Yellow Submarine

Overview

This animated fantasy finds The Beatles on board the Yellow Submarine as they travels by water and air. With their faithful captain at the helm, they battle the Blue Meanies, who battle for a world without music and fun. Our heros travel to Pepperland where the power of love helps to defeat their animated adversaries. Eighteen songs are featured in this delightful animated musical. The Fab Four appear in a cameo reprisal at the end of the film. Musical director George Martin provides six of the background tunes while the others are Lennon/McCartney or George Harrison songs. The film was immensely popular with Beatle's fans and successful at the box office, just what was expected with a project with the most popular musical group the world has ever known.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/05/2012
UPC:	5099962145992
Original Release:	1968
Source:	Capitol
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	15,228

Special Features

Featurette "Mod Odyssey"; Original Theatrical Trailer; Three Storyboard sequences - including two not used in the final film; Original pencil drawings; Behind-the-Scenes photos; Interviews with the crew and vocaal talents; Collectible booklet that dives behind-the-scenes of this landmark animated adventure

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Clive	John
Geoffrey Hughes	Paul
Peter Batten	George
Paul Angelis	Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie
Dick Emery	Lord Mayor/Nowhere Man/Max
Lance Percival	Old Fred
The Beatles	Voices,Composer
George Martin	Composer
John Lennon	Composer
George Harrison	Composer

Technical Credits

Al Brodax

Jack Mendelsohn

Lee Minoff

Erich Segal

Al Brodax	Producer,Screenwriter
George Dunning	Director
Charles Jenkins	Special Effects
Jack Mendelsohn	Screenwriter
Lee Minoff	Screenwriter
Alan Kozlowski	Executive Producer
Erich Segal	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

An animated musical-epic, Yellow Submarine is a head movie for the whole family to enjoy. Made as the Beatles were close to breaking up, and agreed upon as a way to get out of the United Artists' three-picture deal after Hard Day's Night and Help!, the bandmembers had minimal input on the film. They didn't even provide voice-overs and only appeared in a short live-action scene. Yet, Yellow Submarine stands as evidence of what the band symbolized to fans by portraying the Beatles saving the world with love and music. Visually, it is a kaleidoscopic lesson in art history, with director George Dunning fusing together pop art, op art, surrealism, and general weirdness. The swirling colors and dazzling movement set the standard for British psychedelia of the time, as well as proving influential for experimental animation styles to come. The story is numbingly simple, interspersed with cultural references and the spontaneous banter common to the other Beatles movies, but that is secondary to the excellent musical score, including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Eleanor Rigby," and "All You Need Is Love." Yellow Submarine remains an animated classic that captures the charming fantasy of the late-'60s psychedelic phenomena.