Despite this, it is not as if Yellow Submarine has no merit, the animation is stylish and colorful and of course there's the iconic music of the Beatles to carry through the film. ![]() The Beatles were less than enthusiastic about the second film, Help!, which was far more outlandish, and even less so about their Saturday Morning Cartoon, so they didn't want to offer their own voices to the animated film made by the same people beyond a short cameo at the end. Before this point, there had already been two feature films about John, Paul, George, and Ringo, the first of which being A Hard Day's Night, a clever, humorous and beloved movie following a day in the lives of the Beatles (and Paul's grandfather). ![]() Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated film as part of a three-film deal by the United Artists Corporation with The Beatles, little needs to be said about who they are. But then someone finds a picture of Nicolas Cage in a Superman suit, or concept sketches for an adaptation of the musical Cats that looks ten times better than the one we got, and you can't help but imagine the alternate universe where these ideas came to fruition. When a work is discarded, it's completely shielded from the eyes of the public, a work that is never produced or finalized is one that should never be seen, no matter how close it was to completion, or how much hard work was put into it. While there are more ghoulish examples of lost media which we can only hope never see the light of day, it can be a way of breaking down a wall that seems impenetrable between executives and audiences. A pilot for an American Sailor Moon that was known to exist was finally captured and posted to YouTube in full, a lost episode of Sesame Street starring The Wizard of Oz's Margaret Hamilton unfortunately considered too frightening for children, and even a full animatic of Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye. With art direction and production design by Heinz Edelmann, Yellow Submarine is a classic of animated cinema, featuring the creative work of animation directors Robert Balser and Jack Stokes with a team of animators and technical artists.Lost media discovery, the art of media archeology where intrepid researchers dig for as much as they can on films, television shows, and animation long abandoned and considered dead, has been given a lot of attention over the past few months over recent discoveries. ![]() Inspired by the generation’s new trends in art, the film resides with the dazzling Pop Art styles of Andy Warhol, Martin Sharp, Alan Aldridge and Peter Blake. Yellow Submarine, based upon a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, is a fantastic tale brimming with peace, love, and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.” When the film debuted in 1968, it was instantly recognized as a landmark achievement, revolutionizing a genre by integrating the freestyle approach of the era with innovative animation techniques. This was all done by hand, frame by frame. Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements. The film’s songs and score were remixed in 5.1 stereo surround sound at UMG’s Abbey Road Studios by music mix engineer Peter Cobbin. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Picture Services and Eque Inc. Yellow Submarine was restored in 4K digital resolution by Paul Rutan Jr. and UMG have teamed to give Beatles fans of all ages the opportunity to come together and share in this visually stunning movie and soundtrack and Universal Music Group (UMG), will have a theatrically rerelease of The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, across North America this July in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
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