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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Magical Mystery Tour

Tagged: Film.

UK movie (1967 tvm). Apple. Pr The Beatles. Dir The Beatles. Starring The Beatles. 50 mins. Colour.

A party of people go off by bus on a magical mystery tour. During the day they see or experience various bizarre events – stage-managed by Wizards who live in the sky in a "secret place where the eyes of man have never set foot" – interspersed with several Beatles songs and one from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. State-of-the-art in its time, Magical Mystery Tour now makes a pleasant period piece, with several sections retaining visual interest. The Surrealism makes Magical Mystery Tour an early ancestor of the modern Rock Video; the style of humour foreshadowed that in Monty Python's Flying Circus. [JG]

see also: Yellow Submarine (1968).



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