The Secret Success of Magical Mystery Tour | Video Essay

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Many thanks to ‪@EisukeYoshino‬ for his wonderful cover of Magical Mystery Tour: • 「Magical Mystery Tour」...
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And many thanks to ‪@robertomarconi7342‬ for his brilliant cover of Blue Jay Way: • The Beatles, Blue Jay ...
00:00 Backlash
01:11 Is it a film?
01:44 What is a variety special?
04:02 Structure
06:12 What's the point?
07:08 Replacing Touring
08:27 Black and white vs colour
09:21 Variety shows with a plot
13:03 How should we view it?
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@mozart9991 5 месяцев назад

For what it is, it is great. It is a collection of Beatles' videos (as we now call them) stuck together with a collection of skits that have no connection and no meaning and no structure beyond the "mystery tour", which it certainly is. The soundtrack is Beatles' music, so that's marvelous. People seemed to be expecting the answers to life, the universe and everything. If it weren't the first of its kind, people might have been a bit more prepared for it. Another point at which The Beatles were ahead of the rest of us, as they still seem to be.

@EnchantedEssays 5 месяцев назад

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

@MoxieMcMurder 10 месяцев назад

100% agree with your statement at the beginning of this video. MMT was and still is, underrated.

@EnchantedEssays 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely! Thanks for watching! ✌️❤️

@user-te3jc3sl7r 6 месяцев назад

It's possible Paul and John were inspired by the Monkees tv show when making the Magical mystery tour. It does have that zany Monkees humour feel to it and the song sequences in the film are reminiscent of their tv show.

@EnchantedEssays 6 месяцев назад

I've never seen any confirmation from them that it inspired MMT, but I know for a fact that they had seen the Monkees by then. Thanks for watching!

@user-te3jc3sl7r 6 месяцев назад

ok, thanks@@EnchantedEssays

@intrepidtraveller6002 5 месяцев назад

MMT is the apogee of their incredible Acid journey of 1967. I feel it coursing through their veins in every step.

@EnchantedEssays 5 месяцев назад

Same here! Thanks for watching! ✌️❤️

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 месяца назад

A real MAGICKAL tour indeed

@DWor- 8 месяцев назад

I love the comparisons to Head and The Monkees in general ^_^ Oh! Wow! I missed the Star Wars Holiday Special comparison! Even more fun!

@EnchantedEssays 8 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@SteveFBS 6 месяцев назад

I've heard that it's very enjoyable if you're on mushrooms. Allegedly.

@EnchantedEssays 6 месяцев назад

I remember reading in the comments section of a clip of the Monkees even trippier movie Head where people where arguing what amount of acid was best to be on whilst watching the film. and one of them was insisting that people should trip whilst watching it on a black and white TV! Thanks for watching!

@LuxOmnia Год назад

Oooooo thank you for the hard work on this. I've always loved this film and so far you've made a fantastic video essay. Worth a lot more than 270 views wtf youtube sucks

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

Aw! Thank you so much! Thankfully, it's doing a lot better than my videos usually do in the first 24 hours!

@markhellman-pn3hn 8 месяцев назад

a singer is NOT an actor !! ... Elvis Presley proved it !! (decades ago)

@EnchantedEssays 8 месяцев назад

Very true! Although there are certainly those who can do both

@matthewhumcke3182 2 месяца назад

this was amazing. thank you

@EnchantedEssays 2 месяца назад

Aw thank you so much! ✌️❤️

@soapybsuds Год назад

my family and school always used to play beatles stuff but 'magical mystery tour' was the first piece of beatles media where i noticed that the beatles existed

@soapybsuds Год назад

omg the slammer 🤣

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

Cool! I think when you get into the Beatles now, you go "Oh! So this was their song!" How old were you when you first saw it?

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

I had the theme tune stuck in my head for about a week after editing this!

@soapybsuds Год назад

@@EnchantedEssays around 6 probably

@soapybsuds Год назад

@@EnchantedEssays the schools i went to were really obsessed with the beatles for some reason

@maplebob23 7 месяцев назад

Paul Lynde had a Halloween special, featuring KISS, that had a bit of a narrative. It’s not too bad for what it is.

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Sounds interesting. I might check it out next year. Thanks for watching!

@friggedickinson7214 7 месяцев назад

Great job, and great to hear someone who (would try) to get this helter skelter of a movie! I like your thought on it and it made me think about it some further and into the terms of being a variety show etc. Still, to me, it is more of a piece of art than a movie - like a visual painting in a museum. Me and my cousins were huge Beatles fans when we were younger and when our families met we always talked about Beatles and their music, and their films. My cousins managed to see Mystery Tour before I did and I got excited to hear about it, and I remember being quite disappointed when the only thing they said was "It's basically about Ringo going on this bus trip with his aunt, and then things happens". It wasn't until I managed to borrow a copy of the movie and watched it myself that I realised that my cousins explanation was the only sensible thing you could say to describe the movie! Perhaps, it would have been an actual movie if it had a proper director behind the camera, but then, I guess it would've lost its charm. I guess. It's a mystery in itself. 😂

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Absolutely! I don't think I could have described it better myself! Thanks for watching!

@CaretakerWanted Год назад

WOW, this was such a good video!!

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

Aw thank you!

@JohnSmith-rk6jy 7 месяцев назад

You're a good video!

@beatxt 11 месяцев назад

What a great thesis. Good observation on the move from b/w to colour tv in UK homes. I dont think my parents got colour (probably from EMI's Radio Rentals!) until some time after maybe 1977!

@EnchantedEssays 11 месяцев назад

Yeah. I think that was around the time my mum got colour TV too. Thanks for watching ✌️❤️

@andyvasquez2247 6 месяцев назад

As gen xer i tend to think of mmt as a bunch of videos with some admittedly goofy interstitials. But i love it! And were else are we going to get a peek at the fabs most pivitol years?❤🍏☮️

@EnchantedEssays 6 месяцев назад

Indeed. If it was directed and written by other people, then it would just be a mess. The fact that this was made by them is what makes it so fascinating. Thanks for watching!

@robertomarconi7342 Год назад

thank you!

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@Urlocallordandsavior 8 месяцев назад

This film has elements of 50s and 60s European cinematography, especially the Fool on the Hill and the Blue Jay Way segments. I think the Beatles were probably one of the greatest English cinematographers of the 60s because of that, probably equal to or even better than their music.

@EnchantedEssays 8 месяцев назад

Ooo I hadn't thought about it like that! I have been meaning to check out more European films from that era. Thanks for watching!

@alancrisp1582 Год назад

🤔 Remember watching this on TV 📺 just once, it was never repeated again in my country New Zealand. Although I very much enjoyed the Beatles first two movies 🎥. This short feature made no sense whatsoever. I guess if i re-watched it today, it would still not make any sense !.

@EnchantedEssays Год назад

Yeah if you go in embracing the fact that it will just be nonsense, then it's a lot more enjoyable. You'd drive yourself mad if you watched it looking for a plot or a point!

@lucasoheyze4597 Год назад

The Monkees did a very similar thing with their 33 and 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee special, which highlights how much better The Beatles did it

@EnchantedEssays 11 месяцев назад

Very true! I don't think I've experienced anything more tedious than that interpretive dance sequence on evolution!

@fletcherrhoden 6 месяцев назад

SNL has always been 90 minutes

@EnchantedEssays 6 месяцев назад

Ah is it! It's not broadcast over here, so until I made my Rutles video, I had only ever seen clips on RU-vid. Looks like it's just over 60 minutes without ads! It's crazy how many ads you guys squeeze in over there! You couldn't get away with a third of the run time being advertising over here! Nice Long and Winding Road cover by the way! Thanks for watching!

@zanemurcha9742 Год назад

I always wondered what would've happened to The Beatles if Brian Epstein were still alive. He was the man who made The Beatles famous, he made them tour all over the world and feature in movies and put out an album every six months. If he hadn't of died, I wonder if stuff like Magical Mystery Tour, Apple Corps and even their break up all together would've happened. That being said he always had their best interests at heart, and usually let them do what they wanted. Like when they had enough of touring he didn't force them to keep doing it.

@EnchantedEssays 11 месяцев назад

I think he would have kept them together longer, as the Allen Klein stuff was the main source of the break up. I think they would have still spent less time together, but I think they would have just spent more time between Beatles albums doing independent projects, like we saw John and George talk about during get back. I think there was a chance that Apple would have lasted longer if he was in charge too (although it may not have started at all with him around). Magical Mystery Tour started filming a few weeks after he died, so I don't think it would have been so different, but maybe he would have tried to spin it differently with the press or something so it wouldn't have had the reputation it had at the time.

@Kieop 10 месяцев назад

@@EnchantedEssays Brian had already greenlit Magical Mystery Tour. The difference would've been that it would've been better planned in terms of accommodations, locations and personnel. I agree with you that he would've tried to spin it differently as well. As for Apple, it grew out of a Brian Epstein tax dodge scheme, but he died before it could be set up and so his brother wanted it to be a boutique and The Beatles wanted it to be "everything".

@EnchantedEssays 10 месяцев назад

@@Kieop Oooo I didn't know that. Thanks for the context!

@sitluxetluxfuit4481 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, that was Paul McCartney not John Lennon on the David frost show

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Err... I know.

@jameschavez6400 Год назад

Not elephant parts mike nesmith?

@EnchantedEssays 11 месяцев назад

I've yet to watch it, but I believe that there's no attempt at a narrative, right?

@joelesser2550 6 месяцев назад

MMT is bad. I've watched multiple times and tried to give it a chance, but it doesn't work. They needed writers and a director. The most startling thing to me is that it came out the same year and Sgt. Pepper. From triumph to failure in the same year.

@JohnSmith-rk6jy 7 месяцев назад

Only Foowls n Orses?

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Gotta love Only Fools

@UnderTheCovers1 7 месяцев назад

James Hargreaves Guitar Decoding Their Wierdiest movie

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Haven't heard of him. I'll check him out. Thanks for watching!

@anthonykimball7463 7 месяцев назад

Appreciate your analysis, but IMO this is one of the weakest things The Beatles ever produced, despite all the revisionist "reappraisals". For me, the only things that prevent MMT from being a complete washout and waste of time are Mandy Weet and "Fool On The Hill".

@EnchantedEssays 7 месяцев назад

Each to their own. Thanks for watching!

@stephenfenwick4309 2 месяца назад

Beatles fan of The Monkees? Lol The Monkees were a manufactured band from 1967-70. The Beatles were fans of The Goons, Spike Milligan etc. They also liked Dadaism. The MMT film wasn't variety but avant garde. Nice review, but full of holes - and lack of knowledge

@EnchantedEssays 2 месяца назад

Stephen, I am well aware of who the Monkees are. That’s how I know that when Michael Nesmith wrote to John Lennon asking if he wanted to meet him, John asked him to stay at his house. They had never met before. If you don’t believe me, Cynthia Lennon wrote about it in her memoirs [I can’t remember which one but I think it was a Twist of Lennon]. You can also see Mike talking to John in the Day of the Life video where they had invited other famous friends to the recording studio like Keith Richards and Donovan. That’s how I know that Micky Dolenz was invited to Paul’s house when he first came to London and was invited to the recording of Good Morning Good Morning. That’s how I know that The Monkees was one of the first TV shows to use the Beatles’ music [Good Morning Good Morning in Mijacogeo]. That’s how I know that the Beatles threw a party in the Monkees' honour when they first came to London. That’s how I came across this clip of Paul McCartney defending the Monkees during an interview in 1967: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ApeApdsL_Gc.htmlsi=_E3v5RcW3zkStNYP That’s how I know that a more accurate timeline would be 1966-1970 or 1966-2018. I know there will be other examples, but it’s been years since my full-blown Monkees hyperfixation [it’s currently “alternative” comedy, who I know were also influenced by the Goons- I knew the Beatles were fans but don’t know enough about them to speak about their influence on MMT]. I became a fan of the show because I read that the Beatles liked them in the first place. Nice comment, Steve, but full of holes - and lack of knowledge