6 ноября 2015 года выйдет коллекция видео “Beatles 1+”

От Леонардо....

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"I did! Just walked in the door and there it was and skimmed through the videos! A few thoughts:

* First of all, everything looks much, much better than it's ever looked before, including the appearances of some of these videos on the "Anthology" DVDs.

* Paul's memories of shooting the videos is a lot better than Ringo's. Ringo seems to remember "Strawberry Fields" pretty well, and he tells his standard Rooftop/police story for the "Get Back" video, but for the other three videos, he doesn't seem to remember much at all.

* The second disc (I got the Blu Ray deluxe version) tells the source of all the videos if you select "Play All". The first disc doesn't; they have different intros, but you can extrapolate the sources from what's listed on the Disc 2 intros.

* Everything that was shot originally on 35mm is absolutely stunning. Of particular interest is the new "Eight Days a Week" video made up of Shea footage. I want the whole Shea concert now!

* Everything shot originally on 16mm looks anywhere from very good to excellent. The "Let It Be" footage in particular looks really cleaned up and reinforces how great it would be to release the full film on Blu-Ray. They still pale in comparison to the stuff shot on 35mm, but of course, there's a limit to what you can do.

* Many (the majority of?) videos were originally shot on 2" videotape. As a result, this stuff just looks slightly above average. Don't get me wrong, they're still an improvement over any bootleg or any of this stuff on the "Anthology" DVDs. But given the nature of videotape, you can't get any more fidelity than what they got out of them. So they're most decidedly standard definition. You can't really blame the remastering job. There's just not much to work with here.

* "Twist and Shout" has its source given simply as "film" on Disc 2. It's from Scene At 6:30 as is "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on Disc 1. I take it by "film" they really mean "kinescope". These are easily the worst-looking videos here. There's probably no better source, so we're "stuck" with these. (Hey, at least they still exist, unlike many other early UK TV appearances!)

* Didn't find any easter eggs so far.

* The video for "From Me To You" is from the Royal Variety Performance. "She Loves You" is from Drop In. The audio on both are upgrades to anything we've heard before.

* The "Come Together" video is completely new, since the Beatles never made one for it, but the song is on "1" so I guess it had to be included. It's interesting, to say the least. A stylized cartoon, it's kind of neat, but also feels a bit like outtake animation from "Rock Band". And, having never actually owned the "Rock Band" video game, maybe it actually *is* from "Rock Band". I don't really know.

* The three 1990s videos -- "Baby It's You", "Free As A Bird", and "Real Love" -- are showing their age. They're obviously 480p standard def. It's really a shame in retrospect that the "Anthology" documentary and videos were shot on videotape instead of film.

* Speaking of which, if they ever do go back and remaster "Anthology" for Blu-Ray, it would turn out very interesting. Going back and forth between the 90s interviews shot on videotape to something like the "Rain" video shot on 35mm to the kinescope sources that they'd probably have to use for much of their early TV appearances might be too jarring. I've long held out hope that we'll eventually get an "Anthology" remaster, and this set kind of leads me to believe that they've already started on something like that. But it also leads me to believe that once they've demo'd what the end result would look like, Paul/Ringo/Yoko/Olivia might decide against pursuing it in full. :(

Overall, I'm very happy with it. I couldn't really expect any more, given the limitations of the technology at the time these videos were shot. And now they're official. At last!"