“The Beatles [were] gathered around a piano in the middle of the park. They were filming Magical Mystery Tour [sic] and nobody knew they were there. John was running around with his new toy, a cine camera, filming everything, including me. I had only two roles of [colour] film with me, but took what I could. The sole audience was a row of five little girls, Vita Sackville West’s granddaughters, peeping over the wall of her old home in the park. By this time the band had started dressing pretty oddly, especially John, decked out in flapping, colourful pyjama trouser things with a black coat and those glasses. He was bursting with energy, he was so inquiring, that’s what I remember most.”
[Jane Bown, photographer]
Jane Bown, photographer for the Observer newspaper, happened upon the Beatles filming the Strawberry Fields Forever promo film in Knole Park, Sevenoaks on either 30th or 31st January 1967, by chance when she was out walking her dog (not MMT as she says in the quote). She also said John filmed her on his cine camera but the film has never surfaced - John’s film of the making of Strawberry Fields Forever must be out there somewhere!
Jane Bown also took this amazing photos of the Beatles in 1963: George Paul & George Ringo John Paul Paul again
Pics: Jane Bown (Via The Guardian Archive)