As such, they contributed only a few old songs and four quickly produced numbers, Only a Northern Song, Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, and It's All Too Much. When the producers approached the Beatles about this film, the group, which hated the TV cartoon show of them, agreed to it only as a easy way of completing their movie contract. UP PERISCOPE YELLOW: The Making of The Beatles Yellow Submarine is currently available from most major book store chains and specialty book shops everywhere. The artwork was brilliant in this pre-computer age, hand-drawn and embellished with watercolor inks of experimental, psychedelic colors, a timeless, painstaking exertion of human energy.Īmong the many characters who appear repeatedly throughout UP PERISCOPE YELLOW are The Beatles, George Martin, Brian Epstein, and screenplay co-writer, Erich Segal, fresh off the Yale campus where he was teaching Greek and Latin literature, and soon destined for success in Hollywood with Love Story. Yellow Submarine was a study in firsts - initiating production without a complete storyboard or script, a feature-length film using characters from living role models - and ingenious uses of rotoscoping, photography and layering. In this setting Al Brodax managed to pull off a cinematic feat and produce a timeless celluloid canvas filled with the magic of the sixties and the musical genius of the world's darlings, The Beatles. Two hundred thirty-two souls in all produced a dozen pregnancies, three marriages and one motion picture, revolving in a world sometimes resembling a circus, other times an episode of the Pink Panther. Brodax, blessed with the chutzpah and humor of a man Brooklyn born, in UP PERISCOPE YELLOW takes the reader along for a wild ride, flying without wings or a safety net, with eleven months, one million dollars, two continents, an old Royal typewriter and dozens of inkers, artists, and latent ne'er do wells. Limelight Editions is very pleased to announce publication of the minute-by-minute, drink-by-drink, pop-by-pop, snort-by-snort, behind-the-scenes madcap memoir of the making of this animation classic, by the film's producer and co-writer, Al Brodax: UP PERISCOPE YELLOW: The Making of The Beatles Yellow Submarine. London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, JA screaming crowd 10,000 strong.George, Ringo, Paul and John (and Yoko Ono in her first public appearance with The Beatles).Mick, Keith, Charlie, Bill and Brian, known collectively and infamously as The Rolling Stones.Marianne Faithful.James Margaret and her royal entourage.and Al Broda - in attendance, all, for the world premier of Yellow Submarine. Now armed with songs and love, they rout the Blue Meanies in a battle royal and convert them into peaceful citizens, thereby restoring life, color, music, and love to Pepperland. Disguising themselves as one of the Meanies' giant Apple Bonkers, they infiltrate a compound where all the musical instruments have been stored. After picking up the little Nowhere Man, they are propelled by an enormous sneeze through the sea of holes into occupied Pepperland. Setting off in the yellow submarine, the five adventurers embark on a "modyssey" that carries them through many strange realms: the sea of time, the sea of science, the sea of monsters, the sea of green, and the sea of holes. Upon arriving in Liverpool, Old Fred encounters Ringo and recruits the other Beatles (John, Paul, and George) to help save Pepperland. Old Fred, the conductor of the band, escapes to the Lord Mayor, who sends him for help in a yellow submarine. On a peaceful day in the happy kingdom of Pepperland, a concert by Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is interrupted by an invasion of the Blue Meanies, a horde of music-hating ogres who drain their victims of color with Splotch Guns and render them immobile by pelting them on their heads with huge green apples.
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