Completing Beatles 1

The first music video: “Help!” was filmed in black and white but not included on Beatles 1.

Currently circulating among Beatles video collectors is a collection called “18+”, which has been made to accompany the official Beatles 1+ release, compiling some of the videos missing from the official release, including B-sides and alternate versions. Here are the videos featured in this compilation:

I’ll Get You – from Ready Steady Go

This Boy – from Late Scene Extra

You Can’t Do That – from Ready Steady Go

Things We Said Today – from the Hollywood Bowl

She’s A Woman – from Ready Steady Go

Help! – the Twickenham clip filmed by Richard Lester, with original audio

I’m Down – from Blackpool Night Out

We Can Work It Out – from The Music Of Lennon & McCartney

We Can Work It Out – Intertel “version 1”

Paperback Writer – Intertel take 2

Paperback Writer – Intertel take 3

Paperback Writer – Intertel take 4

Rain – Intertel take 1 (edited with take 2 on 1+)

Rain – Intertel take 2

Rain – Intertel colour “Ed Sullivan” version

I Am The Walrus – from Magical Mystery Tour

Revolution – Intertel edit of takes 1 and 2 (with take 1 audio)

Revolution – Intertel take 2 (interspersed with take 1 on Beatles 1+)

Hey Jude – Intertel take 3 “David Frost” version (interspersed with take 2 on Beatles 1+)

Omissions: “Day Tripper”, “Paperback Writer” and “Revolution” takes 1 are not circulating, neither is the complete take 2 of “Hey Jude”. Takes 1 and 2 of “Hey Jude” were edited together for The Smothers Brothers comedy hour – other snippets can be seen in Anthology and on Beatles 1+. Take 2 is recognisable as the one where the guy in blue is on the redhead’s left. Of course there are other clips but they were not number ones and so don’t conform to the 1+ theme. Other videos like “Yes It Is” and “Eight Days A Week” no longer exist.