John's been tapping away on the Casino at the beginning of the rooftop concert for 50 years No, but several of us have listened to the 90+ hours of audio and there's a lot of boredom, frustration, indecision, lousy playing, rapping, talking, philosophizing....
Spoiler alert: The Beatles made a mistake starting a new project right after the lengthy White Album. They made another mistake starting it in front of cameras in an odd place at a different time to work. This led to an unpleasant environment at Twickenham. George quits... They talk things out, move to Apple, bring in Billy Preston, and the mood is restored to their normal working environment. They triumphantly record some great songs and perform the fantastic rooftop gig. That has always been the basic plot.
Ill trust yall on that. Havent watched the rooftop in years. Kind of cool to see it in the studio though. Hopefully theyll be something added with the visual that will enhance some of the more dismal areas.
I must admit, I fall into this category... After doing that, I had no problem admitting that I probably had some type of mental illness.
I am really impressed how great it looks ,one wonders why it couldn't look like that when it came out
Does the Sneak Peek video confirm that the Get Back film footage was shot on 16mm when they pan across the film cans? I'm not a film expert, but those cans look thin enough to be 16mm, but could someone who is better acquainted with this verify what we are seeing when they show the film cans on the shelf?
The hours of audio is enough to get a good idea of the environment and the mental attitudes of the participants at the time. Sure there were some happy moments, but there was also boredom, conflict, unhappiness and drudgery. They should have taken some time off.
In 1970, blowing up from 16mm to 35mm was a bigger problem. Digital technology, and the precision that comes with it, has immensely revolutionized this.
The original Let It Be release was a 35mm blow-up from 16mm, cropped to a widescreen format. That's going to cause some problems. When released on home video, and occasional broadcasts on television, that was cropped down again to standard 4:3 ratio and not from original negatives. Subsequent restoration in the early 90s by Ron Furmanek, some of it seen in Anthology along with unused footage, did look pretty good. And use in other projects since then for promotional videos have shown the original quality to have been pretty good. Not sure what the confusion is. Those are the cans of the 16mm original negatives. Seemingly carrying more recent barcoded identification labels. The original film magazines would only hold 15-20 minutes of film, and with using 3-4 cameras covering action, some of it overlapping, that adds up to a lot of film cannisters. 50+ hours
If you didn't at the start, you would have at the end! Been through that listening experience myself, and it is GRUELING!
It's clear they used noise reduction filters to rub off the typical grain of 16 mm film, but the problem is, as others said, that eliminates fine detail too. So yes, the image is too soft. Also, to counteract the effect of that, they turn the sharpness effect way up, causing edge highlight. It can be deceiving, because the image looks very clean, but it's really not natural and lacking in detail.
So is part of the reason for this “sneak peak” a way to gauge response to the image manipulation and adjust accordingly?
That would be great, but I think it's very unlikely. On the other hand, from the content perspective, I'm OK with the "fun" approach. Personally, I don't want a history lesson. We have plenty of information about those sessions. I just want to enjoy watching and listening to The Beatles.
I agree. I want to dig seeing some visuals to the audio I’ve heard and be entertained. And give me that full rooftop performance with different angles.
Well, you can’t be grim all day long, even if you’re having some disagreements. They clearly enjoyed making music together much of the time, but it wasn’t enough to save the group.
I loved the clip and Ringo looking over the edge of the rooftop to see the crowd down below...……..fantastic!
This is the one that hits home for me. After Sgt Pepper it was a good idea to strip it down and they did on the White Album. If they would have taken at least a 6 month break to see where they were it might have worked out better. But I am inclined to feel that if they would have taken a much needed longer break after the White Album they probably wouldn't have bothered to get back together. This was also Paul's thinking, he rushed them back because he was losing his man to Yoko. John, Paul & George's music grew apart and their really wasn't a way. We would not have gotten Abbey Road or Let It Be but those songs would have made their solo albums a heck of a lot better.
