Next from that huge vault of goodies, with the dropping of the Bond moratorium, will come a hopefully unbroken string of 007 hits!Įvery Beatle fan on Earth is probably already aware of this, but Savant just learned that the Mop Tops did not dub their own animated voices for Yellow Submarine. Argentina?"Ĭome September, MGM Home Video is going to make a lot of Beatle fans happy. And for the better: Who would want to do without the timeless comeback line, ". MGM restorer Lee Nedler says that there are couple of minor changes in dialog lines immediately before the new sequence, but otherwise the two versions are identical. Thad Driscoll's informative Beatle Movies web page includes the odd claim that the English cut had some different individual scenes, and a less sentimental ending, leaving the Chief Blue Meanie unredeemed by the Fab Four's message of Peace & Love. The publicity people did a good job distancing Yellow Submarine's 'spin' from that Saturday-morning 'music video' kiddie show, whose fairly insipid literalizations of the songs Savant remembers well.
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Dunning and producer / co-writer Al Brodax are listed in the same capacities on the Beatles animated TV series from a couple of years previous. Designer Heinz Edelmann and director George Dunning are heard in voiceovers. The color on the short has faded badly, which helps one appreciate the sparkling hues on the feature itself.
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The short has wonderful copy: "It's a truly Mod World where medium and message meld! - The New Art of the Psychedelic sixties!" It also boasts clips of the Beatles posing with their animated counterparts. It's an amusing time capsule that shows some really gear animators who look suspiciously like fashion models. One of the extras pegged for the disc is the contemporary making-of short subject The Beatles Mod Odyssey. Savant remembers Yellow Submarine from screenings where the frequent white screens showed not only film scratches but also flaws in the theater screen! The whites on the new transfer are as clean as a whistle. The animated Pop graphics are bright and colorful, without a trace of film dirt a huge improvement over all earlier releases. MGM/UA's new transfer is everything that could be hoped for. Viewers with even casual memories of the earlier release will have no trouble spotting the new footage when it jumps out at them (and barks, too). (Scoops hooray Spoilers boo.) The scene deals with one of the four-headed dogs the Blue Meanie troops use like bloodhounds. Like the rest of the 'fantabulous, psychedelic' feature, the footage is better seen than described. Hey Bulldog is not only one of the better new songs, its reinstatement smooths out the flow of Yellow Submarine. The best source Savant can find says Hey Bulldog was removed from the film for all non-British exhibition.
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The tune has been an issue since 1968: it was featured on the original soundtrack album even though it went missing in the movie itself. What will be restored, and seen for the first time by American fans, is the entire Beatles song, Hey Bulldog. An HDTV transfer has been done for future use.īut the biggest news is that this release will restore Yellow Submarine to its original English length, which by Savant's measure is three and a half minutes longer (Sources place the English at 90 minutes, and the US at 85). As the movie is a 1:66 original, if MGM follows policy the DVD will not be 16:9. Final format for the DVD has not been decided. The new film mix was done at POP audio in Santa Monica, in Dolby Digital 5.1. Information is that the DVD will be a Special Edition with lots of extras.Ī reportedly stunning remix of the Beatles songs was done in London from the original masters. Both a VHS and a DVD will surface in mid-September.
This fall, MGM Home Entertainment will be reissuing Yellow Submarine worldwide once again. Long-withheld over a legal snag, it's often mentioned (along with the Beatles film Let it Be) as one of the most sought-after and requested titles in Home Video. Although it originally sold for $35.00, rare copies routinely change hands for hundreds.
SPECIAL! Beatles Classic to Repremiere on video AND DVD! ( note: This page dated June 1, 1999)įor the past four years, one of the hottest out-of-print laserdisc titles has been the 1968 animated treat, Yellow Submarine. Reissued and RESTORED at Original Length.
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