New Beatles exhibition opens in London

(27 Jun 2023)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 26 June 2023
1. Pull back exterior National Portrait Gallery
2. Close Gallery sign
3. Paul McCartney sign with tilt down to photo
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Cullinan, director, National Portrait Gallery:
"Paul McCartney got in touch and said that he was working on a book on Linda McCartney, his former wife, who was a great photographer. And in going through the archive, he found a thousand photographs that he'd taken, which he thought had all been lost, of the early days of The Beatles. And he basically said, like, would you like to have a look? And do you think this could be interesting? Like, yes."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosie Broadley, curator, National Portrait Gallery:
"So the photographs in the exhibition cover just a three month period. So from November 1963 through to February 1964 which, although that seems like a very short period of time, everything changes for The Beatles. And people have also talked about how everything changes sort of culturally."
6. Zoom in to four headshots of The Beatles
7. Pan of above
8. Wide of photos on display taken in Liverpool and London
9. Tilt from photo of Brian Epstein to John Lennon and Billy J Kramer
10. Pan from photo of The Beatles to photo of Ringo Starr
11. Pull out photo of George Harrison wearing two hats
12. Wide shot display cabinet
13. Close-up program for The Beatles Christmas Show
14. Flyer for Juke Box Jury
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosie Broadley, curator, National Portrait Gallery:
“So we have the kind of British scene and the photographs really reflect that kind of post-war period in Britain. Then they go to Paris and the photographs taken in Paris where they're doing a residency at the Olympia theater are quite different. They're on the street. Some of them are quite tourist photographs of sort of Parisian street scenes, but also photographs of the other Beatles kind of hanging out. And they look really moody and cool.”
16. Pan of room displaying photos from Paris
17. Medium photos on wall
18. Pan from photo of The Beatles to photo Brian Epstein
19. Pan from photo of John Lennon to photo of Ringo Starr
20. Programme for billing with The Beatles at bottom
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosie Broadley, curator, National Portrait Gallery:
“And then the photographs, they show them going to America, and that's when they performed on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' to an audience of 73 million people, which was an unprecedented TV audience. And sort of after that moment, everything changes. And the photographs kind of show the sort of joy and kind of extraordinary reaction that people had to The Beatles when they went to America.”
22. Pan from photograph of John Lennon to photo of Brian Epstein
23. Wide shot Ed Sullivan display with pan
24. Mid shot photos of The Beatles in America
25. Close-up photo of The Beatles in Central Park
26. Wide shot photos of fans at airports
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosie Broadley, curator, National Portrait Gallery:
“Yeah, they are, particularly the ones where they're arriving or departing from an airport where there's thousands of people, you know. 7,000 people waited for them at Miami Airport when they arrived. And yeah, it's insane. And actually, the more you look at those photographs, the more details that you see of how crazy it was, there's a woman carrying a chimpanzee and then people sort of almost falling off the balcony. But this is what Paul McCartney was taking when he's standing at the top of the steps as they kind of descend from an airplane.”
28. Zoom in to photo of people chasing The Beatles' car
35. Wide shot photos taken in Miami

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