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| Unseen pictures capture outbreak of Beatlemania Posted: 10 Jun 2011 05:22 AM PDT  A fan of former Beatle Paul McCartney holds a poster of The Beatles outside a hotel in Lima on May 8, 2011. — Reuters pic Mitchell, now in his mid-60s, was given a press pass to the Fab Four's first US concert at the Washington Coliseum in 1964, just two days after their breakthrough television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was back later that year to cover their concert in Baltimore, by which time their fame had grown considerably. "I heard the music and I had to be there," said Mitchell, surrounded by a selection of the black-and-white images which had a spontaneity that many later photographs lacked. He is selling the collection through Christie's auctioneers in New York on July 20, and is exhibiting them in London first to raise awareness among potential bidders. "Things were much different back then," he told Reuters on Friday. "There was no big security presence, the press wasn't corralled and I was free to sort of embrace my own ambition." Several of the pictures, valued at between around US$1,000 (RM3,000) to US$6,000 each, are taken from unusual vantage points and focus on particular details. The photograph chosen by Christie's to illustrate the collection shows the four Beatles from behind looking into the bright lights that would follow them wherever they went after the outbreak of "Beatlemania" in 1964. Another was taken from the side of a table behind which the four musicians sat for a press conference, while others focus solely on Ringo Starr's hands or Paul McCartney's feet on a stage littered with sweets thrown by screaming fans. "Squeezed" by housing crisis Mitchell, who was 18 when he took the photographs, said that by the 1970s he knew he had been privileged to be a part of rock and roll history. And when he was caught out by the recent US housing crisis he decided it was time to dust off his archive and sell them. The collection is estimated to be worth around US$100,000. "You cannot forget 8,000 screaming girls," he said of his earliest memories of the Beatles. "It was like the birth of my generation." He said that he tried to do what other photographers at the events were not doing, explaining images' personal style. Cathy Elkies, head of Iconic Sales at Christie's in the United States, said she knew she was on to "something extraordinary" the moment she saw the images via email. "There's a lot of Beatles images out there, no question," she said. "(But) they are amazing, highly intimate, high-access kinds of images ... To find a treasure trove of art — you just don't find that anymore." She said the surviving two Beatles and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison may well come to see the pictures before they go on sale. Elkies added that the relatively modest prices meant buyers could range from serious pop collectors to private individuals wanting a piece of Beatles history. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| ‘Looney Tunes’ classics return to big screen in 3D Posted: 10 Jun 2011 02:40 AM PDT  Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd in 'Daffy's Rhapsody' — AFP pic The three shorts will be released in 3D, starting with Daffy's Rhapsody in theaters November 18 to accompany Happy Feet 2, the sequel of the dancing penguins movie. Two of the new shorts — Daffy's Rhapsody and I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat — will feature the late Mel Blanc, a legendary voiceover actor known as The Man of a Thousand Voices, in various roles, including Daffy Duck. Daffy's Rhapsody follows a persistent Elmer Fudd chasing Daffy Duck during a musical performance that includes his rendition of Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2." Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat star in I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, featuring the classic game of cat and bird with the hit title song performed by Blanc, which sold more than three million copies worldwide when originally released. These new shorts follow the launch of The Looney Tunes Show, a modern cartoon series launched in May on the cable/satellite channel The Cartoon Network, which finds the sarcastic Bugs Bunny and the scatterbrained Daffy Duck living together as unlikely roommates. A feature-length animated adventure film starring the Coyote and Road Runner is also in the works. Previous 3D Looney Tunes cartoons were released with films such as Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and Yogi Bear. Last year, one of the initial Looney Tunes re-released shorts, Coyote Falls, featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards' Best Short Animated Film. Excerpt from the original Daffy's Rhapsody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSv2uf4o_tA. — AFP-Relaxnews Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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