How the Beatles Revolutionized Animation

A person would be hard-pressed to argue that the Beatles didn't revolutionize music; even the youngest of today's kids has heard a song by or inspired by the band. (My six-year-old, for her part, is a fan of the movie Across the Universe and her Kindergarten class performed "Yellow Submarine" at last year's graduation.) But people may not realize that John, Paul, George and Ringo also had a part in bringing animation to the foreground of innovation with the making of their feature-length film, Yellow Submarine.
More than a decade before Pixar, the film was not only a technical feat of animation execution but also a seminal work in bringing more attention to animation as a serious art form, both for audiences and for creators.

It's worth watching even if you're not a Beatles fan for the history and great one-offs from the narrator, who calls Yellow Submarine "a sort of open-end Rorschach filled with Joycean puns." Check out the documentary on Brain Pickings. Link

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They weren't involved with the movie because of the animated series. They weren't fans, and doubted the movie until it was completed. They only had time to record a little live action bit at the end, and they didn't even voice their own characters. They were involved through inspiration, but not production.
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Of all the internet meme's that were never funny and need to go away, this tops the list. Even those stupid Chuck Norris one-liners had more redeeming value.
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I agree with Bean. Although I do want to make a website called Canihaveacheeseburger.com. And it would basically be LOLpeople without misspelling and it would be really lame. In protest of lolcats.

And I also think this is a sad way to propose to a woman. Unless the girl actually finds it romantic...then these two are made for eachother.
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I didn't know that was a proposal, that's so cute! And lolcats can be funny if used correctly. Some of the stuff of icanhascheezburger can get redundant fast.
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I didn't realise it was real... I thought it was just something they made up!
That's quite cool!
And I still think lolcats is funny. Some of the old "I has a flavr" stuff and the walrus have gotten old now, but they still usually have quite funny new things.
You can't really take it seriously, and thats why I like it.
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