The 2012 Blu-ray cleans up the film from previous versions and features a remastered sound mix. But anyway, it’s fascinating to see the B52 footage used in a trippy way. Of course, Stanley Kubrick complained about it. It’s reused in the film because film editor Roy Benson had access to the footage. Strangelove might recognize some of the footage used during the “Flying” segment. It follows the summer of love and the transition from pop to rock.įans of Dr. The result is short of a masterpiece but this film captures a time capsule in all of its 53 minutes. For a few weeks in 1967, they went off to the countryside to make the film at RAF West Mailing in Kent.
This leaves film or television as the only available options other than recording albums. When you think about the moment in time, The Beatles are no longer performing live. Spinetti plays an army sergeant that you cannot understand.
The next moment, it’ll be the only video performance of “I Am The Walrus.” A number of people are in the cast and Victor Spinetti returns for his third Beatles film. There are four or five magicians that make things happen at the whim. But anyway, things mysteriously happen while a group of people are on a British mystery tour. Take John Lennon shoveling the spaghetti onto the table in front of Aunt Jessie (Jessie Robins), for example. If something works, it works and stays in the film. Altogether, the film draws from ten hours of mostly improvised footage.
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Magical Mystery Tour is a series of sketches shot over two weeks in September 1967. Maybe the film would have been better with Richard Lester coming back? According to both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the bonus features, this film is almost all improvisation. The Beatles are among the greatest musicians of all time but when it comes to filmmaking, it wasn’t their best effort. Here’s the thing about Magical Mystery Tour: it isn’t a film in the same sense as either A Hard Day’s Night or Help! No, this film is better looked at as a series of sketch vignettes or even a home movie. But by then, it was too late because they damage had been done. They would rectify this by airing a color version shortly thereafter. The BBC committed the terrible sin of first airing this film in black-and-white in December 1967. The Beatles do it themselves in their 1967 made-for-TV film, Magical Mystery Tour, which celebrates its 55th anniversary later this year.
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