Never-before-seen lost footage of Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ found

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The Beatles shooting their 1967 cult classic “Magical Mystery Tour” movie has been unearthed.The clips show the Fab Four and their wives on-set in between takes, children hanging around and an airplane flying overhead.

It also contains snippets from the magicians’ sequence and shows the group organizing the ballroom spectacular, which was used as the finale of the film.

The behind-the-scenes shots were captured by a man who visited the set in West Malling with his young daughter. Memorabilia specialist company Tracks Limited, based in Lancaster, UK, acquired the film from a woman in Essex whose father shot the footage and finally decided to part with the film.

Tracks Limited plans to auction off the footage and the rights on its website. It is estimated to be valued between $3,500 and $6,000. “Nothing has turned up in about 20 years so it is a rare find,” Paul Wane from Tracks Limited told the South West News Service.