The Beatles’ 1968 animated feature film Yellow Submarine is coming to DVD and Blu-ray Disc June 5, following a limited theatrical re-release beginning May 5.
D&E Entertainment have teamed with EMI and Apple Corps. to digitally restore the original theatrical film. Based on a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it is a fantastic tale about peace, love and hope, propelled by Beatles songs, including “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.”
The film was digitally (in 4K resolution) restored frame-by-frame by hand, since no software could be used to clean up the delicate hand-drawn images. The original theatrical included melding live-action photography with animation, three-dimensional sequences and kaleidoscopic “rotoscoping” where film is traced frame-by-frame into drawings. Due to the technological limits of the time,Submarine took nearly two years, 14 different scripts, 40 animators and 140 technical artists to complete.
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