The Beatles fantastic cartoon fantasy.

Pepperland is a cheerful music-loving paradise located "80,000 leagues under the sea", and is named after and protected by Sergeant Pepper.

It is attacked by the music-hating Blue Meanies who seal the Band inside a musicproof sphere, then turn the Pepperlanders into statues and drain the country itself of colour.

Pepperland's Lord Mayor sends Old Fred (called "Young Fred" by the even older Mayor) off in a yellow submarine in order to get help. Travelling too Liverpool Fred begs for help from the depressed and aimless Ringo, who agrees and rounds up his three mates:Paul;John and George.

The five of them journey back to Pepperland in the submarine, passing through:

• the Sea Of Time - where they go forward and backward in time and sing "When im sixty four"
• the Sea Of Science - where they sing "Only a northern song",
• the Sea Of Monsters - where the dreaded "vacuum flask" beast sucks up the entire landscape and then itself,
• the Sea of Nothing - where they pick up a rather helpful "nowhere man" named Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. and sing the song of the same name,
• the foothills of the "Headlands" or Sea of Heads - where they get separated from the submarine
• and John sings "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds",
• and finally the Sea of Holes - where Jeremy is kidnapped by the Blue Meanies.
• When Ringo jumps on to a green hole (which turns into the Sea of Green), they arrive in Pepperland.

Reunited with Old Fred and the submarine, they imitate Sgt. Pepper's band, and "rally the land to rebellion". Jeremy is rescued, colour and flowers rebloom, the original Sgt. Pepper's band is released, and Pepperland is restored.

In the end, the heroes make peace with the Blue Meanies, and everyone lives happily ever after.

The Beatles themselves were not enthusiastic in participating in a motion picture at the time.

They had not enjoyed the production of their second feature film Help!, and had just produced and starred in the disastrous TV special Magical Mystery Tour.

They did, however, see an animated film as a favourable way to complete their commitment to United Artists for a third film.

Voice actors were hired to imitate the Fab Four's voices in the film.

However, the Beatles were impressed after seeing a rough cut of the film, and agreed to make a live-action cameo appearance in the final scene.

The cameo was originally intended to feature a post-production psychedelic background, but due to time and budget constraints a blank background remained in the final film.

Click Here to watch a clip from the film

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