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The Beatles June 1966

Title: Arrival at Tokyo Airport
Type: Police Film
Filming Location: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Filming Date: June 29th 1966
Broadcast Date: October 2022
Country Of Broadcast: Japan
Duration: 00:40 Seconds
Quality: B-
Source: "Paul & Ringo Two Of Us Standing Solo Vol 24" (BedHead Productions)
Other Sources:
Notes: The Beatles touched down in Tokyo at 3am in the morning.
Despite the early hour the airport was full of press from Japan and other countries.
Well prepared, The Beatles emerged from the plane wearing Japanese kimonos.
They were soon driven by limousine to the Tokyo Hilton Hotel to rest before an afternoon press conference.
At least 13 different colour and black and white newsreels & TV news broadcasts captured
their arrival and journey to the hotel with some nice footage turning up in "The Beatles Anthology" TV specials in 1995.
In 2022 a video that the Japanese police had filmed turned up with some great quality footage of the Beatles time in Japan.

Title: "The Beatles Recital From Nippon Budokan Tokyo" - Arrival at Tokyo Airport
Type: TV Special
Filming Location: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Filming Date: June 29th 1966
Broadcast Date: June 29th 1966
Country Of Broadcast: Japan
Duration: 02:30 Minutes
Quality: B
Source: "Five Nights In A Juno Arena 1978" (Hiwax)
Other Sources:
Notes: The Beatles touched down in Tokyo at 3am in the morning.
Despite the early hour the airport was full of press from Japan and other countries.
Well prepared, The Beatles emerged from the plane wearing Japanese kimonos.
They were soon driven by limousine to the Tokyo Hilton Hotel to rest before an afternoon press conference.
NTV (Nippon TV) was allowed to film footage of their arrival for use in the TV special "The Beatles Recital From Nippon Budokan Tokyo".

Title: ABC News - Arrival at Tokyo Airport
Type: TV News
Filming Location: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Filming Date: June 29th 1966
Broadcast Date: June 29th 1966
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 00:48 Seconds
Quality: C
Source: "The Beatles 1966 Vol 4" (FAB Productions)
Other Sources:
Notes: The Beatles touched down in Tokyo at 3am in the morning.
Despite the early hour the airport was full of press from Japan and other countries.
Well prepared, The Beatles emerged from the plane wearing Japanese kimonos.
This is broadcast colour footage from the "ABC News" in America.
The unedited master tape also exists in colour with additional non-Beatles footage of fans and protestors that runs for 2:22 Minutes.

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