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The final day of filming for The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night takes place in Ealing, West London, England, UK, Europe.
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Walter Shenson (film producer) : The title is an interesting thing. We kept getting these messages from New York from the advertising and publicity people, what do we call the picture? I said I don't know, 'Beatles Number One.' You know we just couldn't think of something.
And I was having lunch at the studio with John Lennon one day and he used to like to sit and talk to me, you know being older, being from a foreign country and so forth so he was very curious, and I asked him about the boys and everything. He said, have you ever heard Ringo misuse the English language? And I said well like what? And he said when he was a kid he had a lot of surgery done and he was in the hospital a lot and he didn't have too much schooling and he'd come up with these words that made sense but didn't fit. And I said well give me an example.
He said well if we had a recording session that went on all night long, the next day he would say something like, boy that was a hard day's night. We ought to call the film that. And John said yeah, that's a good idea. Well Dick Lester the director was having lunch with the other three Beatles and so John, all walked over and we said, what do you think of this for a title? Said A Hard Day's Night and everybody said it's great. Oh, please don't bother us anymore. That's it. We don't want to think about it anymore.
So I called New York and I spoke to the head of publicity and advertising and I said well here's your title for the film, it's called A Hard Day's Night. Don't answer me know, but you ask the people in your office. Call me tomorrow. And he said, "Well, we talked to the secretaries and the office boys and they all just love it."
?Victor Spinetti (actor) : The set of A Hard Day's Night was chaos because nobody really knew what they'd gotten into. Walter Shenson went to the American movie companies and said, "I'm doing a movie with The Beatles." And they said, "Who?" But The Beatles had a ball. Dick Lester had five cameras running all the time because The Beatles would never stick to the script. You never knew what they were going to say or do. They had to cut so many scenes. Honestly, if you could get all of the outtakes, you'd have another film because they shot enough to make Gone with the Wind.
"They sent each other up all the time. They'd say things like, `Paul, you're the prettiest. You get out of the car first.' As the lunatic director, I'd walk up to them and say, `You're late. You should have been at rehearsals ages ago.' John would say, `You're not a television director. You're Victor Spinetti acting as a television director.' They were always sending people up, and because the cameras kept rolling the whole time, the essence of The Beatles was caught, and that's the magic of the film.
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And I was having lunch at the studio with John Lennon one day and he used to like to sit and talk to me, you know being older, being from a foreign country and so forth so he was very curious, and I asked him about the boys and everything. He said, have you ever heard Ringo misuse the English language? And I said well like what? And he said when he was a kid he had a lot of surgery done and he was in the hospital a lot and he didn't have too much schooling and he'd come up with these words that made sense but didn't fit. And I said well give me an example.
He said well if we had a recording session that went on all night long, the next day he would say something like, boy that was a hard day's night. We ought to call the film that. And John said yeah, that's a good idea. Well Dick Lester the director was having lunch with the other three Beatles and so John, all walked over and we said, what do you think of this for a title? Said A Hard Day's Night and everybody said it's great. Oh, please don't bother us anymore. That's it. We don't want to think about it anymore.
So I called New York and I spoke to the head of publicity and advertising and I said well here's your title for the film, it's called A Hard Day's Night. Don't answer me know, but you ask the people in your office. Call me tomorrow. And he said, "Well, we talked to the secretaries and the office boys and they all just love it."
?Victor Spinetti (actor) : The set of A Hard Day's Night was chaos because nobody really knew what they'd gotten into. Walter Shenson went to the American movie companies and said, "I'm doing a movie with The Beatles." And they said, "Who?" But The Beatles had a ball. Dick Lester had five cameras running all the time because The Beatles would never stick to the script. You never knew what they were going to say or do. They had to cut so many scenes. Honestly, if you could get all of the outtakes, you'd have another film because they shot enough to make Gone with the Wind.
"They sent each other up all the time. They'd say things like, `Paul, you're the prettiest. You get out of the car first.' As the lunatic director, I'd walk up to them and say, `You're late. You should have been at rehearsals ages ago.' John would say, `You're not a television director. You're Victor Spinetti acting as a television director.' They were always sending people up, and because the cameras kept rolling the whole time, the essence of The Beatles was caught, and that's the magic of the film.
(Source : not known)