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TServo2049
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Info Wanted: 'A Hard Day's Night' / 'Help!' - AMC mono broadcasts? (+ Yellow Submarine 80s TV airings)
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8-May-2012, 1:44 PM

The mono mixes of AHDN and Help! showed up in a bootleg set called "The Beatles Filmography." Anybody have this?

As far as Yellow Submarine, the Blu-ray will have the mono mix, but I'm not sure if they just recycled the version from the 1999 DVD with that one part being in stereo. FYI, it switches to stereo right after the end of "All Together Now", and goes back to mono after George says "I think I burnt me finger."

Technically, if you combined the mono mixes of "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "Only a Northern Song" with a mono fold-down of the 1987 LD (which I believe is the original mono rechanneled to stereo during the non-song sections), you'd probably end up with a good simulation of the mono mix. Still, I'd love to hear that section in mono, and I hope it's intact on the Blu-ray.

There are two mono 16mm prints on eBay right now - one is faded, but the other apparently isn't. However, the unfaded print is about to end, and both of them are too expensive for me. I have no idea which cut is represented on either of these prints.'

The faded print is here. Buy It Now for 500 bucks: http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Beatles-YELLOW-SUBMARINE-Complete-Uncut-Feature-Film-Theatrical-/110873662574

The unfaded print is here. I will note that the reserve doesn't seem to be met, so this may end up being relisted: http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXTREMELY-RARE-16mm-film-Yellow-Submarine-1968-Beatles-UNIQUE-OPPORTUNITY-/290704540177?pt=US_Film&hash=item43af574211

Apart from 16mm prints, there is a preservation of a Christmas 1979 BBC broadcast floating around out there. Does anybody have this, either? It used to be online, but disappeared in the Great File Locker Purge...