I kid you not, just came across this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8&feature=related
So now the question is.. what airfield was that filmed at?
By: Pete Truman - 17th April 2008 at 16:51
Actually part of “Magical Mystery Tour” was filmed in Cornwall, some of it at Watergate Bay. I was at St. Mawgan at the time and the rumour was that the Beatles were invited to the sergeants mess, didn’t happen of course! Whole area was electric for about three days.
Watergate bay being right at the end of the runway and with MOTU, with its T.4 Shacks, on almost continuous circuits it was almost inevitable that one aircraft would get into shot.
I therefore believe that this is the reason that the Shackleton is in this film and can clearly remember seeing it when it was first released.
No way, considering the amount of certain substances consumed by the band at the time, they probably couldn’t remember whether they had ever been to Watergate Bay, I consider myself a bit of a Beatles officianado, my interest in the band started when they were lurking at the Cavern.
I can assure you that this nice big plane just happened to make an impression on the cameraman when he was filming at West Malling, are you seriously suggesting that this was planned, ‘Cool plane man, that looks nice, lets put it on the film’, along with anything else they could think of at the time, thats what the film is all about after all.
By: Peter Mills - 17th April 2008 at 12:54
Actually part of “Magical Mystery Tour” was filmed in Cornwall, some of it at Watergate Bay. I was at St. Mawgan at the time and the rumour was that the Beatles were invited to the sergeants mess, didn’t happen of course! Whole area was electric for about three days.
Watergate bay being right at the end of the runway and with MOTU, with its T.4 Shacks, on almost continuous circuits it was almost inevitable that one aircraft would get into shot.
I therefore believe that this is the reason that the Shackleton is in this film and can clearly remember seeing it when it was first released.
By: Pete Truman - 17th April 2008 at 08:37
Definitely a Shackleton, with a radar bubble under the nose.
Definately not previously unseen, shown many times and featured in the Beatles Anthology.
Apparently it just happened to fly over West Malling when ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ was being filmed, anything to put a bit of life into an otherwise dire film, sorry Paul, well the whole concept was your idea!!
The Mossie CGI vid has been mentioned many times on here, some people are hoping that the Japanese gentleman that made it will be put to work on the ‘Dambusters’.
By: Papa Lima - 17th April 2008 at 06:24
Definitely a Shackleton, with a radar bubble under the nose.
By: Dan Johnson - 17th April 2008 at 05:32
Looks more like a Shackleton in the Beatles vid.
By: ZRX61 - 17th April 2008 at 05:05
oh, missed that comment. Must say they’re improved no end since Tom & Jerry cartoons 🙂
By: wieesso - 17th April 2008 at 05:01
& on the subject of previously unseen vids….. Is this real or CGI?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHqX6NXbXU&feature=related
Look at the Commentary of this clip
‘These are CGI, a couple of years old too. Very nicely done,’
‘It is produced by CGI artist Masaru Tochibayashi aka “Tochy Suppon”.’
By: wieesso - 17th April 2008 at 04:55
‘…but The Beatles filmed some scenes of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ at West Malling in 1967.’
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77421&page=3 #68
By: ZRX61 - 17th April 2008 at 03:22
& on the subject of previously unseen vids….. Is this real or CGI?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hIHqX6NXbXU&feature=related
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