"and we get to sit in the
"and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.”"
Assuming it's more of the same, one hesitates to say that the interaction we will be witnessing will be friendly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQx9-GXAic
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
Good read.
Good read.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/29/inside-the-beatles-final-live-performance-...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
Jackson, in his statement,
Thanks.
Jackson, in his statement, concurred with McCartney’s assessment that the 1970 film undersold just how much fun the Beatles had in the studio when they were making the album that ended up being titled “Let It Be.”
“I was relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth,” Jackson said. “After reviewing all the footage and audio that Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot 18 months before they broke up, it’s simply an amazing historical treasure trove. Sure, there’s moments of drama, but none of the discord this project has long been associated with.