![]() ![]() ![]() Creating acid hallucinations for mainstream audiences In the end music and love triumph, celebrating the hippie values of the 1960s. Taking Yellow Submarine as its driving force, the titular vessel is cast away from Pepperland across the Seas of Time, Science, Monsters, Nothing and Holes as The Beatles journey to drive away the Blue Meanies. The result is a segmented film driven by songs written for the film, much like Disney’s Fantasia with the animated images corresponding to the lyrics. To call it a “Beatles film” perhaps assigns the band too much credit. To meet the contract specification that they would appear, a short live-action coda sees the four in little more than a cameo. Perhaps the strangest part of Yellow Submarine is that John, Paul, George, and Ringo aren’t actually played in the film by, well, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.Īfter being dissatisfied with their second film, Richard Lester’s Help!, they attempted to complete their three-film contract with United Artists by being involved as little as possible. With the medium of animation predominantly associated with child audiences at the time, the move away from the quasi-documentary style of films like A Hard Day’s Night was radical but in-keeping with The Beatles’ inventive sensibilities. Emerging in 1968, Yellow Submarine is a unique animated concert film which visualises the psychedelic voyage of the album of the same name released the following year. ![]() As we prepare for this epic Beatles tour, it’s a fitting time to revisit their most enigmatic film. ![]()
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