{"id":18618,"date":"2026-05-31T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18618"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:02:32","slug":"magical-mystery-tour-1967-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18618","title":{"rendered":"Magical Mystery Tour (1967, The Beatles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of TV music videos with a loose framing story seems more like first-take\/b-roll mess. Is it for kids? Was it influenced by The Monkees? They probably explained briefly in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18313\">Anthology<\/a><\/em> how this turned out so badly, and I already forgot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/mmtour1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>At least each song gets a different visual treatment and some are nice (like the color-filtered mountainscapes over an instrumental song) and not just over-literal imagery (showing policemen in a row for the line &#8220;policemen in a row&#8221;).  And at least during the awful narrative parts (Ringo squabbling with his aunt on a bus) we get nice symphonic versions of early band hits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/mmtour2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/mmtour3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Have they been watching Kenneth Anger?  Paul does his best silly walk. Ridiculous striptease with the Bonzo Dog Band.  I don&#8217;t know if people back then knew who Mal was, but after you&#8217;ve seen <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15227\">Get Back<\/a><\/em> it&#8217;s impossible not to notice him in every scene here.  The anonymous veteran co-director was poor old Bernie Knowles, DP of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/197\">The 39 Steps<\/a><\/em>, now working with DP Richard Starkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of TV music videos with a loose framing story seems more like first-take\/b-roll mess. Is it for kids? Was it influenced by The Monkees? They probably explained briefly in Anthology how this turned out so badly, and I already forgot. At least each song gets a different visual treatment and some are nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,164,2073],"class_list":["post-18618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-beatles","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18646,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}