![]() ![]() The film is one of the pioneers of rotoscopy, a technique that consists of tracing over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to recreate it in animation. ), Yellow Submarine presents itself, as soon as it is released, as a masterpiece of animation, as much for its colorful universe, its games of shapes and scales, as for its avant-garde technical work. And the magic worked: composed of several short films, each more surreal scenery than the last (the sea of holes, the sea of time, the kaleidoscopic kingdom of Pepperland. In an era when the genre was dominated by Disney. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band came out, they decided to use its psychedelic universe as a backdrop. The animated feature film Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968) was an unusual film for its time. Al Brodax, one of the producers of an animated series already devoted to the group, gathered a creative team to stage the film, directed by Canadian director George Dunning and German illustrator Heinz Edelmann. While none of the members of the group wanted to tackle the project, Epstein found a compromise that would allow them to have as little involvement as possible: an animated film they would only have to record the sound for. Constrained by a commitment between Brian Epstein, their manager, and the distribution company United Artists, they were obliged to provide a third. The group had a lot going on at the time. In 1967, the Beatles had already signed two movies, Help! and A hard day's night. This is the title song to the 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine, featuring cartoon avatars of The Beatles. ![]()
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