The Beatles at Shea Stadium

The Beatles at Shea Stadium
Directed byRobert Precht (uncredited)
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAndrew Laslo
Music byThe Beatles
Release date
  • 1 March 1966 (1966-03-01) (BBC Television)[1]
Running time
50 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour. The documentary was directed and produced by Bob Precht (under the Sullivan Productions banner), NEMS Enterprises (which owns the 1965 copyright), and the Beatles company Subafilms. The project, placed under the direction of manager of production operations M. Clay Adams, was filmed by a large crew led by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo. Fourteen cameras were used to capture the euphoria and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965. The documentary first aired on BBC1 on 1 March 1966.[1] In West Germany, it aired on 2 August that year.[2] It aired in the United States on ABC on 10 January 1967.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b "Today's Programmes". Daily Mail. 1 March 1966. p. 18.
  2. ^ "The Beatles at Shea Stadium". IMDb. 10 January 1967. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Television". The New York Times. 10 January 1967. p. 87.
  4. ^ "Tuesday's TV Programs". Los Angeles Times. 10 January 1967. part IV p.12.