Beatles Cartoons

[letterman01]

I would love to find a good quality copy of these. Any help would be appreciated!

[MickeyMac]

To the best of my knowledge they never made it on DVD. However there are alternatives.


Try here:

www.thevideobeat.com

[TeeVeeCloset]

[QUOTE=letterman01]I would love to find a good quality copy of these. Any help would be appreciated! [/QUOTE

Have all 39 episodes in perfect quality...email direct to: teeveecloset@aol.com

[tv star collector]

You might try this link:

www.sell.com/22HPLZ

[angiefan]

I want to see this on dvd. -Merry Christmas

[howilu]

Hopefully someday, The Beatles cartoons will be out on DVD. They were pretty funny and who could forget Ringo's distinctive laugh.

[TeeVeeCloset]

As said in my reply above, I have all 39 episodes in perfect beautiful quality, be very wary of buying from professional online sites, the quality vaires and some are incomplete or you get completely ripped-off...

as for The Beatles ever releasing them, they absolutley SHOULD, BUT, probably never will, The Beatles company APPLE bought the rights from King Features about 10 years ago to keep them off TV, etc.

Not all The Beatles were fans of the cartoons for many reasons, one was the cheap animation and the songs were heavily edited.

Keep in mind, also if they were ever released, these were made in the 60's and political correctness is not practiced in these cartoons....asian stereptypes, etc would be probably ommited from any future release.

[tv star collector]

According to Mitchell Axelrod's excellent book, Beatletoons: The Real Story
Behind the Cartoon Beatles, the main objection the Liverpool lads themselves had were the "Americanized" accents that were used (it was
thought that Liverpudlian accents would have been too hard for audiences
to understand). All four Beatles did visit the studios and met American voice
actor Paul Frees (who played John and George) and ABC v.p. Ed Vane. (English actor Lance Percival voiced Paul and Ringo.) Actually, John and George expressed some affection for the cartoons. John is quoted as saying: "You know, I still get a blast out of watching the Beatles cartoons on TV." And George, in a 1999 interview with Billboard magazine, stated: "I always kind of liked them. They were so bad or silly they were good, if you know what I mean (grinning). And I think the passage of time might make them more fun now ..."

Personally, The Beatles was my favorite cartoon show when it first
aired (and it was a huge hit in the TV ratings). I didn't really notice any
heavy editing of the songs. Of course, they had to sometimes be condensed
(or even stretched) to fit the time constraints of the cartoon (which ran only
six or seven minutes, including the dialogue). All in all, I thought the writers
and animators did a pretty good job. They studied closely The Beatles' two
films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" to establish their screen characters.
Even The Beatles themselves loved Peter Sander's caricatures of them in the model sheets for the show. The people producing the show were even
conscious of the band's concert performances. In one of my favorite bits,
in the cartoon "I'm Down," John is even depicted playing the organ with his
elbow in a scene that mirrors his playing at Shea Stadium. Jack Stokes
directed that cartoon, and I thought it was pure genius. Some episodes from
the third (and final) season even included some psychedelic touches fore-
shadowing the feature film "Yellow Submarine" (also produced by Al Brodax).
In fact, the ep "Strawberry Fields" features a scene with John wearing glasses
and George says the line, "it's all in the mind, ya know" (which was later used
in the movie).

[TeeVeeCloset]

Originally Posted by tv star collector

According to Mitchell Axelrod's excellent book, Beatletoons: The Real Story
Behind the Cartoon Beatles, the main objection the Liverpool lads themselves had were the "Americanized" accents that were used (it was
thought that Liverpudlian accents would have been too hard for audiences
to understand). All four Beatles did visit the studios and met American voice
actor Paul Frees (who played John and George) and ABC v.p. Ed Vane. (English actor Lance Percival voiced Paul and Ringo.) Actually, John and George expressed some affection for the cartoons. John is quoted as saying: "You know, I still get a blast out of watching the Beatles cartoons on TV." And George, in a 1999 interview with Billboard magazine, stated: "I always kind of liked them. They were so bad or silly they were good, if you know what I mean (grinning). And I think the passage of time might make them more fun now ..."

Personally, The Beatles was my favorite cartoon show when it first
aired (and it was a huge hit in the TV ratings). I didn't really notice any
heavy editing of the songs. Of course, they had to sometimes be condensed
(or even stretched) to fit the time constraints of the cartoon (which ran only
six or seven minutes, including the dialogue). All in all, I thought the writers
and animators did a pretty good job. They studied closely The Beatles' two
films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" to establish their screen characters.
Even The Beatles themselves loved Peter Sander's caricatures of them in the model sheets for the show. The people producing the show were even
conscious of the band's concert performances. In one of my favorite bits,
in the cartoon "I'm Down," John is even depicted playing the organ with his
elbow in a scene that mirrors his playing at Shea Stadium. Jack Stokes
directed that cartoon, and I thought it was pure genius. Some episodes from
the third (and final) season even included some psychedelic touches fore-
shadowing the feature film "Yellow Submarine" (also produced by Al Brodax).
In fact, the ep "Strawberry Fields" features a scene with John wearing glasses
and George says the line, "it's all in the mind, ya know" (which was later used
in the movie).

Love your knowledge and agree with everything you said, except the song editing, I said in my message, that not all of The fabs liked the cartoons, I knew George did think favorable of them....I also love the cartoons and love the animations, voices, storylines and of course music....but it doesn't change the facts that I stated.....I know Mitch Axelrod and his book is very informative but it is slanted and he never interviewed any Apple person or Fab for his kind of homemade book...again I love the book and own it.....but since I have all the cartoons and watch them regularly....they still have alot of stereotypes as the beatles traveled the world and trust me it is Apple decision to keep them buried, The Beatles including the late wives who represent their husbands have to all agree when releasing any product. lets say if 3 agree and Ringo says "no", the project is scratched.

On a side note, since Disney is remaking "Yellow Submarine" in high tech animation for a 2012 theatrical release, that puts another nail in the coffin for these wonderful but rather primative cartoons to be released.

[MrCleveland]

I never seen the show, but my mom has...when she visited her grandparents! (her mom wouldn't let her watch the show).

[studd911]

hey ive called the qvc network at 1800-345-1515 and requested that the next time they get beatles cd's and the dvd box sets that they should try to get captail records to try to release the beatles animated series which i am sure we all would love to see if captail records owns the series they told me that fans of the beatles call in and request that they mght can do something

[MickeyMac]

I'd say its time for the Beatles cartoon to come to DVD. Everything from the fab four (with the exception of the movie Let It Be) is already out. Now bring on the cartoons.

[TeeVeeCloset]

Originally Posted by studd911

hey ive called the qvc network at 1800-345-1515 and requested that the next time they get beatles cd's and the dvd box sets that they should try to get captail records to try to release the beatles animated series which i am sure we all would love to see if captail records owns the series they told me that fans of the beatles call in and request that they mght can do something

If your are interested in the facts, please read my above facts regarding that The Beatles Apple Company owns the cartoons and why they will most likely never be released......not being negative, just speaking the absolute facts.