Ed Hart visits Beatlesville (1964)
About This Item
KRON-TV news footage from August 19, 1964 with reporter Ed Hard featuring a visit to "Beatlesville" in South San Francisco, which is filling up with thousands of fans, in anticipation of The Beatles playing at the Cow Palace that evening. This was opening night for their first-ever concert tour of the US. Includes interviews with excited fans, scenes of religious protestors being mobbed by happy teenagers and silent views of a Beatles rally in Union Square, which heads over to KYA Radio. Ends with a second to-camera summary from Hart (we don't know which version aired). Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.
This 16mm film reel was kindly donated to the TV Archive by David Webb Peoples in April 2023, who used to work as a film editor for KRON in the 1960s.
This 16mm reversal film print was re-transferred in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in April 2023.
- Date
- 8/19/1964
- Format
- 16mm b&w negative, with co-magnetic soundtrack
- Digital Format
- mp4 video file
- Genre
- local TV newsfilm
- Copyright Holder
- Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved.
- Duration
- 10:21
- Identifier
- KRON 5866-1
- Views
- 1634