The Beatles - Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Skit 1964 - Best quality (With captions)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2023
- Hello everyone, this is my first non-TUGS/non-TTTE related video, this time it's about The Beatles and their Shakespearean Play Skit from 1964. I combined high quality footage and high quality audio to make this "ultimate" version; you could say, complete with captions.
Hope you enjoy!
CAPTION GUIDES:
White - Introductory narrator
Orange - Wall
Light Blue - Pyramus (Paul McCartney)
Red - Thisby (John Lennon)
Yellow - Lion (Ringo Starr)
Dark Blue - Moonshine (George Harrison)
Grey - Audience members
CREDITS:
High quality footage by Kitsu Beatles: • The Beatles - Shakespe...
High quality audio by OxAeroBabixO: • The Beatles perform Sh...
Captions for this video inspired by ToastyFresh: • The Beatles Perform Sh...
MY CREDITS:
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Wow, this has become my most popular video yet, thank you everyone!
This is probably the closest I've ever seen Shakepeare performed as it would have been done in his day with loads of heckling and banter which would have been especially appropriate for this comedy play within a play.
yes!
😂😂😂😂😊 🎸🎤🎤🎸🎤🎸🥁❤ 🎭
They told George they could not hear him because he was always considered the quiet one. I loved it when he yelled at the top of his lungs back at the hecklers. LMAO!
What does LMAO stand for? 🤔
@@lisastillwagon425 laughing my ass off
"How many times have you watched this? "
"Yes "
How could we not love the Beatles. No band had 4 personalities that meshed so well together. And the music... Thank you God for this wonderful gift.
They were such good sports and fitted together so well. Mick Jagger called them 'the four headed monster'.
This group changed my whole damn life.
2:55 is just the cutest thing.
The greatest, most advanced, most sensible development here is the use of differently coloured subtitles. It is baffling why this brilliant idea was not widely used on foreign films for English speaking audiences.
As for the programme itself - compared to this the Magical Mystery Tour does not look bizarre at all!
Wow even in the end when they are saying “adieu” together, their voices blend perfectly ❤️❤️✨
"This doggie-woggie here is my dog." I love this!
Delicious. And how sweet Paul gave John a cat and John gave the cat the name of Pyramus. Then, John gave Paul a female cat...Paul chose the name of Thisby.
For real ??? :0 that’s so sweet 😭❤️
That AWRR part got me BAWLING ❤😢
They seemed to capture the scene perfectly in all its intended comic ineptitude! Great fun!
I’ve never heard of this! It brings back memories of friends of mine in grad school performing in this play. This scene was particularly funny and I laughed until I couldn’t breathe. I think my sides hurt the next day.
I love the way the Beatles were game for this play within a play. They played it pretty much as Shakespeare intended and had a great time doing so. I was two at the time so it was one more moment of their fun side that I’m now catching up on, thanks to the internet.
"My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones!" Crikey....
Just as excruciatingly hilarious now as it would have been in Shakespeare's day... 😀
Help, I'm addicted.
every time i watch this it gets funnier 💀
Wow, I think I just travelled back to the 60s in a time loop with the Beatles! ❤❤❤
I’ve been a huge Beatles fan since I was 5 years old in 1963 and I’ve never seen this before. Thank you.
I’m 5 years younger than you and I’ve never seen this either. I thought I had seen everything that the Beatles had ever filmed.
Wrong! 😂
I cannot believe that I have never seen this before! I had seen a couple of stills but NEVER SEEN THIS!! Yes, thank you so much for this!!
"George is the quiet beatle"
George: 3:57
Ringo was so adorable with that ‘awwwrr’❤❤❤❤ this is why he’s my favorite beatle ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
theyre so funny i love them so much
This excellent. Well worth a look at the talented Beatles in pantomime.
Thanks so much for this! I've known about it for 40 years and have always wanted to see it!
Great! I had a lot of their material on bootleg videos from over 40 years ago. I'm so glad to see this again.
Thanks for the upload! I haven't seen this since I watched it on TV when I was an 8 year old. I laughed at it all - including the heckling. This got me interested in reading "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I had a little trouble with Shakespearean English, but a teacher helped me out with it, and pointed out the "play within a play", which the Beatles performed so hilariously! To this day, A Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite Shakespeare play.
For those who kept saying Paul's eyes were brown and later became green (after the so called death of Paul in 1966) John clearly mentions his eye color as "green as leeks". That rests that old "Paul is dead" theory.
Yeah, and the fact Paul's voice sounds so similar to the way Paul's voice still sounds now, proves those "theories" wrong.
@@A1-Pacific_SketcherJohn called them freaks in how do you sleep .
Not Quite! The Original James Paul McCartney was 5’11” with Brown Eyes before his death from 09/11/1966 car accident.
The current Paul McCartney #2 is Billy Shear Sheppard;
he’s 6’3” with Green Eyes.
Billy took over Paul’s spot
in The Beatles after Paul’s
death. This is why there were
fights in The Beatles between John and Billy, also between
George and Billy.
You’re blind if you think Paul is 6 foot 3, but you’re obviously stupid so your mistake makes sense.
@@lisastillwagon425 Paul has hazel eyes so in some photos they show up as green and sometimes brown
Ha, Ha, I remember when this came out; right after I saw an old move of MND starring Mickey Rooney as Puck. I read the play later in the 7th grade.
I'm so glad they kept their day job.
This looks really good in colour. Much more watchable! :)
Haha wish this was uploaded earlier in my early beatlemaniac days, amazing quality!
This is great and such a great upload!! Thanks for this: a truly treasure!!🎼🎵🎶♥️
No entiendo nada ,pero solo verles las pintas (esas trencitas de Lennon) y esas caras a punto de soltar a reir😂😂😂😂
Parece que lo estaban pasando bien...❤❤❤❤
Nadie ,ningun grupo o banda(en esos primeros años ) ha echo tantas cosas,y ha *currado* tanto,
Wondering if Paul and Ringo have seen this video recently, and what their memories of this were …. 🤔
Thanks for posting, very entertaining.
Very good, but why was it not included on the Anthology dvd's?
Not sure, I believe the Anthology's focus was more on important and crucial parts of the Beatles' history, and this Skit probably wasn't part of that list.
Beautiful!!!
Thanks for uploading!😍
I wish I could've been there to see this live haha
Thank you for this! Made my day!
I think I remember seeing this when broadcast on TV. Was it the same show when Peter Sellers performed Help as a Shakespearian actor?
Probably not as this was 1964 and Help didn’t come out until 1965. Sellers did do A Hard Day’s Night though a la Shakespeare so it might have been this.
This is "Around The Beatles".
Sellers performed "A Hard Day's Night" as a Shakespearian poet on "The Music of Lennon and McCartney"
Thanks for the info@@cesarmadero05
A "colourised" version of the opening minutes from their 1964 TV special "Around The Beatles", which also featured Cilla Black, Long John Baldry, the Vernons Girls, Millie, P J Proby and Sounds Incorporated. The complete (black and white and unsubtitled) show is also available to view on TH-cam. (at th-cam.com/video/cHZ_6YKG0pA/w-d-xo.html )
Thanks... Long John Baldry also of course being one of the guys on the balcony playing the part of 'audience members' rudely heckling the actors, in true original Shakespearean era style. {He's the tall fair haired one on the left, for anyone unfamiliar.)
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I cannot believe i'm watching the beatles doing this hahahah
Never heard about this. Hilarious! 😂
4:06 sounds like 'fuck you' , bad bad george !
this is great
Anyone notice Trevor Peacock? Jim from Vicar of Dibley?
I also think one of the "hecklers" is Long John Baldry
I knew I recognised him from somewhere! Thanks for pointing it out! "No, no, no, no, no, no, no...yes!"
Completely insane!!!
To be or not to be Beatled o'er the dreadful summit of the cliff, that is the question...
¡Cómo los quiero!
Pmsl!!! Legend!
Who plays the Wall?
The Stones version of Lear didn't go as well...
Long John Baldry doing the heckling?
Yep! 🙂
Shakespeare's characters weren't skilled actors, & he writes the audience as ridiculing them the whole time. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EXACTLY THIS HORRIBLE
Where was this filmed. It looks like an Elizabethan Inn Courtyard
Wembley Park Studios, London, April 28, 1964
Yes, that was the idea, to set it up that way in the studio. Also the reason the TV special was called 'Around the Beatles' ie as 'theatre in the round'.
:D 👍👍
5:01 Was that discord notification
i heard that too i thought i got pinged lol
erm what the sigma
Wait. DOGGY WOGGY!?
uhhhhh 5:01
Excruciating😂
🙅
Why did they do this? 😅
Heh, we can never really know. I would assume that they decided they could do anything because of how popular they were, and they'd have a laugh about doing this!
Naturally funny men there's been no who do this without getting stupid or weird
Oh I just hate hecklers. The Beatles were great sports about everything, though.