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‘Beatles ’64’: Director David Tedeschi on Making Beatlemania Something to Scream About Again for New Disney+ Documentary
The new Disney+ documentary 'Beatles '64' captures the mania of the group's arrival on U.S. shores. Director David Tedeschi discusses the film.
I was imagining the making of the film might have dated back a lot longer than that, because you have Ronnie Spector in it — which is a highlight among the contemporary interviews — and she died in early 2022. (L-R) George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney arriving at JFK airport in ‘Beatles ’64.’ Photo Courtesy of Apple Corps. With the archival footage, how much did you look at at the various ways this material has been assembled before, with the rarely seen original documentary (the Maysles Brothers’ “What’s Happening?,” from 1964) and then the re-edited version that came out later (“The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit,” released in 1991 and again in 2004)?
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