Beatles fanatics come together for screening
The Beatles garner recognition from music listeners around the world. Almost everyone, fans or casual listeners, know the Fab Four.
Through University Union Cinemas, Beatles fans can see the band on the big screen once again with the remastered animated film ‘Yellow Submarine.’ College and university students are the first to see the movie before it gets released to the public. It will play Thursday at 7 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium.
‘Yellow Submarine’ was an out-of-print film recently restored with work done on each individual frame of animation. The film, first released in 1968, is digitally remastered and restored.
The first 100 students in attendance will receive prizes, including Beatles lithograph posters. SU teamed up with EMI/Capitol Records Promotions in Syracuse for the screening. Campus promotions for EMI-Syracuse are the main reason for the movie hitting SU’s theater.
Junior political science major Mika Posecion is the EMI campus representative and program director for WERW, the SU student-run radio station.
Posecion said that WERW collaborated with UU before. The two organizations worked together on producing David Guetta’s ‘Nothing But the Beat’ documentary.
One student from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Sam Kogon, is particularly excited for the event.
‘I’m possibly the biggest Beatles fan in all of Syracuse. I’ve seen Paul three times and caught Ringo’s show a few summers back,’ said Kogan, the junior environmental policy major.
Kogon hosts a WERW radio show called ‘Swing & Sway with Sammy K,’ a Beatles-themed show. He stressed that while he is looking forward to seeing the screening, the movie features very little of the band members.
‘In my opinion, the best part of ‘Yellow Submarine’ is the score written by Beatles producer George Martin,’ Kogan said. ‘His score is the closest thing you get to having a real Beatle in the movie.’
The film takes its title from the track in the band’s album ‘Revolver’ and was the second-to-last film the Beatles worked on. Though they chose the songs for the film, they were not as involved with it as they were in their other films, like ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ Unlike that film, actors voiced the Fab Four’s characters during ‘Yellow Submarine.’
Regardless of how involved the Beatles were during its production, Posecion predicts the psychedelic movie will be a stimulating experience for fans.
Said Posecion: ‘It’s the first time a newly remastered Beatles movie will hit campus, and SU has the opportunity to be the first to screen the movie to the general public.’
Published on April 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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