Filminspelning av ’Magical Mystery Tour’
Denna tisdagsmorgon väcktes Paul McCartney, Mal Evans och kameramannen Aubrey Dewar av taxichauffören, som grabbarna hade hyrt dagen innan för att föra med till platser i Nice, där de kunde tänkta sig att spela in en lämplig filmsekvens till tonerna av The Fool On The Hill till filmen Magical Mystery Tour.
Paul McCartney minns och berättar:
We just asked the local taxi driver, ‘Where is a good place to see the sunrise from?’ Nice was fairly easily accessible. It had good mountain scenery and I figured we might get a good clear sunrise down there. It was the right time of the year. We all piled in the taxi and drove up into the mountains behind Nice. It took us about an hour and sunrise was in about half an hour. We unpacked the stuff from the boot, loaded up his camera, set up the tripod where we knew the sun would rise, and waited in the freezing cold. I had a big long black coat on and we just waited until the the sun arose. And I just danced around and he filmed it.
Paul McCartney i Nice, Frankrike under inspelningen
av filmbilderna till ’The Fool On The Hill’
I just ad-libbed the whole thing. I went, ‘Right, get over there: Let me dance. Let me jump from this rock to this rock. Get a lot of the sun rising. Get a perfect shot and let me stand in front of it.’ I just had a little Philips cassette to mime to and roughly get the feeling of the song. There was no clapper because there was no sound. Just my cassette. I said, ‘We’ll lay in the sound of “Fool on the Hill” afterwards.’ I’m miming sometimes, but of course it should be in synch, that’s what clappers are for. I didn’t know these small technicalities, and also I wasn’t that interested in being that precise.
We stayed until the sun went down. As the day went on, the light got worse. It got to be harsh daylight, so we got less material in the daytime. We basically used all the dawn stuff. And that was it. It was very spontaneous, as was the whole of Magical Mystery Tour. Later, when we came to try to edit it all, it was very difficult because I hadn’t sung it to synch.
En glad Paul McCartney i samband med filminspelningen
av rörliga bilder till låten ’The Fool On the Hill’.
We shouldn’t have really had just one cameraman, it was anti-union. That was another reason to go to France. The unions wouldn’t have allowed it in Britain, nor probably in France, but they didn’t know we were doing it. It was just the four of us; there was none of this grips, best boy, gaffer, none of that. In fact, our biggest danger was that the film didn’t conform with one union rule.
McCartney, Evans and Dewar återvände till England dagen eftr, den 1 november 1967.