![]() ![]() On April 24, Candlewick Press will release a new, compact hardcover edition of the Yellow Submarine picture book, a read-aloud journey for the whole family. The entire process took nearly two years, 14 different scripts, 40 animators and 140 technical artists, ultimately producing a groundbreaking triumph of animation. “The style should vary every five minutes or so to keep the interest going until the end.” These styles included melding live-action photography with animation, three-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic “rotoscoping” where film is traced frame by frame into drawings. “I thought from the very beginning that the film should be a series of interconnected shorts” remembered Edelmann. With art direction and production design by Heinz Edelmann, Yellow Submarine is a classic of animated cinema, featuring the creative work of animation directors Robert Balser and Jack Stokes with a team of animators and technical artists. Inspired by the generation’s new trends in art, the film resides with the dazzling Pop Art styles of Andy Warhol, Martin Sharp, Alan Aldridge and Peter Blake. Yellow Submarine, based upon a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, is a fantastic tale brimming with peace, love, and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.” When the film debuted in 1968, it was instantly recognised as a landmark achievement, revolutionising a genre by integrating the freestyle approach of the era with innovative animation techniques. Lasseter writes in his essay, “As a fan of animation and as a filmmaker, I tip my hat to the artists of Yellow Submarine, whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today.”ĭirected by George Dunning, and written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine began its voyage to the screen when Brodax, who had previously produced nearly 40 episodes of ABC’s animated Beatles TV series, approached The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein with a unique vision for a full-length animated feature. Both Digipak packages will include reproductions of animation cels from the film, collectible stickers, and a 16-page booklet with a new essay by Yellow Submarine aficionado John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios). This was all done by hand, frame by frame.īonus features for the Yellow Submarine DVD and Blu-ray include a short making-of documentary titled “Mod Odyssey” (TRT: 7:30), the film’s original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by producer John Coates and art director Heinz Edelmann, several brief interview clips with others involved with the film, storyboard sequences, 29 original pencil drawings and 30 behind-the-scenes photos. Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Picture Services and Eque Inc. The film’s songtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same date.Ĭurrently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. ![]() 'But when we were doing the renovation we found a clean UK version with the original animation and the original Hey Bulldog song, so we were able to take that and piece and edit back together in the way that was the original director's cut of the movie.London – The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on June 5th in North America. They didn't just pull the song out, they also added some new animation to bridge where they had cut it out. After that the decision was made by United Artists to remove the song. 'I've never discovered the official reason why the Hey Bulldog sequence was cut out of the movie' said Bruce Markoe, 'All I know is that the only country it was orignally seen in was the UK when the film was first realeased theatrically. Here's a quote from Bruce Markoe the UA guy who got it reissued. I'll see if I can find some more specific info on it. The US had a different edit, and according to the restoration team, the whole original negative was covered in dirt and scratches, so it's hard to say what had happened to the "Hey Bulldog" sequence. Click to expand.The DVD is indeed the European theatrical version. ![]()
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