![]() “Part of our job - as with all the music films, even more so because it’s the Beatles - is to curate the theaters. In that case, what started as one- or two-week engagements in several dozen theaters was extended several times and expanded to hundreds more theaters as enthusiasm spread for the well-regarded look at the group’s legacy as the world’s most popular live act in the mid-1960s.Ībramowitz isn’t necessarily expecting the same level public response to this 50-year-old film but nevertheless said, “There is huge demand for it. The success of the 2016 Ron Howard documentary “Eight Days A Week” helped whet theater owners’ appetite for Beatles-related content, according to Richard Abramowitz, whose Abramorama distribution firm is handling the “Yellow Submarine” engagement as it did with Howard’s film. The original was restored by hand, frame by frame, rather than using automated software. We got the big thumbs-up, the validation by the people who had created it.”Ĭontemporary audiences will have the chance to experience the remixed music as well as the 4K digital restoration of the film itself that was done in 2012 for the DVD/Blu-ray home video release. They’d never heard things remixed before, let alone in a surround sound format. ![]() Ringo just couldn’t get over the detail of hearing things he’d never heard in the old recordings…. “The amount of enthusiasm they all had was just unbelievable. “It was one of those days I’ll just never forget,” he said. “Ringo was there, Paul and Linda were there, George was there, and Yoko was there. “Despite some trepidation - we were all a little nervous about it - it was a wonderful afternoon,” he said. “That happened in the early stages of 1998. “Finally when everyone were feeling pretty good about it, the big day came when the Beatles came in to listen to it,” Cobbin recalled. Yet he was charged not only with creating a stereo mix for the film’s soundtrack, which originally was in mono, but he also had the task of coming up with a 5.1-multichannel version that could be shown in theaters as well as enjoyed by the relative few consumers who had surround sound systems at home at that time. Two decades ago, Cobbin recalled, the world of surround sound audio for film was relatively young. “I’m also a musician,” he said by phone from London recently, “and there aren’t many people in music who wouldn’t like to engage in the world of the Beatles.” “What a thrill to be listening to the material on the original tapes,” said Cobbin, an Abbey Road Studio engineer who first got involved remixing more than a dozen Beatles songs for the 1999 re-release of “Yellow Submarine.” If you buy or get a chance to see this flick, watch the Lucy In THe Sky With Diamonds sequence, then tell me Im wrong.There aren’t a lot of people who are handed the key to one of music’s most beloved properties and told, essentially, to go have fun with it.īut that’s pretty much what happened to audio engineer Peter Cobbin when he was given access to the Beatles’ original master tapes to create new mixes of songs for an anniversary reissue of the band’s colorfully inventive 1968 film “Yellow Submarine,” the animation classic that will embark on a 50 th-anniversary theatrical run with its recent 4K restoration on July 8. of it!Īfter watching this film,with its superb animation and correography to the songs, I begin to wonder if this film might have caused THE SPARK in someones brain which led to modern Music Videos. Nuff History?Įrgo,over 30 years later, I bought and watched this film for the 1rst time.I loved every min. Even a Breakfast Food manufacture of the time(again,I recall but wont say which) p ut Beatle Rub-Ons in their product packages. I still recall the ADs for this movie being in comic books at the time.A Plastic Model Co.(remember, but wont say which)of the time offered a kit of The Sub. Dad was watching All in the Family or something. When it came to TV years later,I missed it again(2 Airings). I bought this film because I was too young(Dad said so) to go see it when it played the theatres in 68(I was 9 yrs. Young or OLD,Yellow Submarine is a completely enjoyable piece of Cinema History. ![]() Much of the music of that era is alive and well still.(A fact for which I am greatfull.)Where would todays music be,without the pioneers of the 60s and 70s? Born in 1959, I was a witness to rather than a member of The Psychodelic 60s.
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