#miscfilms

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The Beatles with Dezo Hoffmann at Westminster Cameras, 58 Old Compton Street, London on 3rd April, 1963. They’re watching the 8mm films Dezo took of them on Allerton Golf Course in Liverpool on the 25th March 1963. 

Pics: Dezo Hoffmann.

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Why it's so difficult to find their music videos? Like there's only a few in their YouTube channel. *Sorry any mistake English is not my mother tongue.

Well, the short answer is: Because it’s Apple Corps. 

And the long answer is: For years, Apple Corps (aka The Beatles company) held out against allowing Beatles music on streaming services like Spotify and Google Play, partly, I believe, because of an ongoing dispute with Apple Music, owned by Apple Inc, the computers and technology behemoth, over the right to use the Apple icon as a logo. Then on Christmas Eve 2015, as a (sorta) gift to fans (and themselves, I should think) Beatles music was made available worldwide on most major streaming services, including Apple Music. 

Coinciding with this, most Beatles music disappeared from YouTube (and other video sites). I don’t know for sure, but I suspect it was part of the Beatles/Apple’s agreement with the streaming services. Before then, there was quite a lot of Beatles music and fan videos on YouTube, but they were all taken down for copyright reasons. Since then though, some have crept back on there and the Beatles themselves release a video or two every couple of months or so through their Vevo channel, like this one: 

- which was released 11 hours ago, as I write. 

The cons are there’s not as many videos as we might like, but the pros are that the stuff that is available is high quality and remastered (the colours!) 

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The Beatles recording the Hello, Goodbye promo films at the Saville Theatre, London on 10th November, 1967. 

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Cilla Black appearing with Paul and John on The Music Of Lennon & McCartney, which was filmed on 1st - 2nd November 1965 at Granada TV Centre in Manchester. Funny how Cilla’s dress changes colour in these photos?! I think the top photo may be colourised. 

There’s an interview with Cilla Black somewhere (which I can’t locate currently) where Cilla said she had to walk down the steps here, miming to her song, and when she reaches the bottom, John says something unheard to her. She said he’d told her “I can see what you had for breakfast in that dress”, which if you’re unfamiliar with that northern English turn of phrase, it means I can see your knickers - or something ruder! 

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The Beatles rehearsing and appearing on Sveriges Television music show Drop In, on the 30th October 1963, filmed at Stockholm’s Arenateatern.

Pics: Bo Trenter (Most if not all). 

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The Beatles backstage - or rather, behind the cameras Granada Television studios, Manchester on 14th October 1964, during the filming of Scene At 6.30.

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Ringo photographed at a Butlins holiday camp on the Isle of Wight in late October, 1972, for the film That'll Be The Day. 

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The Beatles watching rushes from Magical Mystery Tour and performing in a short film made specifically for Top Of The Pops. The Musicians’ Union had prevented the broadcast of their current official promo film for Hello, Goodbye due to the fact that it was clearly mimed. The Beatles were filmed by the BBC while they were overseeing the editing Magical Mystery Tour at Norman’s Film Productions, London, on the 21st November 1967, and the footage was then intercut with other film shot without the Beatles’ participation.