Tribute to Albert Maysles
What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Directors
Albert Maysles
David Maysles
Producers
Albert Maysles
David Maysles
Cinematographers
Albert Maysles
David Maysles
Editors
Daniel Williams
Howard Milkin
Kate Glidden
Sound
Dick Vorisek
Contact
Maysles Films
343 Lenox Avenue
New York, NY 10027
+1 (212) 582-6050
[email protected]
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1964
United States
74 min
Black & White
A humorous, freewheeling and candid account of The Beatles arrival in America in February 1964. The Maysles follow the Fab Four for five days, from the crazed JFK airport reception to unguarded moments inside the Plaza Hotel in preparation for their landmark Ed Sullivan Show appearance to their equally frenzied homecoming. Inspiring Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night (1964), What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. was subsequently rereleased by Apple Corps. in an edited version as The Beatles: The First US Visit (1999).
Born in 1926, Albert Maysles is a pioneer of Direct Cinema and was, along with his late brother David, the first to make nonfiction feature films, where the drama of life unfolds as is without scripts, sets, interviews or narration. Albert made his first film, PSYCHIATRY IN RUSSIA (1955), as he transitioned from psychologist to filmmaker. This year Albert received the National Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama.
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