The first music video: “Help!” was filmed in black and white. Circulating among video collectors there are over 120 Beatles music videos. “Beatles 1+” claims it will be giving us 50 music videos, but actually only 35 of these, plus four newly created ones are actual videos, the rest are clips from the movies, TV-shows or concerts, which we only now will have to count as official “videos” as well. Also, no “outtakes”, or videos created from the outtakes (like “Rain”, “Paperback Writer”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “I Am The Walrus”, “A Day in the Life” etc, that have appeared recently on a few HMC titles or YouTube are described here. If you can’t find a particular video that you may recall having seen, it was either taken directly from the movies or was a fake. Clips from the movies/concerts or TV shows are included only when they come with the original Apple VTR slate, which means it’s an official video clip, and not a “fan-made compilation”, extracting all songs from the movies to create “Lost Videos” compilations. Only official videos are included here, no clips from TV shows, like “The Music of Lennon & McCartney”, or concerts that have appeared over the years on bootlegs or fan made compilations like “Chronology”, “By the Bushel”, “Unsurpassed Promos”, etc. All the variations over the years, available sometimes from the masters that Intertel/Apple/EMI created, or good to very good copies of them, with original VRT or clock (“w/slate”) and with a few exceptions these are not taken from TV or music channels. If the same version was used to promote different official releases over the years, the changing only of the slate and the closing credits with year of release is also included. Indicated here: Year it was filmed but for the most part the year a clip became an official “music video”. Many appeared through the years until the Anthology project was released, or later. Some videos were filmed a particular year, but remained unreleased at the time. THE BEATLES: The Original EMI, Capitol & Apple promo videos 1965-2015 In the following, I have used descriptions from my own article on the subject from January 2015, and I have also changed Carrera’s chronology. While mostly of importance for video collectors, the list reveals that Apple has been working on promotional videos for a long time, and it also sheds light on an earlier attempt of making a “Beatles 1” compilation in 2011. Miguel Carrera has sent us the following index of The Beatles’ official music videos.
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