Astonishing cache of unseen Beatles photos discovered after 50 years
WORLD EXCLUSIVE Hundreds of previously unseen Beatles photos have been found after languishing in boxes for 50 years alongside forgotten images of other famous names from the 1960s.
The Beatles photos, captured during a shoot at Granada Studios in December 1965, are among around half a million newly discovered images from the worlds of music, sport and entertainment captured by photographers for TV Times magazine.
Only a tiny fraction were published before they were stashed in A4 envelopes inside boxes at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London – and apparently forgotten about ever since.
The collection also boasts never-before-seen photos of legends such as Woody Allen and Peter Sellers.
For each image published there were between two and ten rolls of film, explained David Abbott, who is researching the TV Times archive for the magazine’s publisher, Time Inc UK.
There were 11 rolls of black & white film of The Beatles – plus a roll of colour – taken during a show called The Music of Lennon & McCartney.
Big-name stars of the ’60s who took part in the TV show also included Marianne Faithfull, Lulu and Henry Mancini.
Only one photo of the Fab Four was published at the time. It was a colour image that was used on the cover of TV Times.
By:Chris Cheesman
Source:Amateur Photographer
