![]() Falling behind as the deadline loomed, Edelmann bused in students from area art schools during night shifts to help color frames. Working with a budget of less than $1 million and a time limit of 11 months, Edelmann and 200 animators worked furiously in cramped London offices. Erich Segal, the author of Love Story, was enlisted for a rewrite at one point, but the secret weapon was uncredited writer Roger McGough, a British poet and playwright who gave the script its Liverpudlian authenticity. The story underwent multiple revisions and continued shifting during filming. Conventional thinking then was that no other company could make a fully animated film without going bankrupt. Uncertain that a non-Disney animated film could succeed, producers of Yellow Submarine at first envisioned a sequence of short films. The idea of making a cartoon film about Yellow Submarine came in 1967, when the studio United Artists were chasing The Beatles for a follow-up to their film Help The Fabs still owed them a movie. I’m not sure why we never did our own voices, but the actors probably did it better anyway.” Each Beatle disliked his own vocal impression in Submarine but approved of the others. ![]() Looking back in 1994, George Harrison said, “It’s a classic film. ![]() In Yellow Submarine, actors provided the voices of the Beatles, who were initially leery of the project after their earlier cartoon experience. The show was a hit, but the Fab Four detested it. ![]() It was the first TV series to animate living people. The Beatles, a 39-episode Saturday morning cartoon series, ran on ABC from 1965 to 1967 (and until 1969 in reruns). Yellow Submarine wasn’t the band’s first foray into animation. ![]()
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