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In the dark Eleanor Rigby section a host of cut out characters are used – a man smoking a pipe, multiple images of a hand at a window stroking a cat, multiple images of footballers in blue and red kits, two women eating cakes at a window, a man in a cobbled street crouching down to play with a dog, a motorcyclist wearing a multi-coloured helmet shedding a tear, rows of men in coats and umbrellas standing on top of the roofs of terraced houses. It was a style that Terry Gilliam would later make his own in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
How Yellow Submarine Came to be Made
The script underwent many changes and is credited to Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Medelsohn and Eric Segal. Roger McGough, poet and member of the Scaffold, was an uncredited writer on the script – responsible for the plethora of puns that complement the rich visual tapestry of the film.
The idea to set a film around the song Yellow Submarine (and a handful of other tunes) was the starting point, as teams of animators and technical artists worked on seemingly unrelated segments.
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From 1965 to 1967 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], King Features Syndicate (the maker's of Popeye) produced 39 zany cartoons for ABC TV in the USA featuring the Beatles (adopting their Hard Day's Night look, with their speaking parts voiced by actors) who solved all sorts of magical mysteries which were then incorporated into a couple of their songs per episode.
It's All in the Mind
Producer Al Brodax suggested to the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein that the premise of the TV show – a storyline of sorts wrapped around Beatles tunes – could be made into a full-length feature. Epstein agreed on the animation idea, possibly because the Beatles hadn't enjoyed their roles in the film Help! and they owed United Artists another film.
From the outset it was agreed that the film would not follow the traditional look of a Disney feature (Jungle Book was released in 1967 complete with a nod to the Beatles with the mop-top vultures scene). Instead, the film would mine the rich vein of pop art, psychedelic poster art and artist Peter Blake's celebrated visual contribution to the artwork of Sgt Pepper as the blueprint for the film's visual style.
There is a certain irony about Disney producing the CGI remake of Yellow Submarine. The original animation film released in 1968, based on Beatles songs, actually went out of its way to avoid looking like a traditional Disney cartoon. Yellow Submarine is rightly held up as an innovative and inventive full-length animated feature, which tapped into the psychedelic scene that the Beatles had explored during the mid-1960s.
Yellow Submarine constantly assaults the visual senses with splashes of primary colours and a jamboree bag of different animation techniques and styles.
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Brodax assembled a team featuring George Dunning as director [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had worked on the Beatles TV cartoons and had set up an animation studio, TVC based in Dean Street, London and graphic artist and illustrator Heinz Edelmann who was largely responsible for the appearance of the characters and the creation of Pepperland.
The When I'm 64 sequence uses an array of graphic styles (in units of 10) as numbers in units of ten roll from 1 to 64. In the Sea of Science section an oscillator picks out the sound waves from Only a Northern Song as still, multi-coloured, square portrait paintings of the Beatles (their heads, fingers and shoes) flip in and out of graphic patterns on a mainly black background.
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