Hope I'll be able to see this somehow!
The Arena documentary will be broadcast on Oct. 6 at 21;45 on BBC2, with a 55 minute duration.
Following the documentary will be a showing of the film itself.
Here is the BBC blurb for the showing.
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Duration: 55 minutes
Arena
presents the greatest Beatles story never told, a blockbuster
double-bill. A documentary full of fabulous Beatles archive never shown
before anywhere in the world and the only film conceived and directed by
The Beatles themselves. Fully restored to the highest technical
standard with a remixed soundtrack, Magical Mystery Tour comes out of
the shadows and onto the screen.
Songs you'll never forget, the
film you've never seen and a story that's never been heard. In 1967, in
the wake of the extraordinary impact of Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles made a
film - a dreamlike story of a coach daytrip, a magical mystery tour. It
was seen by a third of the nation, at 8.35pm on BBC1 on Boxing Day - an
expectant public, hoping for some light entertainment for a family
audience.
Magical Mystery Tour was greeted with outrage and derision by middle England and the establishment media.
'How
dare they', they cried, 'They're not film directors, who do they think
they are?' they howled.
Where were the four lovable moptops of Help! and
A Hard Day's Night?
What propelled The Beatles to make this surreal, startling and - at the time - utterly misunderstood film?
Roll up Roll Up for the Mystery Tour!
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