The Eleanor Rigby Segment of The Beatles’ Film Yellow Submarine Released as a Stand Alone Video
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Beatles album Revolver, the original footage from the film Yellow Submarine of their heartbreaking song "Eleanor Rigby" was released as a stand-alone video.
Related Laughing Squid PostsReleased as a double A-side with the song "Yellow Submarine in August 1966, Eleanor Rigby marked a giant leap forward in the way that The Beatles thought about their art"The film is a sequence originally used in the movie Yellow Submarine", released in July 1968. With it's surreal, ground-breaking visuals it both brought a new concept of creating a visual video to accompany a song and also ushered in a new style of animation which helped to inspire Terry Gilliam's animations for the TV comedy series, Monty Python's Flying Circus.