Here’s a fascinating story. I enjoy the Parlogram channel every once in a while, probably should watch it more often, but he has a particularly intriguing offering posted earlier today… I only very dimly recall ever seeing this when I would’ve been very little, quite possibly when I was still only aged in single digits. I can’t remember anything about them beyond that, and I could even be misremembering having seen them at all (though I am fairly sure I would’ve done; I at least remember them being a thing from that time). And I really knew nothing about them, they’re not a piece of Beatles media I’ve ever given any thought to. Because they just vanished for decades, they’ve never had a legit re-release unlike (most of) the films the band did, and there’s no sign of them ever getting one… So this look at their making was quite educational; I obviously never knew Norman McLaren had a small part in its history cos he recommended the production team use his old NFB associate George Dunning’s TVC Animations company, which was how the latter then came to helm Yellow Submarine a few years later. At least he succeeded in getting the involvement of the actual band, however briefly, in that film, which is more than the series did…
