The Beatles at Shea Stadium

The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fiftyminutelong documentary of The Beatles August 15, 1965, concert at Shea Stadium in New York City, the highlight of the groups 1965 tour. The documentary was produced by Ed Sullivan under his Sullivan Productions, Inc. banner, NEMS Enterprises Ltd. which owns the 1965 copyright, and the Beatles company Subafilms Ltd. The project, placed under the direction of manager of production operations M. Clay Adams, was filmed by a large crew led by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo. Fourteen cameras were used to capture the euphoria and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965. The documentary first aired on BBC1 on March 1, 1966. In West Germany, it aired on August 2, 1966. It aired in the United States on ABC on January 10, 1967.

The film is not a completely accurate representation of the actual concert performance. The songs Shes a Woman and Everybodys Trying to Be My Baby are omitted from the film due to time and likely camera reel change issues audio of the latter song was released on The Beatles Anthology VolumeCD. The audio for the songs that remained went through a heavy postproduction process as well. Some songs were treated with overdubs, or even rerecorded entirely, by The Beatles at Londons CTS Studios on January 5, 1966, to cover audio problems throughout the concert recording. In addition, the audio for Twist and Shout comes from a show at the Hollywood Bowl later on the same tour, and the audio for Act Naturally was simply replaced by the studio version of the song released on the Help LP in Britain and on the Bside of Yesterday in the US, sped up slightly and poorly edited to sync up to the film.Although the film has not been officially available on DVD or VHS except via a 1978 release by Media Home Entertainment that was successfully sued by Northern Songs, it has been widely available on the bootleg circuit for decades, including in a raw audio form that restores the original Shea Stadium audio track. ........

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