I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

Ha!

Complete with James Burton on the Pink Paisley.

that’s lovely.

Love how Tutt digs into that Ringo fill.

enjoyed that video, thanks!

would love to see them then warp time and turn it into "Pink Cadillac," would have mopped the floor with it imo.

Loved the fake-out ending.

That video is kind of addictive.

Mister P...So Addictive

i feel like Elvis is due for the Get Back/Last Dance treatment soon. there has to be enough shockingly great rehearsal tape out there. kids don't know the story.

agree

HBO did a pretty good doc a few years ago

a Get Back studio behind the scenes would be amazing

fewer goofy voices

if i went to see a 'pop' band and they rocked as hard as the Beatles do on Please Please Me thru A Hard Day's Night, i'd feel pretty darn rocked.

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what's up guys. I was keeping up-ish, a day or two behind, with this thread and getting totally enthused, but ran out of time to keep track at at this point.

half an hour in to watching, and going back to FP every single one of you maniacs who posted 1,000,000 words about this without saying how insanely hideous the hyper-cropped and computer-animated picture is

Darin's dog video was cool though

I think there was some discussion way, way back about the kind of creepily smooth, doll-like skin textures.

The cropping is a much bigger issue in my eyes, though I can see that it’s kind of commercially essential for broadcast today. Peter Jackson said that his team had restored the whole 60 hours, not just the eight and a half hours shown, and I assume (hope?) that the restoration was on the full frame.

Jackson told Maron last week that this whole project was an unplanned sidebar from "restoring" his own 16mm features - dnw imo!

Cropping, AI shit doesn't bother me as much when it's actual historic footage 🤷🏻‍♀️

So the audio AI stuff, ie isolating individual instruments/voices, could be used to totally reimagine the art of sampling, no?

the footage of the band in the studio listening back to the rooftop material is beautiful. the part when paul/linda are holding hands and ringo creeps into frame cracked me up.

I thought the footage looked/sounded great. The only distracting thing for me were those moments when the audio and image were way out of sync (especially in the early segments, when they were still in that soundstage).

I’m sure this has been discussed; this is the first time I’ve clicked into this thread (just finished the doc last night).

I'll have to watch again but I think the 'out of sync' moments were basically when audio existed that they wanted to include, but no film to go with it, so they stuck some vaguely suitable footage from the same day up to accompany it rather than just put up a still or whatever.

Right I believe you’re correct

My editor friend calls it 'goldfishing'

It’s wild, because they find footage close enough where it looks like it’s really supposed to fit; and there’s sort of an “uncanny valley” effect when it doesn’t quite match up.

It’s an abused trick in reality shows where they cut in reaction shots from other moments in the footage etc

There were bits and pieces of this that combined with those "uncanny" passages reminded me of those scary AI Beatles albums from a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZu24pddzwk

I love the idea of those people working in the adjacent buildings, who were able to just come up to the roof and watch from the “front row” (but of course there must also be the schlimazel who went to pick up lunch that day: “Hey, guess what you missed…”)

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We called that kind of editing "cheating" when I worked in reality TV. "Get Back" is rife with it - especially prevalent during the first time Billy Preston sits in. All the "WOW! He's taking it/us to another level" looks from the Fabs as they play and Billy's amused reactions to Lennon's endless goofing.

Don't get me wrong -- I really like the film but it is no "straight document".

Yeah, that's one of the oldest tricks in the book - the cinema vérité pioneers like D.A. Pennebaker and the Maysles brothers definitely did the same, though filmmakers are usually careful about what they choose. They're not journalists, but at least with the more established ones, they were wary about doing too much that was not a reflection of reality. For example, I think the great Mama Cass reaction shot in Monterey Pop may have been from the FIRST Janis Joplin performance (the one her manager wouldn't let them film before she convinced him to let her perform the same song again the next night specifically to get it into Pennebaker's film). But there's much veracity in the overall point of showing her reaction.

My faith in editing integrity has been forever shaken by the weekly “one minute to go” montage of the Great British Bake Off.

Supposedly very very few if any contestants on any of these competition shows are ever in any real danger of running out of time.

OH NOES next you'll tell me that some of the contestants on Next Top Model actually were there to "make friends."

Lev Kuleshov to thread!

TIL that when Ringo announces he farted, they actually dubbed in a fart from a different day.

And when they immediately cut to those fans screaming, you're telling me it was actually taken from footage of the band playing live years earlier and NOT their reaction to the smell of the fart from another part of the same room? Gosh.

I'm certain that a 'feelgood' two hour version reflecting the early frustrations, the overcoming, and the rooftop ending, could be made from what we've seen here. The difficulty is going back to 1969 and releasing it as the "Let it be" film. It does show to me that the original movie is a bad edit.

Basically, it's the same plot, overall, as "Hard Day's Night"

TIL that when Ringo announces he farted, they actually dubbed in a fart from a different day.

LMAO. The cries of revisionism when they find out PJ ADR'ed that fart because he didn't think the real one was good enough.

the smell-o-vision insert in the box set isn't even Ringo's fart at all

iirc it was a michael lindsay-fogg

it's amazing how much Get Back showed me that it was all masterminded by Paul McFartney

Something in the wind she moves

these lyrics make a lot more sense now

I've got a feeling, a feeling deep inside
Oh yeah, oh yeah
I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide

PAUL: "So let it in and let it out"
GEORGE: "Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it"

Yes you can flatulate any place you go

Little known fact, "Hey Jude" was really about prairie dogging, not Julian.

Hey, take it over to wikipedia on flatulence

YMP for the win