Falling behind as the deadline loomed, Edelmann bused in students from area art schools during night shifts to help color frames. Brodax asked Campbell, and his colleague Duane Crowther, if they could animate many of the connecting sequences in the movie. Working with a budget of less than $1 million and a time limit of 11 months, Edelmann and 200 animators worked furiously in cramped London offices. Yellow Submarine - In 1968, Al Brodax once again contracted Campbell from London, where he was producing The Beatles' feature length animated motion picture, Yellow Submarine. Erich Segal, the author of Love Story, was enlisted for a rewrite at one point, but the secret weapon was uncredited writer Roger McGough, a British poet and playwright who gave the script its Liverpudlian authenticity. The story underwent multiple revisions and continued shifting during filming. Conventional thinking then was that no other company could make a fully animated film without going bankrupt. Yellow Submarine was an innovative animated feature film released in 1968 that was produced by King Features Syndicate that had produced the Saturday morning ABC animated series The Beatles under the supervision of Al Brodax and United Artists who had released two previous live action films with the Fab Four. Uncertain that a non-Disney animated film could succeed, producers of Yellow Submarine at first envisioned a sequence of short films. I’m not sure why we never did our own voices, but the actors probably did it better anyway.” Each Beatle disliked his own vocal impression in Submarine but approved of the others. Looking back in 1994, George Harrison said, “It’s a classic film. In Yellow Submarine, actors provided the voices of the Beatles, who were initially leery of the project after their earlier cartoon experience. The show was a hit, but the Fab Four detested it. It was the first TV series to animate living people. The Beatles, a 39-episode Saturday morning cartoon series, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967 (and until 1969 in reruns). Yellow Submarine wasn’t the band’s first foray into animation. In 1968, feature-length animation that played in movie theaters basically meant one thing Walt Disney and it seemed appropriate, and inevitable, that Yellow Submarine should be the.
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