The Beatles Are Back

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1812A

Date Released

27 Feb 1964

Date submitted

22 Feb 1964

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Beatles Are Back!. DESCRIPTION: The Beatles returned early Saturday morning, from their American tour, to the screams of thousands of teenagers. Some had waited all night at London Airport to see this famous foursome. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS teenagers waiting with banners. BS same on rooftop of airport building. CU same. LAS pan teenagers on rooftop. GV others on ground. CU same. GV teenagers waiting for arrival of plane. GV plane taxies in. LAS banner Welcome Home, Boys. CU another. CU name on plane Jet Clipper Beatles. GV The Beatles down steps of plane - waving. LAS teenagers. CU one teenager. CU The Beatles on steps of plane. CU teenagers. CU same screaming. CU Beatles waving from steps of plane. GV teenagers break through barrier. CU others screaming. CU another with Beatle hat. CU Beatles across tarmac. CU screaming teenager. GV pan Beatles across tarmac. CU teenagers behind barriers. GV same. GV interior - Beatles seated at microphone in press room (SOF begins). CU zoom in - Beatle George interviewed and pan to Ringo interview. MCU interview. CU George interviewed. CU Paul interviewed and zoom out question passed to Ringo and George (end SOF). MLS girl teenager lifted over barrier. GV The Beatles enter car from press room. GV pan teenagers behind barriers. MS pressmen. MS teenagers on roof of car. GV car drives away.

Keywords

Mass media; Music and dance; Aviation; Performing arts

Locations

London Heathrow Airport

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

87957

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

383

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name: AP Archive
Email: info@aparchive.com
Web: http://www.movietone.com
Phone: +44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held: View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 171 times.