John, Paul, George, and Ringo each looking through a telescope, and.A sequence where ice cream, fruit, and lollipops were sold to The Beatles and other coach passengers,.Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut include: The following eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes. The core of the film was shot beginning on 11 September and finishing on 25 September. Magical Mystery Tour was ultimately the shortest of all Beatles films, though nearly ten hours of footage was shot over a two week period. The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches, and situations, which McCartney called the "Scrupt". It could have been mine, but I’m not sure whether I want to take the blame for it! We were all in on it - but a lot of the material at that time could have been my idea.” Prior to the movie, McCartney had been creating home movies, and this was a source of inspiration for Magical Mystery Tour. Television was the obvious answer." Most of the band members have quoted that the initial idea was Paul McCartney’s, although he stated, “I’m not sure whose idea Magical Mystery Tour was. In The Beatles Anthology, John Lennon states that "if stage shows were to be out, we wanted something to replace them. The film is punctuated by musical interludes, which include The Beatles performing " I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing " Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes's " Death Cab For Cutie", sung by Stanshall. (Paul appears briefly as a desk sergeant, on whose desk rests a sign reading "I WAS you".) The film continues with the men of the tour group watching a strip show and ends with an old-style dance scene, to Your Mother Should Know. There is a strange scene where the group walks through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office and are greeted by the army drill sergeant ( Victor Spinetti). The entire tour group also crawls into a tiny tent in a field, inside which is a projection theatre. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each tour group member employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people have a long bike they pedal, while Ringo ends up beating them all with the bus). During the tour, Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays eccentric and disturbing behaviour. Other group members on the bus include the tour director Jolly Jimmy Johnson ( Derek Royle), the tour hostess Miss Wendy Winters (Mandy Weet), conductor Buster Bloodvessel ( Ivor Cutler), and the other Beatles.ĭuring the course of the tour, "strange things begin to happen" at the whim of "four or five magicians", four of whom are played by The Beatles themselves and the fifth by long-time road manager Mal Evans.ĭuring the journey, Ringo and his Auntie Jessie argue considerably. Richard Starkey ( Ringo Starr) and his recently widowed Auntie Jessie ( Jessie Robins). The situation is that of a group of people on a British charabanc bus (in a Bedford VAL Panorama) tour, focusing mostly on Mr.
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