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The film A Hard Day's Night (1964) is a mockumentary written by Alun Owen and starring The Beatles during the height of Beatlemania.
The director was Richard Lester, the producer Walter Shenson and the director of photography Gilbert Taylor. In addition to the Beatles, cast members included Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Lionel Blair, Derek Nimmo, and a young Phil Collins.
The film chronicles The Beatles' efforts to escape their frantic fans and have fun on their own before arriving at a theater, rehearsing, and finally performing in a television special. The soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night was the Beatles' third.
The film was shot for United Artists using a cinéma vérité style in black and white and produced over a period of 16 weeks in the spring of 1964. Black and white was chosen for its lower cost, and the short timescale was because the studio were convinced that Beatlemania would not last beyond the summer of '64. The film also used the innovative technique of cutting the images to the beat of the music, and because of this is now regarded as the first modern music video.
The film premiered on July 6, 1964, and remains the definitive documentary of Beatlemania.
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