Post by ajsmith on Apr 19, 2018 13:08:46 GMT
Apologies for cross posting much of the following post from the Steve Hoffman forum, but I'd only be rewriting the same info otherwise:
'I am really interested in the Beatles Abbey Road edition of Late Night Line Up, which is missing from the BBC archive, but if it was found would be a fascinating source of contemporary visuals for Abbey Road songs, an album that is otherwise not well represented by contemporary footage. The Beatles direct involvement was minimal, but apparently it included original visual items made in house by the BBC for songs; for instance a Maxwells Silver Hammer animation, which would be great to see and would fulfill the same purpose as the Yellow Submarine film by providing contemporary visuals for songs the Beatles never made films or tv appearances for.
The main info I have on this special comes from Mark Lewisohn's Beatles Chronicle book, his entry on this item reads:
'the BBC2 arts series Late Night Line-Up afforded Abbey Road unprecedented television publicity for a pop/rock album. One week ahead of its release, on Friday 19th September (BBC2 10.55 - 11.30pm) and then again on Saturday 10th October in a full repeat (11.25 12.00 pm), the entire programme was devoted to the album, with , for the most part, non - Beatles footage used to illustrate the music , of which everything but three numbers (Oh Darling, I Want You, and She Came In Through The Bathroom Window) was included. None of the Beatles participated in the programme, however, although Apple did supply photo stills and a little over four minutes of 16mm Beatles footage for screening. he content of this footage is not known, but it may have been amateur home-movie film shot when the four Beatles last came together for a photo session at Johns Tittenhurst home on Friday 22nd August'
I've heard that's it's latterly been discovered that the footage provided by Apple was most likely the 'Day In The Life' footage synched up to 'Come Together' rather than the Tittenhurst film.
Link to the thread I started here:
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/beatles-abbey-road-bbc2-tv-special-1969.654988/
Anyhow, I posted the above a year back, and gathered some remembrances and details from those who saw the original broadcast, but no info on it's possible whereabouts, until today when someone called Crunchie posted a link to the following video,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oa6vpDR_hU
as re-broadcast on the Australian VH1 style music channel 'Rage' at some point in the last few decades. On studying it, I think we could be looking at the original OG sequence from the LNLU special for reasons I postulate in the quote below:
'Actually this looks like it might have potential to be the real deal to me... the girl featured is unmistakably 60s, so we're looking at footage that was filmed in the right era.. note also that the version of OG is a 1.41 edit: edited down for timing reasons to fit in the half hour time slot? (also the reason why 3 songs got the chop completely?)
As to how this would have ended up on Australia's rage music channel.. seems fairly likely to me.. who know what music tv footage ends up getting chopped up and repurposed elsewhere. Aus imported a lot of BBC programmes. so it's more than possible they screened this 1969 AR special, kept their own copy, and extracts ended up getting recycled in this manner. Aus tv didn't go into colour till 1975 which would explain why this copy is in B/W (although it seems like the original programme, while made in colour, used a lot of stock b/w silent film anyway). '
Anyone here have any thoughts as to if this could be an excerpt from this missing special? Anyone recognise it from the 1969 broadcast? Be interested in seeing what experts here think.
'I am really interested in the Beatles Abbey Road edition of Late Night Line Up, which is missing from the BBC archive, but if it was found would be a fascinating source of contemporary visuals for Abbey Road songs, an album that is otherwise not well represented by contemporary footage. The Beatles direct involvement was minimal, but apparently it included original visual items made in house by the BBC for songs; for instance a Maxwells Silver Hammer animation, which would be great to see and would fulfill the same purpose as the Yellow Submarine film by providing contemporary visuals for songs the Beatles never made films or tv appearances for.
The main info I have on this special comes from Mark Lewisohn's Beatles Chronicle book, his entry on this item reads:
'the BBC2 arts series Late Night Line-Up afforded Abbey Road unprecedented television publicity for a pop/rock album. One week ahead of its release, on Friday 19th September (BBC2 10.55 - 11.30pm) and then again on Saturday 10th October in a full repeat (11.25 12.00 pm), the entire programme was devoted to the album, with , for the most part, non - Beatles footage used to illustrate the music , of which everything but three numbers (Oh Darling, I Want You, and She Came In Through The Bathroom Window) was included. None of the Beatles participated in the programme, however, although Apple did supply photo stills and a little over four minutes of 16mm Beatles footage for screening. he content of this footage is not known, but it may have been amateur home-movie film shot when the four Beatles last came together for a photo session at Johns Tittenhurst home on Friday 22nd August'
I've heard that's it's latterly been discovered that the footage provided by Apple was most likely the 'Day In The Life' footage synched up to 'Come Together' rather than the Tittenhurst film.
Link to the thread I started here:
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/beatles-abbey-road-bbc2-tv-special-1969.654988/
Anyhow, I posted the above a year back, and gathered some remembrances and details from those who saw the original broadcast, but no info on it's possible whereabouts, until today when someone called Crunchie posted a link to the following video,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oa6vpDR_hU
as re-broadcast on the Australian VH1 style music channel 'Rage' at some point in the last few decades. On studying it, I think we could be looking at the original OG sequence from the LNLU special for reasons I postulate in the quote below:
'Actually this looks like it might have potential to be the real deal to me... the girl featured is unmistakably 60s, so we're looking at footage that was filmed in the right era.. note also that the version of OG is a 1.41 edit: edited down for timing reasons to fit in the half hour time slot? (also the reason why 3 songs got the chop completely?)
As to how this would have ended up on Australia's rage music channel.. seems fairly likely to me.. who know what music tv footage ends up getting chopped up and repurposed elsewhere. Aus imported a lot of BBC programmes. so it's more than possible they screened this 1969 AR special, kept their own copy, and extracts ended up getting recycled in this manner. Aus tv didn't go into colour till 1975 which would explain why this copy is in B/W (although it seems like the original programme, while made in colour, used a lot of stock b/w silent film anyway). '
Anyone here have any thoughts as to if this could be an excerpt from this missing special? Anyone recognise it from the 1969 broadcast? Be interested in seeing what experts here think.