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I was one of the 2 audio engineers who worked on restoring this footage around 15 years ago - so very excited to see what the final docs look like.

There’s definitely some interesting material in there - members of the band reflecting on why the Beatles are falling apart, moments where iconic Beatles songs came into being.

Not being a particular Beatles fan I worked on the project for about 9 months and came away with a much greater respect for them.

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What was the original recording? I assume much would be 1/4 inch tape off a nagra with a decent microphone but given how much was in studio it could be full 1inch tape, kinda like a wild track left running.

The biographies says the Beatles hated stereo right up to the end. But they did like high quality recording.

(I got to play with a nagra in the 80s. It was wonderful)

The material had been transferred when I started working on it - but as I understand it, they had 2 x Nagra 1/4” machine running pretty much continuously. The cameras were filming sporadically and not all of the audio tapes had been recovered.

My job was a gigantic jigsaw puzzle of watching the pictures and reuniting it with the correct sound for the first time since the original movie.

Nagra made some amazing machines - such incredible precise engineering.

Worked with Nagra in film school (where they correctly forced us to use with before we could use digital). Loved it. The sound you could get from them was amazing.

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