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85-583: Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio in St Margarets , in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , that is used by various motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice rink. At the time of its original construction, it was the largest film studio in the United Kingdom. In February 2012, it was announced that due to

170-408: A boom barrier and explain the purpose of their visit to a security guard . The sound stage is the central component of a studio lot. Most studios have several; small studios may have as few as one, and large studios have as many as 20 to 30. Movie studios also provide office space for studio executives and production companies, and makeup rooms and rehearsal rooms for talent. If space allows,

255-465: A "slightly sad postscript", adding, "there are still monster tunes here by anyone else's standards, but it lacks sonic clarity, and is peppered with under-developed, sub-standard blues." Let It Be was ranked number 86 in Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, number 392 in the 2012 version, and number 342 in the 2020 edition. It was voted number 890 in

340-497: A breakthrough record, unless for the predominance of informal, unedited live takes; but definitely a record to give lasting pleasure. They aren't having to scrape the barrel yet." In his review for The Sunday Times , Derek Jewell deemed the album to be "a last will and testament, from the blackly funereal packaging to the music itself, which sums up so much of what The Beatles as artists have been – unmatchably brilliant at their best, careless and self-indulgent at their least." In

425-579: A certain number of British films each year to be allowed to release their pictures into the lucrative British market. Hagen became very efficient at producing large numbers of these quickies of varying quality. He often filmed all day, and then brought in different crews and actors to work through the night. Following the success of Alexander Korda 's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Hagen became interested in producing films which could be released in America. Twickenham took on more quality work such as

510-585: A four-minute edit of " Dig It ". A tape copy of this acetate would later make its way to the United States, where it was played on radio stations in Buffalo and Boston over September 1969. The cover of the proposed album featured a photograph of the Beatles taken by Angus McBean on 13 May in the interior stairwell at EMI 's Manchester Square headquarters. The photo was intended as an update of

595-656: A growing proportion of Hollywood movie revenue, with approximately 70% of total movie revenue coming from international ticket sales; and the Chinese domestic box-office revenue is projected to outpace those of US in 2020. The growth of film studios and filmmaking outside of Hollywood and the US has produced popular international film studio locations such as Hollywood North ( Vancouver and Toronto in Canada ), Bollywood ( Mumbai , India ), and Nollywood ( Lagos , Nigeria ). As

680-736: A mistake, however, as the major American studios blocked his entry into their market, while his films failed to gain access to the British market. In 1937, Hagen's company went bankrupt as part of a wider slump in British filmmaking that year, bringing an end to his reign at Twickenham. Numerous films have been made at Twickenham Film Studios since the end of Hagen's tenure, including Carol Reed 's The Stars Look Down (1939). In 1946, Alfred Shipman formed Alliance Film Studios Limited, controlling Riverside , Southall and Twickenham Film Studios. After his death in 1956, his two sons Gerald (father of Piers Flint-Shipman ) and Kenneth Shipman took control of

765-433: A movie studio has usually been housed on a "studio lot." Physically, a studio lot is a secure compound enclosed by a tall perimeter wall. This is necessary to protect filmmaking operations from unwanted interference from paparazzi and crazed fans of leading movie stars . Movement in and out of the studio lot is normally limited to specific gates (often capped with grand decorative arches), where visitors must stop at

850-511: A producer. When EMI informed Martin that he would not get a production credit because Spector produced the final version, Martin commented, "I produced the original, and what you should do is have a credit saying 'Produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector'." In most countries except the United States, the Let It Be LP was originally presented in a box with a full colour book. The book contained photos by Ethan Russell from

935-454: A retrospective review, Richie Unterberger of AllMusic described Let It Be as the "only Beatles album to occasion negative, even hostile reviews", but felt that it was "on the whole underrated". He singles out "some good moments of straight hard rock in 'I've Got a Feeling' and 'Dig a Pony'", and praises "Let It Be", "Get Back" and "the folky 'Two of Us'". Reviewing for The Daily Telegraph in 2009, Neil McCormick described Let It Be as

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1020-423: A state-of-the-art sound centre, at the heart of which is the refurbished The Richard Attenborough Theatre, named after Richard Attenborough , who used to have his production offices at the studios. Following major modernisation and expansion in recent years, Twickenham Film Studios has extensively refurbished and upgraded its two largest re-recording theatres, making the studios the most advanced sound department in

1105-788: A studio may have an outside backlot . Finally, there is a studio "commissary", which is the traditional term in the movie industry for what other industries call a company cafeteria . In addition to these basic components, the largest film studios are full-service enterprises offering the entire range of production and post-production services necessary to create a motion picture, including costumes, props, cameras, sound recording, crafts, sets, lighting, special effects , cutting, editing, mixing, scoring, automated dialogue replacement (ADR), re-recording, and foley . Independent suppliers of all these services and more (e.g., photographic processing labs) are often found in clusters in close proximity to film studios. Nitrate film , manufactured until 1951,

1190-533: A total of eight generally recognized major studios. United Artists, although its controlling partners owned not one but two production studios during the Golden Age, had an often-tenuous hold on the title of major and operated mainly as a backer and distributor of independently produced films. Smaller studios operated simultaneously with the majors. These included operations such as Republic Pictures , active from 1935, which produced films that occasionally matched

1275-654: A tram tour of the backlot where films such as Psycho and Back to the Future were once shot. In fall 2019, movie mogul Tyler Perry opened Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta . The studio lot is claimed to be larger than any movie-studio lot in Hollywood. In the 1980s and 1990s, as the cost of professional 16mm film equipment decreased, along with the emergence of non-film innovations such as S-VHS and Mini-DV cameras, many young filmmakers began to make films outside

1360-503: The 1918 flu epidemic by Los Angeles compared to other American cities reduced the number of cases there and resulted in a faster recovery, contributing to the increasing dominance of Hollywood over New York City. The Big 5 By the mid-1920s, the evolution of a handful of American production companies into wealthy motion picture industry conglomerates that owned their own studios, distribution divisions , and theaters , and contracted with performers and other filmmaking personnel led to

1445-503: The Get Back recordings. Johns booked time at Olympic Studios between 10 March and 28 May to mix the album and completed the final banded master tape on 28 May. Only one track, "One After 909", was taken from the rooftop concert, with " I've Got a Feeling " and " Dig a Pony " (then called "All I Want Is You") being studio recordings instead. Johns also favoured earlier, rougher versions of "Two of Us" and " The Long and Winding Road " over

1530-581: The Gracie Fields vehicle This Week of Grace . This ultimately led Hagen to stop making quickies entirely and focus exclusively on "quality" productions. He began to make more expensive films, such as Seymour Hicks 's Scrooge (1935) and Spy of Napoleon for which he hoped to gain an international market. Hagen spent £100,000 rebuilding Twickenham Studios and acquired studios in other parts of London. He also broke with his established distributors and attempted to distribute his own films. This proved

1615-586: The Hollywood area was Nestor Studios , opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley . In the same year, another 15 independents settled in Hollywood. Other production companies eventually settled in the Los Angeles area in places such as Culver City , Burbank , and what would soon become known as Studio City in the San Fernando Valley . The stronger early public health response to

1700-471: The Apple building on 22 January. Preston contributed to most of the recording and also became an Apple Records artist. McCartney and Lindsay-Hogg continued to hope for a public concert by the Beatles to cap the project. According to Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn , it is uncertain who thought of a rooftop concert, but the idea was conceived just days before the actual event. In Preston's recollection, it

1785-456: The Beatles were "coming out of our shell ... kind of saying: remember what it was like to play ?" George Harrison welcomed the return to the band's roots, saying that they were aiming "to get as funky as we were in the Cavern ". Concerned about the friction over the previous year, Paul McCartney was eager for the Beatles to perform live again. In early October 1968, he told the press that

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1870-653: The Edison company in 1912. The pioneering Thanhouser movie studio was founded in New Rochelle, New York in 1909 by American theatrical impresario Edwin Thanhouser . The company produced and released 1,086 movies between 1910 and 1917, successfully distributing them around the world. In the early 1900s, companies started moving to Los Angeles, California . Although electric lights were by then widely available, none were yet powerful enough to adequately expose film;

1955-545: The January 1969 filming, dialogue from the film, with all expletives removed at EMI's insistence, and essays by Rolling Stone writers Jonathan Cott and David Dalton . Despite the new album title, the book was still titled Get Back . Its inclusion was another step in the Beatles' efforts to provide increasingly elaborate packaging for their records since Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . The book's lavishness increased production costs by 33 per cent, however, driving

2040-496: The LP appeared on the market in the US. Paul McCartney, long unhappy with the original Phil Spector produced Let It Be LP, initiated a remix of the album, titled Let It Be... Naked which was released in 2003. The album was presented as an alternative attempt to capture the original artistic vision of the project, to "get back" to the rock and roll sound of the band's early years. The album features alternate takes, edits, and mixes of

2125-597: The LP's liner notes described Let It Be as a "new phase Beatles album", adding that "in come the warmth and the freshness of a live performance; as reproduced for disc by Phil Spector". Martin and Johns were among those listed for "thanks to". Let It Be topped album charts in both the US and the UK, and the "Let It Be" single and "The Long and Winding Road" also reached number one in the US. Despite its commercial success, according to Beatles Diary author Keith Badman, "reviews [were] not good". NME critic Alan Smith wrote: "If

2210-730: The Time of Cholera (2007), directed by Mike Newell. The thriller Before I Go To Sleep (2014), written and directed by Rowan Joffé , which features Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth , was shot at the studios early in 2013. More recently, Twickenham Film Studios carried out script-to-screen work on Ten Percent , the British remake of French series Call My Agent. Recent work also includes Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast , Top Gun: Maverick , Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody , Last Night in Soho and House of Gucci . The studios' post production facilities include

2295-417: The UK. The Dubbing Theatres have 4K DCI Projection and HDX Pro Tools rigs as standard. It is one of the studios in the UK which has been Dolby Premier certified. Other facilities include a second dubbing theatre, ADR / Foley Theatre, numerous cutting rooms, office facilities and sound transfer facilities. Films that have used the facilities, production and post production, include: TV shows that have used

2380-401: The album, then titled Get Back , which the band rejected. As bootlegs of these mixes circulated widely among fans, the project lay in limbo, and the group moved on to the recording of Abbey Road , released that September. In January 1970, four months after John Lennon departed from the band, the remaining Beatles completed " Let It Be " and recorded " I Me Mine ". The former was issued as

2465-422: The animated film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993). Twickenham Film Studios has three stages that are sound-proofed and operate on a 'four wall' basis. Dressing rooms, star apartments, make-up, hairdressing and wardrobe departments and camera rooms are situated adjacent to each stage, with nearby prop rooms, art departments and office suites. The largest, Stage 1, has a concrete water tank, housed underneath

2550-480: The band agreed to Harrison's terms for returning to the group: they would abandon the plan to stage a public concert and move from the cavernous soundstage at Twickenham to their Apple Studio , where they would be filmed recording a new album, using the material they had gathered to that point. The band's return to work was delayed by the poor quality of the recording and mixing equipment designed by Lennon's friend "Magic" Alex Mardas and installed at Apple Studio, in

2635-399: The band on their objective were construed as overly controlling, particularly by Harrison. The atmosphere in the film studios, the early start each day, and the intrusive cameras and microphones of Lindsay-Hogg's film crew combined to heighten the Beatles' discontent. When the band rehearsed McCartney's " Two of Us " on 6 January, a tense exchange ensued between McCartney and Harrison about

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2720-617: The band would soon play a live show for subsequent broadcast in a TV special. The following month, Apple Corps announced that the Beatles had booked the Roundhouse in north London for 12–23 December and would perform at least one concert during that time. When this plan came to nothing, Denis O'Dell, the head of Apple Films , suggested that the group be filmed rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios , in preparation for their return to live performance, since he had booked studio space there to shoot The Magic Christian . The initial plan

2805-423: The band, Paul McCartney had conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the group by returning to simpler rock 'n' roll configurations. Its rehearsals started at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showcasing the Beatles' return to live performance. The filmed rehearsals were marked by ill feeling, leading to George Harrison 's temporary departure from

2890-564: The basement of the Apple Corps building at 3 Savile Row . Producer George Martin , who had been only a marginal presence at Twickenham, arranged to borrow two four-track recorders from EMI Studios ; he and audio engineer Glyn Johns then prepared the facility for the Beatles' use. Sessions (and filming) at Apple began on 21 January. The atmosphere in the band was markedly improved. To help achieve this, Harrison invited keyboardist Billy Preston to participate, after meeting him outside

2975-686: The best source of illumination for motion picture production was natural sunlight. Some movies were shot on the roofs of buildings in Downtown Los Angeles . Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company , based in New York City, controlled almost all the patents relevant to movie production at the time. Early movie producers relocated to Southern California to escape patent enforcement, thanks to more lenient local courts and physical distance from company detectives and mob allies. (Edison's patents expired in 1913.) The first movie studio in

3060-493: The case of the latter, which was the third and final single of the album. Let It Be topped record charts in several countries, including both the UK and the US. However, it was a critical failure at the time, and came to be regarded as one of the most controversial rock albums in history, though retrospective reception has been more positive. In 2003, McCartney spearheaded Let It Be... Naked , an alternative version of Let It Be that removes Spector's embellishments and alters

3145-420: The coda recorded the next day, and cross-faded to the remarks at the end of the rooftop concert. Seven of the tracks were thereby released in accordance with the original plans for the Get Back project, whereas the album versions of " For You Blue ", "I Me Mine", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" include editing, splicing and/or overdubs. "Don't Let Me Down", recorded live in the studio two days before

3230-430: The concert venue was not established when rehearsals began on 2 January, it was decided that the 18th would serve as a potential dress rehearsal day; the 19th and 20th would serve as concert dates. It was a disaster. They were still exhausted from the marathon The Beatles sessions. Paul bossed George around; George was moody and resentful. John would not even go to the bathroom without Yoko at his side ... The tension

3315-457: The facilities, production and post production, include: 51°27′20″N 0°19′08″W  /  51.45566°N 0.31887°W  / 51.45566; -0.31887 Film studio There are also independently owned studio facilities, who have never produced a motion picture of their own because they are not entertainment companies or motion picture companies; they are companies who sell only studio space. In 1893, Thomas Edison built

3400-479: The federal government won a case against Paramount in the Supreme Court , which ruled that the vertically integrated structure of the movie industry constituted an illegal monopoly . This decision, reached after twelve years of litigation, hastened the end of the studio system and Hollywood's "Golden Age". By the 1950s, the physical components of a typical movie studio had become standardized. Since then,

3485-729: The film industry had once hoped—movie studios were increasingly being used to produce programming for the burgeoning medium. Some midsize film companies, such as Republic Pictures , eventually sold their studios to TV production concerns , which were eventually bought by larger studios, such as the American Broadcasting Company which was purchased by Disney in 1996. With the growing diversification of studios into such fields as video games , television stations , broadcast syndication , television , theme parks , home video and publishing , they have become multi-national corporations. International markets account for

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3570-476: The film. In 1988, the Slovenian band Laibach released a martial industrial version of the album, also titled Let It Be . Beatles author Kenneth Womack comments on Laibach's notable exclusion of the title track and describes the album as "military style interpretations and choral pieces". For the magazine's October 2010 issue, Mojo released Let It Be Revisited , a CD containing interpretations of

3655-527: The first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria , a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange , New Jersey , and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera. He distributed these movies at vaudeville theaters, penny arcades, wax museums, and fairgrounds. The first film serial , What Happened to Mary , was released by

3740-649: The floor boards. A camera pit at one end allows underwater viewing through a glass screen. This stage has been used for innumerable films, including the two Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help! , An American Werewolf in London (1981) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth (2007) was shot on this stage. Films shot on Stage 3 include Roman Polanski's Repulsion , Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and Lewis Gilbert's Shirley Valentine (1989). Later films include Layer Cake (2004), directed by Matthew Vaughn, and Love in

3825-488: The group's Please Please Me cover image from 1963 and was particularly favoured by Lennon. The text design and placement similarly mirrored that of the 1963 LP sleeve. The sequencing of "One After 909", a Lennon–McCartney composition from the early 1960s, as the opening track furthered the back-to-the-roots aesthetic. The Beatles rejected the album. The Get Back album was intended for release in July 1969, but its release

3910-442: The group. As a condition of his return, the members reconvened at their own Apple Studio , and recruited guest keyboardist Billy Preston . Together, they performed a single public concert on the studio's rooftop on 30 January, from which three of the album's tracks were drawn. In April, the Beatles issued the lead single " Get Back ", backed with " Don't Let Me Down ", after which engineer Glyn Johns prepared and submitted mixes of

3995-411: The inner dead wax. The LP cover was designed by John Kosh and includes individual photos of the four band members, again taken by Russell. On the front cover, the photos are set in quadrants on a black surround. The album title appears in white text above the images but, as on Abbey Road and other Beatles LPs, the cover does not include the band's name. Written by Apple press officer Derek Taylor ,

4080-504: The latter's lead guitar part. During lunch on 10 January, Lennon and Harrison had a heated disagreement in which Harrison berated Lennon for his lack of engagement with the project. Harrison was also angry with Lennon for telling a music journalist that the Beatles' Apple organisation was in financial ruin. According to journalist Michael Housego's report in the Daily Sketch , Harrison and Lennon's exchange descended into violence with

4165-582: The more polished performances from the final, 31 January session (which were eventually chosen for the Let It Be film; the Let It Be album used the 31 January take of "Two of Us" but the same 26 January take of "The Long and Winding Road" that Johns had used). It also included a jam called "Rocker", a brief rendition of the Drifters ' " Save the Last Dance for Me ", Lennon's " Don't Let Me Down " and

4250-427: The new Beatles' soundtrack is to be their last then it will stand as a cheapskate epitaph, a cardboard tombstone, a sad and tatty end to a musical fusion which wiped clean and drew again the face of pop." Smith added that the album showed "contempt for the intelligence of today's record-buyer" and that the Beatles had "sold out all the principles for which they ever stood". Reviewing for Rolling Stone , John Mendelsohn

4335-600: The nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus . Despite his objections to Spector's embellishments and the expensive packaging, including the "blatant hype" printed on the LP's back cover, McCartney personally accepted the band's award. That same year, the Beatles won the Academy Award for the Best Original Song Score for the songs in

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4420-463: The pair allegedly throwing punches at each other. Harrison denied this in a 16 January interview for the Daily Express , saying: "There was no punch-up. We just fell out." After lunch on 10 January, Harrison announced that he was leaving the band and told the others, "See you round the clubs." Starr attributed Harrison's exit to McCartney "dominating" him. During a meeting on 15 January,

4505-469: The playlist, moving " Let It Be " away from " The Long and Winding Road " onto the first side. The Beatles once again rejected the album. Producer Phil Spector was invited by Lennon and Harrison to take on the task of turning the Beatles' abandoned Get Back recording sessions into a usable album. The songs " Get Back " and " Don't Let Me Down " had been released on a single in April 1969 and "Let It Be"

4590-575: The project, Lennon maintained an icy distance from his bandmates and scorned McCartney's ideas. By contrast, Harrison was inspired by his recent stay in the US; there, he enjoyed jamming with musicians in Los Angeles and experienced a musical camaraderie and creative freedom with Bob Dylan and the Band in upstate New York that was lacking in the Beatles. Harrison presented several new songs for consideration at Twickenham, some of which were dismissed by Lennon and McCartney. McCartney's attempts to focus

4675-506: The recent solo releases by McCartney and Starr. Gabree admired "Let It Be", "Get Back" and "Two of Us", but derided "The Long and Winding Road" and "Across the Universe", the last of which he described as "bloated and self-satisfied – the kind of song we've come to expect from these rich, privileged prototeenagers". While questioning whether the Beatles' split would remain permanent, William Mann of The Times described Let It Be as "Not

4760-426: The retail price higher than for any previous Beatles album. In the United States, the Let It Be album was issued in a gatefold cover and was initially distributed by United Artists Records instead of their usual Capitol Records , with the record using red-tinted Apple labels to reflect this change. (Capitol would acquire United Artists in 1979.) On both sides of the disc, the words "Phil+Ronnie" are inscribed into

4845-467: The rooftop concert, was omitted from the album. "Across the Universe" is an edited version of the original 1968 recording, played back at a slower speed (which lowered the key from D to D♭ ), which had only been rehearsed at Twickenham and not professionally recorded on multi-track tape during the January 1969 sessions. McCartney was dissatisfied with Spector's treatment of some songs, particularly "The Long and Winding Road". McCartney had conceived of

4930-404: The rooftop performance: "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909" and "Dig a Pony". "Two of Us" was recorded "live in the studio" with the band members playing together in a single take, and without overdubs or splicing. Spector included " Dig It " and " Maggie Mae ", which were improvised during the recordings. "Get Back", on the other hand, included only the section recorded on 27 January 1969, without

5015-504: The scale and ambition of the larger studio, and Monogram Pictures , which specialized in series and genre releases. Together with smaller outfits such as PRC TKO and Grand National, the minor studios filled the demand for B movies and are sometimes collectively referred to as Poverty Row . The Big Five's ownership of movie theaters was eventually opposed by eight independent producers, including Samuel Goldwyn , David O. Selznick , Walt Disney , Hal Roach , and Walter Wanger . In 1948,

5100-480: The second single from the album with production by George Martin . When the documentary film was resurrected for a cinema release, as Let It Be , Lennon and Harrison asked American producer Phil Spector to assemble the accompanying album. Among Spector's choices was to include a 1968 take of " Across the Universe " and apply orchestral and choral overdubs to "Let It Be", "Across the Universe" and " The Long and Winding Road ". His work offended McCartney, particularly in

5185-566: The sessions had revealed deep divisions within the group for the first time, leading to Ringo Starr quitting for three weeks, the band enjoyed the opportunity to re-engage with ensemble playing, as a departure from the psychedelic experimentation that had characterised their recordings since the band's retirement from live performance in August 1966. Before the White Album's release, John Lennon enthused to music journalist Jonathan Cott that

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5270-723: The sometimes confusing equation of studio with production company in industry slang. Five large companies: RKO Radio Pictures , 20th Century Fox , Paramount Pictures , Warner Bros. , and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer came to be known as the Big Five, the majors, or the Studios in trade publications such as Variety , and their management structures and practices collectively came to be known as the studio system . The Little 3 Although they owned few or no theaters to guarantee sales of their films, Universal Pictures , Columbia Pictures , and United Artists also fell under these rubrics, making

5355-436: The song as a simple piano ballad, but Spector dubbed in orchestral and choral accompaniment. Lennon defended Spector's work in his " Lennon Remembers " interview for Rolling Stone , saying, "He was given the shittiest load of badly recorded shit – and with a lousy feeling to it – ever. And he made something out of it. He did a great job. When I heard it, I didn't puke." Lennon chose not to credit Johns for his contribution as

5440-431: The song did not appear in the film. It added " Across the Universe " (a remix of the 1968 studio version, as the January 1969 rehearsals had not been properly recorded) and " I Me Mine ", on which only Harrison, McCartney and Starr performed, as Lennon had already left the band. "I Me Mine" was newly recorded on 3 January 1970, as it appeared in the film since no multi-track recording had yet been made. Johns also rearranged

5525-697: The songs by acts such as Beth Orton , Phosphorescent , Judy Collins , Wilko Johnson , the Besnard Lakes , John Grant and the Jim Jones Revue . In 1976, the United Artists release of the Let It Be album went out of print in America until 1979, when United Artists Records was acquired by Capitol Records. Let It Be was reissued on the Capitol label, catalogue number SW 11922; during this three year hiatus, many counterfeit copies of

5610-416: The songs, mainly removing elements added by Spector. The album omits the group chatter, "Maggie Mae" and "Dig It", and adds a live rooftop performance of "Don't Let Me Down", a song omitted from the original album and issued as the B side of the "Get Back" single in 1969. In November 2021, The Beatles: Get Back , a new documentary directed by Peter Jackson using footage captured for the Let It Be film,

5695-475: The studio going into administration, it would close before June, just a year before its centenary. The studio was subsequently saved from closure, with a new owner acquiring the studio in August 2012. The studios were acquired in February 2020 by The Creative District Improvement Co. with backing from British Airways Pension Fund and TIME + SPACE Studios as operator on a long lease to run the studios. In 1913,

5780-578: The studio system. Filmmakers and producers such as Mike Judge , Adam Sandler , Jim Jarmusch , Robert Rodriguez , Steven Soderbergh , Quentin Tarantino , Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater made films that pushed boundaries in ways the studios were then reluctant to do. In response to these films, many distributed by mini-studios like Miramax , the majors created their own in-house mini-studios meant to focus on edgier, independent content. Focus Features

5865-601: The studios increased in size they began to rely on production companies like J. J. Abrams ' Bad Robot to handle many of the creative and physical production details of their feature films. Instead, the studios transformed into financing and distribution entities for their films (generally made by their affiliated production companies). With the decreasing cost of CGI and visual effects , many studios sold large chunks of their once-massive studio spaces or backlots to private real-estate developers. Century City in Los Angeles

5950-620: The studios were constructed by the newly formed London Film Company , and were at that time the largest in Britain. London Film was a leading producer during the First World War , but the company struggled and went out of business in 1920. Twickenham Studios were sold off, and were used for various independent productions. During the 1930s, the studio was run by Julius Hagen . Hagen built up his business making Quota quickies for major American studios, who were required by law to produce

6035-558: The studios while rehearsing music for their album Let It Be . A film was made of some of the sessions; both the film and the album were released in 1970. Footage from Twickenham was the setting of the first of a three-part documentary about these sessions directed by Peter Jackson . In the 1980s, the studio was used for The Mirror Crack'd , An American Werewolf in London (1981), Blade Runner (1982), and A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Later films include The Others (2001), The Crucible (1996), Sweet Revenge (1998), and

6120-648: The studios, with Kenneth later going on to form Alliance Film Distributors. In the 1960s, classic films such as Alfie (1966) starring Michael Caine , The Italian Job (1969), featuring Caine and Noël Coward , and Roman Polanski 's first English language film, Repulsion (1965), were made at Twickenham. Be My Guest (also 1965) features Jerry Lee Lewis , an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott , and The Nashville Teens . The first two Beatles feature films were made at Twickenham: A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and also their promotional film for " Hey Jude " (1968). The Beatles used

6205-540: The third edition of Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). On Metacritic , the 50th Anniversary multi-disc Super Deluxe Edition of the album holds a score of 91 out of 100, based on seven professional reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". In 1971, Let It Be won the Grammy Award for the Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special . It was also one of

6290-433: The tracklist. In 2021, another remixed and expanded edition of Let It Be was released with session highlights and the original 1969 Get Back mix, coinciding with The Beatles: Get Back , an eight-hour documentary series covering the January 1969 sessions and rooftop concert. The Beatles completed the five-month sessions for their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album") in mid-October 1968. While

6375-399: Was John Lennon who suggested it. Until the last minute, according to Lindsay-Hogg, the Beatles were still undecided about performing the concert. He recalled that on 30 January, they had discussed it and then gone silent, until "John said in the silence, 'Fuck it – let's go do it. ' " The four Beatles and Preston arrived on the roof at around 12:30 pm. When they began to play, there

6460-444: Was also critical of the album, citing Spector's production embellishments as a weakness: "Musically, boys, you passed the audition. In terms of having the judgment to avoid either over-producing yourselves or casting the fate of your get-back statement to the most notorious of all over-producers, you didn't." John Gabree of High Fidelity magazine found the album "not nearly as bad as the movie" and "positively wonderful" relative to

6545-561: Was confusion nearby among members of the public, many of whom were on their lunch break. As the news of the event spread, crowds began to congregate in the streets and on the flat rooftops of nearby buildings. Police officers ascended to the roof just as the Beatles began the second take of "Don't Let Me Down". The concert came to an end with the conclusion of "Get Back". Recording of the project (and filming) wrapped on 31 January. In early March, Lennon and McCartney called Johns to Abbey Road and offered him free rein to compile an album from

6630-500: Was created by Universal Pictures and Fox Searchlight was created by 20th Century Fox for this purpose. Let It Be (album) Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles . It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the official announcement of the group's public break-up , in tandem with the documentary of the same name . Concerned about recent friction within

6715-435: Was highly flammable, and sets and backlots were and still are very flammable, which is why film studios built in the early-to-mid 20th century have water towers to facilitate firefighting . Water towers "somewhat inexplicably" evolved into "a most potent symbol ... of movie studios in general." Halfway through the 1950s, with television proving to be a lucrative enterprise not destined to disappear any time soon—as many in

6800-415: Was not present) that he "wanted a divorce" from the group. By December, the Get Back album had been shelved. On 15 December, the Beatles again approached Johns to compile an album, but this time with the instruction that the songs must match those included in the as yet unreleased Get Back film. Between 15 December 1969 and 8 January 1970, new mixes were prepared. Johns's new mix omitted " Teddy Boy " as

6885-399: Was once part of the 20th Century Fox backlot, which was among the largest and most famous of the studio lots. In most cases, portions of the backlots were retained and are available for rental by various film and television productions. Some studios offer tours of their backlots , while Universal Pictures allows visitors to its adjacent Universal Studios Hollywood theme park to take

6970-485: Was palpable, and it was all being caught on film. – Barry Miles , The Beatles Diary The Twickenham rehearsals quickly disintegrated into what Apple Corps executive Peter Brown characterised as a "hostile lethargy". Lennon and his partner Yoko Ono had descended into heroin addiction after their arrest on drugs charges in October and Ono's subsequent miscarriage. Unable to supply his quota of new songs for

7055-414: Was pushed back to September to coincide with the planned television special and the theatrical film about the making of the album. In September, the release was pushed back to December, because the Beatles had just recorded Abbey Road and wanted to issue that album instead. On 20 September, six days before Abbey Road was released, Lennon told McCartney, Starr, and business manager Allen Klein (Harrison

7140-749: Was that the rehearsal footage would be edited into a short TV documentary promoting the main TV special, in which the Beatles would perform a public concert or perhaps two concerts. Michael Lindsay-Hogg had agreed to direct the project, having worked with the band on some of their promotional films. The project's timeline was dictated by Harrison being away in the United States until Christmas and Starr's commitment to begin filming his role in The Magic Christian in February 1969. The band intended to perform only new material and were therefore under pressure to finish writing an album's worth of songs. Although

7225-617: Was the A-side of the band's March 1970 single. To coincide with the single, the project was renamed Let It Be . The film , now with the new title, was premiered in New York City on 13 May 1970. One week later, UK premieres were held at the Liverpool Gaumont Cinema and the London Pavilion . None of the Beatles attended any of the premieres. For the soundtrack album, Spector chose three tracks recorded live from

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