The Beatles gathered together a group of people for the cast and camera crew, and told them to "Be on the coach on Monday morning." The film was made up along the way. The script of Magical Mystery Tour was very informal. The spectacle ended after Lennon angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the bus. During the filming, an ever greater number of cars followed the hand-lettered bus, hoping to see what its passengers were up to, until a running traffic jam developed. The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made, but the hoped-for "magical" adventures never happened. The visual sequence for the instrumental "Flying" uses aerial footage which was shot on tinted film that had originally been intended for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The final striptease sequence was shot at Paul Raymond's Raymond Revuebar in London, and the sequence for "The Fool on the Hill" was shot around Nice, France. The mystery tour itself was shot throughout the West Country of England, including Devon and Cornwall, although most of the footage was not used in the finished film. RAF Air Training Corps cadets can be seen marching in some scenes, and during "I Am the Walrus" an RAF Avro Shackleton is seen orbiting the group. The exteriors, such as the "I Am the Walrus" sequence, and the marathon race, were filmed on the runways and taxi aprons. Many of the interior scenes, such as the final ballroom sequence for "Your Mother Should Know," were shot in the disused aircraft hangars. Much of the film was shot in and around RAF West Malling, an airfield in Kent that had recently been decommissioned. * Happy Nat The Rubber Man (Nat Jackley) chasing women around the Atlantic Hotel's outdoor swimming pool, a sequence that John himself directed. * John, Paul, George, and Ringo each looking through a telescope, and * A sequence where ice cream, fruit, and lollipops were sold to The Beatles and other coach passengers, Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut include: The following eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes. The core of the film was shot beginning on 11 September and finishing on 25 September. It could have been mine, but I’m not sure whether I want to take the blame for it! We were all in on it - but a lot of the material at that time could have been my idea.” Prior to the movie, McCartney had been creating home movies, and this was a source of inspiration for Magical Mystery Tour.ĭespite the fact that Magical Mystery Tour was ultimately the shortest of all Beatles films, nearly ten hours of footage was shot over a two week period. Television was the obvious answer." Most of the band members have quoted that the initial idea was Paul McCartney’s, although he stated, “I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. In The Beatles Anthology, John Lennon states that "if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. Upon its initial showing, the film was poorly received by critics and audiences. Magical Mystery Tour is an hour-long television film starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) that initially aired on BBC1 on 26 December 1967.
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