Alpha Television Studios, Aston, Birmingham
Taping of the Beatles' final personal appearance on ABC Television's weekly pop series Thank Your Lucky Stars, the show which had launched them on national TV in January 1963 but which was now in steady decline. (It ended on June 25, 1966, by which time i...
Still filming HELP! at Twickenham Film Studios
...The Beatles are still filming "Help" at Twickenham Film Studios, meanwhile.....
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Twickenham Film Studios, St. Margaret's, Twickenham
Sequences filmed included the interior temple sequences (set in the Bahamas section of the film), including a part where John, Paul and George dive through a hollow sacrificial alter and into water (surfacing at the Nassau Beach Hotel)
...Twickenham Film Studios, St. Margaret's, Twickenham
At last, shooting began on home territory, Twickenham Film Studios in the west of London suburb of St. Margaret's, where A Hard Day's Night had been shot at the same time in 1964. Working a similar schedule - something like 8:30 am - 5:30 pm daily...
The Beatles took a break from filming today.
...The Beatles left Obertauern today and flew back to London from Salzburg, arriving in the early evening.
...Although the Beatles stayed behind, the film unit left Obertauern on the 21st, shooting a scene at Radstadt station with the "doubles" and another in a tunnel en route to Salzburg, where they stayed for the night.
...Today was the last day of shooting, with the Beatles and their "doubles" back out on the slopes, miming to part of "Ticket To Ride" and generally being silly. The filming was then completed with an outdoor restaurant sequence involving Ringo and his "double" (not in the finished film).
...Pick-up shots were filmed on a terrace and in the snow today. (It's been a long week)
...Today was another busy day, filming at an Olympic jump location, on the mountainside and in an apres-ski cellar.
...Today the Beatles filmed a sequence at the curling rink and then ended the day by filming by some bushes. It was on this day that the film's title was announced as "Eight Arms To Hold You" and so it would remain for almost another month.
...Today the ski-lift sequence was completed.
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...Beatles and "doubles" filmed today on a ski-lift and on the slopes.
...Shooting began today in front of the hotel, where they filmed a "tobaggan hire" sequence not used in the finished print. They then moved elsewhere in the locality and were filmed falling backwards together into snow. Beatles "doubles" wee also in action the first day, filmed riding on horse-drawn sl...
Two days after returning from the Bahamas, the Beatles and their film crew once again departed England for foreign climes: this time to the snow-capped mountains of Austria. They flew out of London Airport on the 11:00 am flight for Salzburg, where they were greeted by some 4,000 fans and scores of ...
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The Beatles returned to London Airport today after filming on Paradise Island. Surely they rested.
...The Beatles left the Bahamas today and returned to England, arriving at London Airport - the next morning.
...The Beatles returned to Paradise Island for some pick-up shots.
...The Beatles filmed sequences for Help!, their second feature film, on Paradise Island's Cabbage Beach and Rose Island's Victoria Beach.
...The Beatles filmed at what, in the movie, they assumed to be a temple, and what, in real life, they assumed to be a disused army camp. In fact, it was a ramshackle hospital for handicapped children and old people, the state of which disgusted the Beatle.)
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The Beatles filmed at Nassau International Airport, descending airplane steps and madly taking photographs of each other.
...The Beatles filmed sequences at a number of locations on the island and at some cloisters, concentrating in particular on the scenes where John, Paul, and George scour the island calling out "Ringo!"
...The Beatles continue filming on Cabbage Beach and Victoria Beach.
...While the Beatles were filming, this is what the charts looked like the first week of March 1965....
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The Beatles continued filming on Cabbage Beach and Victoria Beach, shooting in particular the final sequence in the film, where Ringo is staked out on the sand.
...The Beatles continued filming and returned the next day to Paradise Island to shoot at a French restaurant called Cafe Martinique. Also, Ringo was filmed with Professor Foot (Victor Spinetti), Algernon (Roy Kinnear) and Ahme (Eleanor Bron) on a schooner morred offshore.
...The Beatles filmed on Cabbage Beach on Paradise Island, returning there the next day to shoot at a French gourmet restaurant called Cafe Martinique.
...The Beatles worked both days of the weekend while in the Bahamas which were spent shooting on Balmoral Island, including a sequence miming to "Another Girl".
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