Charlie Jenkins obituary: Special effects director on Yellow Submarine - The Times
Jenkins, who was experimenting with graphics and film titles for Richard Williams Animation in Soho Square, got wind of the excitement surrounding Yellow Submarine. He was 26, had never been to art school, and had learnt everything he knew on the shop floor, including at the TV Cartoons (TVC) studios — also, naturally, in Soho — of the Canadian director George Dunning, who had been commissioned to direct the Beatles film.
What had impressed Dunning at TVC was Jenkins’s experimentation with rotoscoping, first used in Disney’s Snow White, and a way of tracing over live-action footage to create realistic movement. For a Ford project for Dunning, Jenkins had rotoscoped images of a live-action car depicted frame by frame in ever-changing paint-splash colours. And Dunning had loved it.
...For Yellow Submarine Jenkins’s contributions would include the opening scene of Eleanor Rigby, the journey of the submarine through time and space as it leaves Liverpool, and the animated sequences of Only a Northern Song and All Together Now at the film’s end. The rotoscoping technique would become his signature.
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Harris Dickinson reveals why playing John Lennon in four The Beatles movies is a "dream" – but with challenges - RadioTimes
The films will also star Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, with a lengthy shoot having got under way during the summer.
Some reports have suggested that the filming process will take as long as 15 months ahead of the simultaneous release of all four films in 2028, but Dickinson has by no means been put off by the huge commitment required to take part.
"[ It’s] inevitably longer, but I think that's what you want as an actor," he explained. "You wanna be able to spend a good amount of time on something and get a good opportunity to really invest in it properly. That's kind of the dream.”
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