Old snaps make new Beatle film
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Your support makes all the difference.A new Beatles film is to be made from thousands of photographs taken by Linda McCartney.
It will have a soundtrack of Beatles songs that have never been released before, including tapes of a secret jamming session recorded at the London Roundhouse in 1968.
Paul McCartney is helping his wife to edit at least 4,000 pictures of the group, none of which has been shown publicly before, to make a film known as a photofilm.
Linda McCartney took the pictures between her first meeting with the Beatles in 1967 at the time of the release of the Sergeant Pepper album, and the break-up of the group in 1970. She was allowed access when other photographers were barred, and her pictures show the Beatles at work and at ease.
The McCartneys decided to make the Beatles photofilm after Paul created a new film system last year in which he took two reels of Linda's pictures of the Grateful Dead and, using computer technology, made the still photographs move.
It is understood the Beatles film, not expected before the end of 1997, will reveal a rich and intimate photographic archive of the group.
A spokesman for the couple said: "Linda's pictures cover a dark period in the time of the Beatles when photographers were rarely invited in. It was the time leading up to the break-up of the group and covered the making of their last three albums.
"It was a time of the creation and recording of songs like `Hey Jude', `Let It Be' and `The Long And Winding Road'.
"The pictures are not posed but are informal and unguarded, showing the Beatles inside and outside the recording studios. It will be an extraordinary film."
He said that Linda McCartney always had a camera with her and continues to take photographs today. "While most women carry a handbag, she carries a camera," he added.
The announcement of the new film comes on the eve of the opening of an exhibition of Linda McCartney's photography called "Roadworks" at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. She has a parallel show at the International Centre of Photography in New York.
The exhibition is a new collection of pictures shot during nerly 30 years on the road touring with her husband and his bands.
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