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

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…”)

A THREAD on The Beatles' logo. Most people probably recognise it - a very simple design made distinctive by the drop "T" in the middle. pic.twitter.com/B8PWFqeShi

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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

Thanks hd but I realized too late that "yes you can flatulate in the studio" would have been funnier. More concise, still fits the rhyme scheme, more apt. I will take the w though

But would not have recognised the original..

yes you can flatulate in the studio
I'M OLD YOU KNOW!!

Don't let me brown

fart fart Ringo's Silver Butthole

Important new market opportunity for Ringo.

.@StepankaMatto said she made $200,000 by selling her farts in Mason jars. 💨

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For the right price, I'd be down for a jar of Ringo's fart. Maybe $10?

Hush, you - the logical outgrowth of this is Zak Starkey, Jason Bonham, and Simon Collins selling their own mason jars for slightly less, as pale imitations of their fathers, but with subtle hints of stardom.

Thought this doc was amazing!

why has there been no outrage at the audio of “Dehra Dun” being flown in at the start of the reminiscences of India segment? It was even treated to sound as if it came from the Get Back recordings.
(I’m joking. Kind of.)

uh I should have mentioned it was flown in from one of the 90s interviews in Anthology for that to make sense

I can't remember the version that was played in the doc but it definitely dates from the India trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0W1Y6ZDME

Oh for sure (and that's an outfake over Harrison's home demo) but the version with McCartney improvising an accompaniment is from the Anthology interviews at Friar Park - I dunno why there's so much echo on this clip, it must be to avoid copyright detection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXuvN8L5AI

oh - the timecode link got snipped off, go to 7:00 to see it

Timecode always gets snipped here.

what do you mean that's an outfake?

I think it means someone else has added extra instrumentation over the top of the original demo but I listened to the officially released demo on the deluxe ATMP and it sounded similar to me so idk

I'd heard another outfake and didn't know there was one on the ATMP, so that's my bad. Beatles outfakes are rife tho.