Looking back now, these films provide a fascinating insight into the phenomenon of Beatlemania.
Thanks to director Richard Lester, however, its probably the bands most artistically successful live-action film.
The bands second film,Help!, is more of a mixed bag.
Critics were less enamoured with this second outing, as were the band themselves.
Help!would prove to be the Beatles last foray into live-action fiction.
Their next effort,Magical Mystery Tour, was instead broadcast on BBC One for Boxing Day 1967.
If you foundHelp!confusing, then prepare to be left confounded and discombobulated.
An abstract dream sequence mid-way through even borrows outtakes from Stanley Kubricks2001: A Space Odyssey.
Audiences and critics were left appropriately incredulous byMagical Mystery Tour.
At first glance, the colourful cartoon looks like it’s a straightforward childrens adventure.
The films visuals, however, were revolutionary.
And so it was that 1970sLet It Became to fruition.
By 1969, the Beatles personal and creative differences had become pronounced.
Fortunately, its not just a procession of misery.
The film ends with the Beatles iconic live performance on the rooftop of Apple Corps.
Despite the studio squabbling which preceded it, this impromptu gig is an electrifying watch.
The objection should be me.
I dont come off well.
With the rest of the catalogue now available on blu-ray, this absence is all the more bothersome.
For the time being, however, it remains in limbo.
They record a culture, and indeed a world, in a state of flux.
And it would be a very different world without them.
