25, with many scenes being filmed at the Royal Air Force West Malling, a decommissioned military airfield in Kent. The bulk of work took place through Sept. "If somebody wanted to do something we hadn’t planned, they went ahead. "We knew most of the scenes we wanted to include, but we bent our ideas to fit the people concerned, once we got to know our cast," Lennon later admitted. (O'Dell would go on to head Apple Films for the Beatles in 1968.) But the lack of a clear plan doomed the project from this very first day. They had experienced help from co-producer Denis O'Dell, who had worked as an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night, as well as 1967's How I Won the War starring John Lennon. Instead, he brought along a hand-drawn, circular diagram with sketched possibilities for the film, which he dubbed a "scrupt." 11, 1967, McCartney did indeed have an idea – lots of them actually, but not a definitive script. Watch a Trailer for 'Magical Mystery Tour' Ringo Starr placed the blame on McCartney. 26, 1967, it understandably confused viewers. "It wasn't the kind of thing we could do a disclaimer before it and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to see is a product of our imaginations,'" Paul McCartney said in 2012's Magical Mystery Tour Revisited, "and believe me, at this point they're quite vivid."
When the 52-minute film was first broadcast across British televisions on Dec. The film is designed to be structureless – a stream of consciousness that might best be compared to Ken Kesey's trip with the Merry Pranksters - underscored with the songs that would appear on the Magical Mystery Tour album. A group of friends and family embark on a bus trip, and various strange happenings ensue thanks to a cohort of "magicians" – four of whom are played by the Beatles themselves and the fifth by their long-time road manager Mal Evans.
It is difficult to describe the plot of Magical Mystery Tour, namely because there really isn't one.
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