The Beatles at Shea Stadium

1977
8.2| 0h50m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 06 August 1977 Released
Producted By: Ed Sullivan Productions
Country: United States of America
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The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.

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Director

Robert Precht

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Ed Sullivan Productions

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Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Neil Welch This hour long documentary was made by NEMS Enterprises, Brian Epstein's company, and is by far the best document of a Beatles live show during Beatlemania. Long available only as a "grey" video/DVD, much of it is included in the Beatles Anthology DVD series in beautiful quality.Broadly, the first half hour shows the lead up to The Beatles performance (build up, backstage, support acts etc.) and then, shorn of two numbers, The Beatles' short set (typically less than half an hour for the full set) follows.This was, at the time, the largest audience for a live performance ever, at 55,600. The colour is terrific, the audience is deafening, and the performance is surprisingly good considering how loud the screaming was and how primitive their amplification was (their sound was relayed into the stadium's PA system for added volume, and they had no foldback speakers so they couldn't hear what they were playing).It is worth pointing out that what you hear isn't what the audience heard (not that it could hear anything!), The Beatles visited the studio to create "live sounding" overdubs to sweeten the recorded sound, although for Act Naturally they simply overdubbed the master tape as released on the Help! album.Watch it to see how these four young men reacted to the hysteria of a startling night.
Jim Whittaker The Beatles at Shea Stadium documents the band's groundbreaking concert for 55,600 screaming New York fans on August 15, 1965. Made as a TV special using 12 cameramen, the film gives a comprehensive picture of what the event was like, including: setting up the stage, The Beatles' helicopter flyover (they weren't allowed to land on the baseball field, so they had to land on the World's Fair building and travel to the stadium in an armored truck), some of the opening acts (Brenda Holloway and the King Curtis Band, Sounds Incorporated), tuning up in the dressing room, and most of the actual Beatles show (two songs were edited for time). Introduced onstage by Ed Sullivan (they had taped an appearance on his show the day before), The Beatles ran across the ball field to the stage in their new, Help!-style beige military jackets to play to what was then the largest crowd ever at a rock 'n' roll show. The Beatles give their all to entertain the distant, cheering crowd, occasionally cracking up at the sheer enormity of the event.