The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have published previously unseen footage of The Beatles getting ready for a television performance.
The NFSA found the 49 second silent video shot by Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane in 1965. Ms Swane was working for Granada TV in Manchester when the video was shot on 1 November 1965.
Dawn Swane said: ‘I was in the makeup room, and we were having some champagne […] I don’t know if it was John or if it was Ringo, but they took the camera off me and said, “This is no way to use a camera” and they sort of jiggled it upside down and inside out a bit, and everybody was just mucking around. But that was great. I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were’.
Ms Swane’s home videos were donated to the NFSA by her daughter Melinda Doring.
Other highlights from this collection include footage of a very young Michael Caine on the set of the TV drama The Other Man. At the time Dawn claimed that ‘mascara gave [Caine] his sex appeal’, and that Ringo ‘always insists on a hair wash before the show starts’. She shared these and other celebrity stories in The Australian Women’s Weekly dated 22 February 1967.
