Beatles in India 1968 Home Movies Reconstruction

[AdamBound]

Hi everyone,

Recently I made a edit which assembles all of the available footage of the color home movies shot by the Beatles in Rishikesh from February thru March 1968. A lot of great, high quality footage appeared in Get Back which was either brand new or a significant upgrade from what we had before.

I have taken the footage which appears there and added it alongside the clips which have appeared in Anthology 7, the Anthology 7 rough cut, The Beatles On Record, various news broadcasts, the special feature for While My Guitar Gently Weeps in the White Album 50th set, the Real Love promo video, as well as footage from Paul's 1989-1990 concert pre-show film.

I have also attempted to assemble this into a rough sensible order, but of course it is hard to tell what the true order is. I have also corrected the speed of each clip to the best of my ability, as many of the clips which appear in Anthology are slowed down significantly. Also I know there are lots of crossfades, but I just wanted to get every frame out of each clip.

I hope you all enjoy!

[Nihonjin]

Absolutely fantastic work! I had forgotten that there was so much footage available. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[ksantus]

Alright now! Very nicely done AdamBound. Thanks for that.

[I Am The Walrus]

Thank you very much Adam.

[veejay]

This is excellent. Thank you Adam.

[beatlesondvd]

Great, thanks! I see some duplicates, but fantastic effort.

The shot at 0:57 is repeated at 1:05
The shot at 4:54 of Paul and Mal was probably filmed on the day of John's helicopter flight. Ditto 6:24 (John is holding an 8mm camera).
Are the shots of Paul playing the guitar reversed, or was he playing as if he were right-handed?
I believe the shot at 8:57 is from 1 March, the day Ringo left Rishikesh and the rest all went to the banks of the Ganges for the acoustic jam session that was filmed for Italian television.

[AdamBound]

Great, thanks! I see some duplicates, but fantastic effort.

The shot at 0:57 is repeated at 1:05
The shot at 4:54 of Paul and Mal was probably filmed on the day of John's helicopter flight. Ditto 6:24 (John is holding an 8mm camera).
Are the shots of Paul playing the guitar reversed, or was he playing as if he were right-handed?
I believe the shot at 8:57 is from 1 March, the day Ringo left Rishikesh and the rest all went to the banks of the Ganges for the acoustic jam session that was filmed for Italian television.

There are some duplicate frames throughout but that was just because of the heavy crossfading with the Anthology clips - I didn’t want to chop off any frame of each clip even if it repeats some frames of other clips. Good observations!

[Alessandro Rocchi]

Thank you very much, AdamBound!

[mcp]

Wow!

[20YearsAgo]

Nice work-- thank you for sharing this!