3/26/2023 0 Comments Yellow submarine beatles![]() “I was the financial guy, being responsible for a million dollars. “It was scary stuff, especially for me,” D’Angelo said. The animators went on strike, halting the production for three weeks. That’s when an already chaotic production-with D’Angelo sending money to London in small increments so they didn’t have a million dollars sitting in England-hit yet another potentially disastrous snag. “Six months into production, we were only about 40 percent finished with the film, and I was watching the numbers like crazy because you didn’t know what the hell you were gonna wind up with,” D’Angelo, whose now the chairman of King Features, told me. and London, where 250 animators were working tirelessly inside a warehouse in the SoHo neighborhood to draw 25,000 cells for Yellow Submarine, in which cartoon versions of John, Paul, George, and Ringo save an underwater fantasy world. He spent the year traveling between the U.S. In those days, animated films took years and roughly four times that much money to develop. However, the budget, and the production schedule, was an insane request. The movie needed to be finished in eleven months.Ī year earlier, Al Brodax, then the president of King Features, a company that distributes content (including comic strips) to newspapers, had pitched Beatles manager Brian Epstein on turning their hit song "Yellow Submarine" into a movie. ![]() Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out Travel newsletter for the latest travel news and the best stuff happening across the world.In the summer of 1967, Joe D’Angelo, a young business manager at King Features was given a million dollars and told to figure out how to finance a feature-length film with the most popular band in the world. Pricing for the Yellow Submarine starts from £104 ($126) per night – you can find out more and book on the official Airbnb listing here.ĭid you see this Airbnb in Brazil with its own private waterfall? It’s about half an hour’s drive from the cities of Palmerston North and Wanganui, and about two hours’ drive from Wellington. Photograph: Airbnb Photograph: Airbnb Photograph: Airbnb Photograph: AirbnbĪll this is to be found in a quiet rural river valley near the village of Marton on New Zealand’s northern island. Plus, it’s much bigger than it looks: the Yellow Submarine comfortably houses four guests and still has room for a proper kitchen and bathroom.Ībove all, it’s just a really, really cool bit of craftwork – whether you’re a Beatles fan or not. The whole rental is dotted with references to nautical travel and the Beatles, from its steampunk-themed lounge and a mannequin that kinda looks like John Lennon to stripey sailor décor. Entering through a ramp/jetty, there’s a bulkhead door, portholes and a sort of galley. The Yellow Submarine was never an actual submarine (it was apparently fashioned out of bits of an old grain silo, spa bath and milking shed) but it very much feels like a proper sub. ![]() And here’s another quirky one: a Beatles-themed yellow submarine in New Zealand that you can actually stay in. Airbnb’s full of weird and wonderful rentals, from apartments inside Dutch harbour cranes to forest oases in Brazil with their own private waterfalls.
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