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The Beatles July 1963

Title: Weston-Super-Mare
Type: Home Movie
Filming Location: Various Locations, Weston-Super-Mare, England
Filming Date: July 22nd - 27th 1963
Broadcast Date: Dec 3rd 1982 (UK); March 31st 1983 (Australia)
Country Of Broadcast: UK
Duration: 7:28 Minutes
Quality: C-
Source: "The Beatles Back To The Past 1962-1963" (BA Productions/BedHead Productions)
Other Sources: "The Beatles 1963 Vol 1 Off The Beatles Track" (FAB Productions)
Notes: More Dezo Hoffmann home movie footage. This time they were at Weston Super Mare for six days of shows.
The Beatles are seen clowning around at the local beach and sun-bathing on the hotel`s patio.
They are also seen racing go-carts around a track and posing for a Dezo photo shoot for Typhoo Tea.
There is also footage of Gerry & The Pacemakers (who were also on the bill).
Some of this footage was first seen in the early 80`s when Dezo was out and about all over the World promoting his book of photographs.
The footage got its UK debut on "The Tube" on December 3, 1982 and in Australia some of the footage
was shown during an interview with Dezo on "The Don Lane Show" on March 31, 1983.
Some short bits of the footage were cleaned up considerably and shown in "The Beatles Anthology".
The footage consists of:
0:00 - 2:34: Gerry & The Pacemakers at the beach (2:34)
2:34 - 3:39: Beatles sun baking at the hotel (1:05)
3:39 - 3:52: Unknown water-skiing (0:13)
3:52 - 6:14: Beatles at the beach (2:22)
6:14 - 7:36: Beatles go-karting (1:22)
7:36 - 7:46: Ringo driving back to hotel (0:10)
7:46 - 7:54: Scenery non Beatles (0:08)
7:54 - 8:57: Beatles Typhoo Tea photo session (1:03)
8:57 - 9:13: Non Beatle footage including poster for their concert (0:16)

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