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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Sound of Music from 1965 and Magical Mystery Tour from 1967.
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker.
The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse.
Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.
After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
The film was released on 2 March, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release.
Although critical response to the film was mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965.
By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind —and held that distinction for five years.
The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries.
Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,000,000.
The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.
In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: Robert Wise.
Produced by: Robert Wise.
Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman.
Story by: Maria von Trapp (uncredited).
Based on: The Sound of Music: by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
Starring: Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
Music by: Richard Rodgers and Irwin Kostal (score).
Cinematography: Ted D. McCord.
Edited by: William H. Reynolds.
Colour process: De Luxe.
Production company: Argyle Enterprises, Inc..
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.
Release date: 2 March , 1965 (United States).
File Length: 174 minutes
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $8.2 million.
Box office: $286.2 million.
Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 British made-for-television musical film directed by and starring the Beatles.
It is the third film that starred the band and depicts a group of people on a coach tour who experience strange happenings caused by magicians.
The premise was inspired by Ken Kesey's Furthur adventures with the Merry Pranksters and the then-popular coach trips from Liverpool to see the Blackpool Lights.
Paul McCartney is credited with conceptualising and leading the project.
Much of Magical Mystery Tour was shot in and around RAF West Malling, a decommissioned military airfield in Kent, and the script was largely improvised.
Shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches and situations.
The film is interspersed with musical interludes, which include the Beatles performing " I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes' "Death Cab For Cutie".
The film originally aired on BBC1, in black-and-white, on Boxing Day,26 December 1967.
A colour transmission followed on BBC2 on 5 January 1968.
It was poorly received by critics and audiences, although its accompanying soundtrack was a commercial and critical success.
The film received an American theatrical release in 1974 by New Line Cinema, and in select theatres worldwide in 2012 by Apple Films.
Genre: Surreal comedy.
Written by: The Beatles.
Directed by: The Beatles.
Starring: The Beatles.
Narrated by: John Lennon.
Composer: The Beatles.
Country of origin: United Kingdom.
Original language: English.
Producer: Dennis O'Dell.
Cinematography: Richard Starkey M.B.E..
Editor: Roy Benson.
File length: 53 minutes.
Production companies: Apple Corps and BBC.
Distributor: New Line Cinema (1974 US release) and Apple Films (2012 worldwide release).
Original network: BBC1.
Original release: 26 December 1967.
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