The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1966)

Directed by

Robert Precht

Genre

documentary film, concert film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

50 min

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film shows the Beatles performing a 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York. It captures the intense excitement and screaming fans that surrounded the band during their American tour.

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What happens

The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour. The documentary was directed and produced by Bob Precht (under the Sullivan Productions banner), NEMS Enterprises (which owns the 1965 copyright), and the Beatles company Subafilms. The project, placed under the direction of manager of production operations M. Clay Adams, was filmed by a large crew led by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo. Fourteen cameras were used to capture the euphoria and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965. The documentary first aired on BBC1 on 1 March 1966. In West Germany, it aired on 2 August that year. It aired in the United States on ABC on 10 January 1967. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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