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The Beatles January 1967

Title: Strawberry Fields Forever
Type: Promo Video
Filming Location: Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Filming Date: January 30th-31st 1967
Broadcast Date: UK: February 16th 1967 ("Top of The Pops"); US: Feb 25th 1967 ("Hollywood Palace")
Country Of Broadcast: UK
Duration: 04:07 Minutes (Original 1967 version); 04:18 Minutes (1+ version)
Quality: A
Source: "Beatles 1+" (DVD & Blu Ray Non 6th 2015)
Other Sources:
Notes: Over two days, at the very end of January 1967, The Beatles filmed a promotional film for their new single "Strawberry Fields Forever".
It was filmed at "Knole Park" and it was produced by Tony Bramwell and directed by Peter Goldmann from Sweden.
It premiered on UK television on "Top of The Pops" on February 16 and in America on "The Hollywood Palace" (in colour)
on February 25 and then on "American Bandstand" on March 11 (strangely in black and white).
Only average copies in both colour and black and white were broadcast on TV throughout the 80's and 90's some of which subsequentially turned up on video bootlegs.
"The Beatles Anthology" TV broadcast showed a remastered 2:14 minute re-edit of the promo containing some previously unseen outtake
footage and the DVD version, released in 2003, had another different re-edit which also included some home movie footage taken during the filming.
Finally in November 2015 a beautiful fully restored re-edit was issued on the "Beatles 1+" DVD & Blu-ray.

Title: Filming "Strawberry Fields Forever"
Type: Home Movie
Filming Location: Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Filming Date: January 30th-31st 1967
Broadcast Date: March 2003
Country Of Broadcast: UK
Duration: 00:20 Seconds
Quality: A
Source: "The Beatles Anthology" (DVD 2003)
Other Sources:
Notes: Home movie footage of The Beatles filming their promotional film of "Strawberry Fields Forever"
(Mostly shot by John) was shown only in a re-edited version of the promo on the DVD version of "The Beatles Anthology" in March 2003.
The TV broadcasts did not feature this footage.

Title: Strawberry Fields Forever Outtakes
Type: Promo Video
Filming Location: Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Filming Date: January 30th-31st 1967
Broadcast Date: January 30th-31st 1967
Country Of Broadcast: UK/USA
Duration: 2:14 Mins (Anthology TV edit); 3:08 Mins (Anthology DVD edit); 09:26 Mins (Youtube); 11:14 Mins (download); 12:15 Mins (unbootlegged)
Quality: A/A- (Anthology); B (Average) (Upload/Youtube)
Source: "The Beatles Rarities 1966-1967" (BA Productions)
Other Sources: "Paul & Ringo Two Of Us Standing Solo Vol 17" (BedHead Productions)
Notes: Colour outtakes from the filming of the promo for "Strawberry Fields Forever" first appeared in the John Lennon film from 1988 "Imagine: John Lennon".
Further outtakes were shown in TV broadcasts of "The Beatles Anthology" in 1995 in a 2:14 minute newly remastered edit.
The 2003 DVD edition of "The Beatles Anthology" did yet another re-edit (3:08 mins) that incorporated some home movie footage shot during the filming.
Afterwards "Revolver TV" uploaded further outtakes (4:40 mins) onto Youtube for a short period.
Since then an ambitious fan has put together all of the known outtakes and home movie footage and made them available for download. These now total 11:14 mins in length!
An edited version (due to copyright concerns) has been uploaded onto Youtube which comes to 9:26 mins in length.
The complete 12:15 minutes of footage remains in the hands of collectors.