Ultimately, roughly 10 hours of material had to be trimmed down to 52 minutes. 25, took far longer than expected at 11 weeks. The bulk of filming was done in two weeks but the editing process, which began on Sept. They were Come Dancing dancers, the real thing, brought down from Newcastle, Cardiff and Birmingham. "Bribes had to be produced, and signed pictures. "Like when the generators collapsed before the formation dancers had to go home," he said. Such an elaborate, disorganized approach ensured that things went wrong from time to time, Losey confirmed. You can see by the fun expression on his face that he wasn’t forced into anything." Just the fact of John dancing, which he did readily. "I said, 'Sod it, you’ve got to have the Busby Berkeley ending,' and it is a good sequence. "The big prop was that great big staircase that we danced down, that was where all the money went: in that particular shot on that big staircase,” McCartney remembered in Many Years From Now. Watch 'I Am the Walrus' From 'Magical Mystery Tour'īills quickly ballooned, notably around the very costly "Your Mother Should Know" scene, but McCartney deemed it necessary. "There was nobody there blowing a whistle and stamping their feet and saying, 'Do this and do that.'"
Pretty much anything was fair game, as assistant producer Gavrik Losey told the Guardian in 2012. In another set location clue, RAF Air Training Corps cadets come marching through. The ballroom scene for "Your Mother Should Know" took place in an old air-craft hangar, the sequence for "I Am the Walrus" was filmed right out on the runway. 25, with many scenes being filmed at the Royal Air Force West Malling, a decommissioned military airfield in Kent. The bulk of work took place through Sept. "If somebody wanted to do something we hadn’t planned, they went ahead. "We knew most of the scenes we wanted to include, but we bent our ideas to fit the people concerned, once we got to know our cast," Lennon later admitted. (O'Dell would go on to head Apple Films for the Beatles in 1968.) But the lack of a clear plan doomed the project from this very first day. They had experienced help from co-producer Denis O'Dell, who had worked as an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night, as well as 1967's How I Won the War starring John Lennon. Instead, he brought along a hand-drawn, circular diagram with sketched possibilities for the film, which he dubbed a "scrupt."
11, 1967, McCartney did indeed have an idea – lots of them actually, but not a definitive script. Watch a Trailer for 'Magical Mystery Tour' Ringo Starr placed the blame on McCartney. 26, 1967, it understandably confused viewers. "It wasn't the kind of thing we could do a disclaimer before it and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to see is a product of our imaginations,'" Paul McCartney said in 2012's Magical Mystery Tour Revisited, "and believe me, at this point they're quite vivid." When the 52-minute film was first broadcast across British televisions on Dec. The film is designed to be structureless – a stream of consciousness that might best be compared to Ken Kesey's trip with the Merry Pranksters - underscored with the songs that would appear on the Magical Mystery Tour album. A group of friends and family embark on a bus trip, and various strange happenings ensue thanks to a cohort of "magicians" – four of whom are played by the Beatles themselves and the fifth by their long-time road manager Mal Evans.
It is difficult to describe the plot of Magical Mystery Tour, namely because there really isn't one.
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