That’s one of the reasons the narrative is actually a series of shorts with the style varying every five minutes or so. To meet that deadline, production had to start without a final script or storyboard in place. There would be less than eleven months to make the film on a budget of roughly one million dollars. The Saturday morning BEATLESThe idea for the film had come from producer Brodax who said, “Their manager, Brian Epstein who was a very difficult person had promised that if the television series was successful, I would be allowed to do a short feature.” In June 1967, it was announced that The Beatles’ next film would be an animated feature based on the song Yellow Submarine sung by Ringo Starr on the 1966 Revolver album. However, they did insist on The Beatles appearing briefly live so there was one day of shooting on January 25th, 1968 with them standing in front of a black screen (which was supposed to feature animation but time and budget had run out) at the end of the film. Yellow Submarine was a huge international smash and so UA had no complaints.
Documentation shows that Let It Be was under a separate and later contract. The urban myth is that UA would not accept Yellow Submarine as the third film in their contract and so The Beatles had to produce the live action Let It Be to fulfill their commitment. The film captured for all time the optimistic, successful, fun-loving singing group even as in real life they battled each other, faced business problems with their Apple company and struggled with a new direction for their music, wanting to go off to India for awhile.Įven before Help! (1965) was released, it was announced that the Beatles would do a third film as part of their United Artists’ contract but they kept rejecting all the proposed scripts. The plot had the animated Beatles saving the residents of Pepperland from the evil Blue Meanies with the underlying message that all you needed was love for good to defeat evil. Yellow Submarine was an innovative animated feature film released in 1968 that was produced by King Features Syndicate that had produced the Saturday morning ABC animated series The Beatles under the supervision of Al Brodax and United Artists who had released two previous live action films with the Fab Four.
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