IM launch marathon - day 2

The x265 file of The Tribal Eye crapped out. Making two parts as x264 files. Here's my review to date: Raga

The weird cuts in the title sequence were intentional. Apple Films wanted to see if people were paying attention.

Paul reckons this needs a good restoration. He thinks the mistakes are in the original negative.

The film company was the biggest afterthought of all by this point,

Ravi was an innovator. He brought sophisticated Western counterpoint to Indian music.

He trained in Paris as a classical musician (briefly).

Paul says that Ravi taught him about composition. That's why he devises the way that he does.

Cecile Starr in the credits... that's Paul.

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Concert For Bangladesh

Concert films did exist back then, but this had far more angles than most.

Sync problems, obviously.

Paul's never seen all of it.

'you were inverted/you were perverted too' - that's a reference to inverts. Invert was the 19th century word for queer.

The second drummer was a concession to dilute Ringo's rhythm.

Another one that needs a restoration job.

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Son of Dracula

Ringo: 'the shoot was fun; they ruined it in editing.'

Another one that needs a restoration job.

John was the uncredited director for this one. The Eisensteinian touches in Apple's editing are his brainchild.

Harry Nilsson was a fifth Beatle. George Martin didn't play in the band.

A parody of Hammer horror films. The joke in LA was that they were the Hollywood vampires.

The Beatles probably forgot to shoot coverage for this and the Mystery Tour.

Ringo: 'We'd never heard of coverage. That's Hollywood jargon: we weren't all fluent in that like in your time.'

Ringo said the editing really is shit in the movie; it's not just a bad transfer.

That's why Apple has never remastered it. He's got a 35mm print that he's transferred to digital.

Ringo: 'he was trying to get the atmosphere of a horror film.'

John thought the real horror would be in their minds... very film school.

The Beatles as disruptors is a theme that's emerging in the marathon.

Concert for Bangladesh reveals the secret: records are worth more than movies or gigs.

To them, the records were primary. The films were protopunk experiments in fucking with people.

Live events were things with the potential for social change or political change.

'producing people in a test tube' - told you that the Beatles kids were all IVF!

Paul: 'I don't know why people keeping making fun of Give My Regards To Broad Street: this is way worse.'

Don & Harry saw it in the '80s, on one of those 24/7 junk TV stations in New York.

The film isn't a winner, but the music is quite good.