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But it still has an irresistible late ’60s spirit all of its own.

In Beatles terms it feels like a ‘Sgt Pepper’ side project with a load of other off-cuts and outside influences merrily chucked into the pot.
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This was the third Beatles movie prepared to fulfill the October 1963 agreement with United Artists. They’re voiced, a bit oddly, by actors and only appear briefly in a larking-about epilogue. Released January 13th, 1969 Yellow Submarine is the title of the first and only full-length animated movie featuring the music of The Beatles. It has flashes of winning silly humour (‘What day is it?’ ‘Sitar-day’), and who can resist the submarine turning into a cigarette lighter to the tune of the Hamlet cigar commercial? The Beatles themselves didn’t give a great deal to the film.
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But when already-existing songs like ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Nowhere Man’, ‘All You Need Is Love’ and ‘Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds’ kick in, the whole thing soars and makes a strange sort of psychedelic sense. Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 animated jukebox musical fantasy comedy adventure film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George Dunning, and produced by United Artists and King Features Syndicate. Yellow Submarine The Beatles (Actor), George Dunning (Director) Rated: G Format: Blu-ray 6,117 ratings IMDb 7.4/10.0 Amazon's Choice for 'yellow submarine blu-ray' -23 2299 List Price: 29.98 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns Audio CD 15.99 Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. The fantastical story is happily all over the place, and the handful of songs written especially for the film aren’t especially memorable. Only The Beatles can help, and so an old sailor pitches up to Liverpool in a Yellow Submarine to collect them and take them on a mission to defeat the Meanies.
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Clearly influenced by Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories, ‘Yellow Submarine’ features a version of the band on the run through a series of hallucinogenic set-pieces involving bad folk called the Blue Meanies who are running riot in the seriously out-there Pepperland. But it’s weirder and scrappier than that, pitched somewhere dreamlike between childhood and adulthood.

Now that the title track has become a nursery-school standard, you half expect this to be a kids’ cartoon. In an era when the genre was dominated by Disney. Beatles, Sgt Pepper, Yellow Submarine, Movie, Ringo, Paul, George, John. This project, as with virtually every studio LP the Fab Four has put out, proved to be a multi-platinum hit across the pond, in addition to being a UK Albums Chart Topper. The animated feature film Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968) was an unusual film for its time.

The Beatles put their name to no fewer than five films in their quick decade together, and while ‘Yellow Submarine’ isn’t the best of them (surely that’s ‘A Hard Day’s Night’?), it’s the only one to feature their ‘Sgt Pepper’ alter-egos in a trippy animated fantasy that feels like a Terry Gilliam-designed album cover come to life. Yellow Submarine is a song that was released on 5 August 1966, through Parlophone (and Capitol), as part of The Beatles’ album that came out that same day called Revolver.
