New Documentary on the Beatles' First US Visit Out on 29 November!

[Albert Grove]

I've procured "Turn Left At Greenland" DVD 3, which I believe has the longer version of "What's Happening: The Beatles In The USA." I can up it if needed.

-Z

If you could, please? Thanks in advance.

[MarkRJones1970]

So it does. I have this set and the version of "What's Happening: The Beatles In The USA" is 1 hour 16 mins and 41 seconds long!
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I don't really get a chance to give anything back to this group, mainly because you've all got what I've got, but now's my chance. Here's my copy of DVD 3 of 'Turn Left at Greenland' zipped into one file. I'll leave it there for a few weeks (if you can't download it it'll be because the download quota has been exceeded, just try again later)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zLnZq8 ... sp=sharing

[miggynav]

I just watched Beatles 64 on the Disney channel and almost fell asleep

[MarkRJones1970]

I've just finished watching it and i thought it was great! One bit even brought a tear to my eye. It was much better than what I was expecting.

Makes me wish for a full remastered Washington concert film!

[rons1010]

Thanks for uploading Greenland.
The Turn Left At Greenland DVD has 1:16:43 total footage.
But the What's Happening part is only 0:43:33.

By the way:
I ran into a 1984 Rebroadcast of What's Happening of 0:17:32
I didn't have time yet to figure out of this one has unique footage.

[MarkRJones1970]

Thanks for uploading Greenland.
The Turn Left At Greenland DVD has 1:16:43 total footage.
But the What's Happening part is only 0:43:33.

By the way:
I ran into a 1984 Rebroadcast of What's Happening of 0:17:32
I didn't have time yet to figure out of this one has unique footage.

Oh FIDDLE STICKS!!!!!

[BeatlegPod]

Watched this (enjoyed it but too much spoken head stuff rather than Beatles 1964 footage to my taste) and now going down the rabbit hole of the Maysles, and figured there's no better place to air my thoughts and ask my stupid questions than here with all you experts!

So,

01: What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.

This is the first release. There's 38m 26s of it here:

Apparently the full thing is 81 minutes according to Wikipedia, or 74 minutes according to the Maysles (https://mayslesfilms.com/film/whats-hap ... n-the-usa/) but, as I understand it, the full thing is only rarely shown at private screenings.


02: The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

This is the second, widely available, release, a 1991 re-edit, running 83 minutes, viewable here:

It added 22mins of Ed Sullivan footage, and lost a bunch of Epstein stuff. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatl ... U.S._Visit


03: Additional Footage

I presume that Anthology, Eight Days A Week, and potential other sources have given us other unique pieces of the footage.


04: Beatles '64

And now this, which presumably also gives us some new bits.



I guess my questions are:

1: Is the Internet Archive release all that we have of "What's Happening"?
2: Has anyone previously assembled all the available footage (in the way that the brilliant AdamBound has done for many things)?
3: If so, is that available anywhere as a 'best quality' source?
4: What's new in Beatles '64? Appreciate it might be a bit early to ask that, given it's literally only just dropped!

[fabwill]

Watched this (enjoyed it but too much spoken head stuff rather than Beatles 1964 footage to my taste) and now going down the rabbit hole of the Maysles, and figured there's no better place to air my thoughts and ask my stupid questions than here with all you experts!

So,

01: What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.

This is the first release. There's 38m 26s of it here:

Apparently the full thing is 81 minutes according to Wikipedia, or 74 minutes according to the Maysles (https://mayslesfilms.com/film/whats-hap ... n-the-usa/) but, as I understand it, the full thing is only rarely shown at private screenings.


02: The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

This is the second, widely available, release, a 1991 re-edit, running 83 minutes, viewable here:

It added 22mins of Ed Sullivan footage, and lost a bunch of Epstein stuff. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatl ... U.S._Visit


03: Additional Footage

I presume that Anthology, Eight Days A Week, and potential other sources have given us other unique pieces of the footage.


04: Beatles '64

And now this, which presumably also gives us some new bits.



I guess my questions are:

1: Is the Internet Archive release all that we have of "What's Happening"?
2: Has anyone previously assembled all the available footage (in the way that the brilliant AdamBound has done for many things)?
3: If so, is that available anywhere as a 'best quality' source?
4: What's new in Beatles '64? Appreciate it might be a bit early to ask that, given it's literally only just dropped!

Can I add version 00: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! New York Meets The Beatles, which can be found on disc 2 Filling In The Gaps here hxxps://mega.nz/folder/FggBkCZb#hHozSPt4HjyYZuOSaSRWQw

[fabwill]

01: What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.

This is the first release. There's 38m 26s of it here:

Apparently the full thing is 81 minutes according to Wikipedia, or 74 minutes according to the Maysles (https://mayslesfilms.com/film/whats-hap ... n-the-usa/) but, as I understand it, the full thing is only rarely shown at private screenings.

Are we 100% sure about this 74 minute version. Yes, that link says 74 minutes, but in 2015, it was claimed to be 81 minutes long https://www.maysles.org/archive2015/201 ... rq=beatles

I note that the First US Visit DVD claims to be 81 minutes long...

[AdamBound]

I’ve been thinking of reconstructing the US visit footage…hopefully I’ll get to it soon