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Topic: Beatles "Hello Goodbye" on Super 8?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 11, 2008 11:24 AM
There are various Beatles related "bootleg" Super 8's out there, but after the bad quality of "Hey Jude", I swore them off, un less they were put out by reputable companies.
There was a print of "Hello Goodbye" on original 35MM film, but the price was outrageously high, so I didn't bother with it. The auction did say that there was some fade to it as well.
If I was to ever find a good copy of "Hello Goodbye" on 35MM again, (and I could afford it) AND with good color ...
I'd zip it off to Derann, as I'm sure that they would release it as a "music video" single!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Brian Hendel
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 902
From: New York, New York
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted April 11, 2008 12:52 PM
Most of the footage John and Yoko shot in the 70's was 16mm -photographed with Bolex cameras. They used super 8 as well, but not as much. Yoko had made lots of avant-garde films before John, and thankfully encouraged recording everything on film. So your story about them almost supporting the Kodak plant may have been true! The super 8 stuff was more personal home movies that, if memory serves, Yoko didn't want over-used in the 1988 Imagine documentary.
If you want to see something really cool, check out the original "Imagine" movie from 1971 which was basically a long promo film for John's album and Yoko's LP "Fly" and you'll see how ahead of their time they were mixing film with music. Yoko's old friend, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, helped make a great high speed super 8 montage of a party they attended with other stars including Warhol, Miles Davis, and others that is outstanding. I want to get Yoko to release that film uncut on DVD on its 40th anniversary in a couple years since there's only an old out-of-print laser disc around that was edited a bit.
And, yes, that old Let It Be clip with the Beatles and Yoko in the studio was put out by Derann. It's a slightly different edit than the way it appeared in the feature film so I'm assuming it was made as a promo clip back when the album came out. It's great Derann released it.
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