The Beatles: Rare & Unseen | 
| Actor: Beatles
Studio: Liberation Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 75097
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: ADAD300137D
UPC: 858423001377
EAN: 0858423001377
ASIN: B0013F60OG
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 04/08/2008
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 Silent home movies set to generic music & interviews. April 24, 2008
Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This DVD program is only 46 minutes long, and appears to be a Cable TV documentary that ran on VH1.
One question: Why is a program made up entirely of vintage 1:33-1 footage produced in 1:85-1 widescreen? It only cuts off the top & bottom of the classic footage we are watching this for. Stupid producers involved in this!
The entire show is made up of rare B&W and Color silent home movies, some shot by the Beatles themselves. Early mute concert footage (of which no other recording is known) and on-the-set of Magical Mystery Tour footage are the highlights. The bulk of this would have been better as bonus material on a Magical Mystery Tour DVD than as the main focus of the DVD.
The home movies are professionally transferred to video and look fairly good, although the films should have been cleaned first.
At times the interview is super-imposed over the rare home movies, often blocking out the Beatle in the shot. This may be frustrating, but don't worry, the footage will be repeated (and repeated, and repeated) without the interview intrusion. Yes, the show is padded by repeating the home movie footage.
Phil Collins is one of the interviewed, but I found nothing new in the interviews and fast-forwarded until new home movie footage appeared.
Oh, yes, John Lennon is interviewed through old film clips, and unfortunately they are very BRIEF clips!
The DVD has bonus interviews that did not make it into the final cut of the short TV special, but most glaringly missing is the complete John Lennon Intervew!
Should you buy this? Only if you must have every known film footage of The Beatles. There are NO SONGS HERE!
 A Must For The Serious Beatles Collector June 12, 2008
MichaelFla (Homestead, Fla)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am an avid Beatles' collector including authenticated autographs of all them save for Lennon. This is to say that I take my Beatles' collecting very seriously, and I being a 1st generation fan I can state that this is one fine collection of unseen footage... Granted it is as good as 16mm film could be at the time, but it is archival, rare and more of what made The Beatles'so much fun and great. This DVD has nothing to be ashamed of and can stand proud in any true fan's collection... The interviews are great and the silent film pieces are almost like having rare 16mm Beatles' reels in one's collection! Get it, yeah, yeah, yeah!
 A Waste Of Time And Money ! May 12, 2008
Roy A. Harper (Largo, Florida United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Unless you are the hardest of hard core Beatle fans, don't bother with this ! In places, is 'elevator', generic Beatles music, and much of the rare footage is played while 'someone' who knew them speaks, with the speaker in the foreground. I only found interesting the interview with the drummer for Trini Lopez, and his association with Ringo. For good Beatles 'stuff', you're better off getting their movies, or the DVD set of them on The Ed Sullivan Show.
GREAT DVD OF THE FAB FOUR- BUY IT April 25, 2008
JULIET SIMONS (USA)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
A lot of trash has been written by young reviewers (who think they are hip but aren't) about this superb DVD, probably because they weren't born when Lennon died, let alone understand why Sgt Pepper is so important: maybe they just don't get it!
The Beatles were and are the most important popular music band of the 20th Century; end of story. Everything that can be said about them, has been. So it takes a great deal of effort to make something new and engaging, with truly new and unseen footage. This DVD manages that very well. There are UNSEEN clips, and there are short interview clips from Lennon. There is the rarest and most expensive footage of The Beatles - rumored to have cost the makers of this DVD half a million Dollars-and we get to see it in all its pristine glory, digitally enhanced. If you simply LOVE The Beatles, you'll love this.
RARE AND UNSEEN is a worthy contribution to their legacy. Who says so? Tony Barrow- the man who guided John, Paul, George and Ringo through the sixties and who wrote the sleeve notes- and he should know. Certainly there are elements in here that you won't see on Anthology- and for any self-respecting Beatles' fan this really has to be in the collection. After all, without it you won't have the earliest footage known, and you won't get to hear how Prime Minister Blair's father-in-law knew John Lennon!
Get past the modern tv skew of this DVD and examine what it actually has in it: The earliest footage of the band, never released in this digitally enhanced form; the only footage left of them in Scotland; the only home movie of them shot by the band in Jersey (in colour); colour film on stage in Paris. Then throw in some of the best interviews ever- with the likes of Phil Collins, Steve Harley and Len Goodman; plus stalwarts like Tony Barrow and Tony Branwell, plus Norman Smith, and you have an entertaining 90 minutes. For real Beatles' fans this is as perfect as it gets.
Of course the program has its faults- but anyone with half a brain will understand that Apple own the rights to everything and therefore it is a minor miracle that this program reached the screen at all- and very good it is too.
Listen out for the brilliant original soundtrack, performed by Stripmusic and The Fore.
Buy it. Buy one for your children. Buy two for your grandchildren. Remember John.
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