![]() He took the job to work on Yellow Submarine figuring it would last maybe two months but remained in London for roughly a year.Īs Edelmann remembered, “I wasn’t nervous at first because I assumed I was going to learn from professionals. ![]() In 1966 he made animated cartoons for the TV series Schaumagazin on the German TV network WDR. He began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer for theatre posters, and German advertising.įrom 1961 – 1969 he was a regular illustrator and cover designer for the internationally renowned youth magazine twen as well as supplying illustrations for other magazines like Playboy. John, author of In His Own Write, emerges from a classic literary creation and Ringo is pictured as his inimitable self, wandering winsomely by the shore in Liverpool just as he did in A Hard Day’s Night (1964).”Įdelmann was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. George appears out of a haze of Transcendental Meditation, the mystic philosophy he popularized. ![]() Paul is introduced as a ‘Mod Mozart’ playing serious music in a museum. “Each of The Beatles is characterized by a well-known part of his personality naturally. George walks like a cowboy Paul like a confident young executive John like a showman and Ringo like a schoolboy Charlie Chaplin. George, John and Paul move at 32 frames per second while Ringo – the shortest – plods along at 24. He explained, “A walk formula was necessary to maintain (The Beatles’) characters. After that, everybody contributed.”Įdelmann was hugely influential in all aspects of the design of the film and the characters. Edelmann later said, “I devised a one page, cobbled-up plot – nothing terrifically original – ‘Pepperland’ vs. Heinz EdelmannDirector of animation Bob Balser told author Robert Hieronimus, “Probably the most important person on the film was Heinz Edelmann who came up with the concept of the Blue Meanies that didn’t exist when the film started.”Įdelmann who was artistic director on the film stated, “At the time, I was heavily into monsters and I had just sat down for an afternoon and did them all.” Supposedly, he designed the Blue Meanies over a weekend originally intending them to be red but an assistant coloured them blue. The whole phrase ‘blue meanie’ which is now a general kind of term was a Heinz Edelmann creation.” The only confirmed contribution from Lennon was a suggestion during a drunken 3am phone call to Brodax that it might be funny to have the Yellow Submarine following Ringo down a narrow street.Īnimator Alan Ball recalled, “If I remember rightly, the vacuum cleaner monster was on Heinz’s original concept drawing before the film got underway. ![]() It is documented that The Beatles were not very involved at all with the production and tried to distance themselves from it until they finally saw a rough cut of the final film. There are the Blue Meanies… You can see that this was his style.” Lennon’s paramour, May Pang stated, “It was a sore point for him because a lot of those characters were based on things that he had drawn himself. They just took them and never credited it.” And I said that could be a monster that sucks. In an interview for Playboy magazine January 1981, Lennon said, “They said, have you got any monsters? I said, ‘Yeah, there’s Horace the vacuum cleaner in the swimming pool’ which was a thing you could buy and it went ‘round the pool sucking up things, you know. You gave me no credit.” Lennon felt that he was the one who came up with the idea for the vacuum cleaner monster and the Blue Meanies. This statement disputes all other evidence that originally the song was called Hey Bullfrog and only changed when Lennon laughed at Paul McCartney’s barking like a dog and so decided to change it during the recording session.īeatle John Lennon confronted Brodax and yelled, “You stole my ideas. ![]() He also said that Lennon wrote the song Hey Bulldog as a tribute to him since he was at the time a professor at Yale whose mascot was a bulldog. Scripter Erich Segal said he was the one who came up with the Blue Meanies. Animators on the film claim that the character more closely acted like Brodax. He also claimed the chief Blue Meanie was modelled after production coordinator Abe Goodman. However, in the case of the animated feature Yellow Submarine (1968), it really is a crazy quilt of different people taking credit for the same things.įor instance, in the case of the Blue Meanies, producer Al Brodax has insisted that the idea came from screenwriter Lee Minoff who “originally called them Monstrous Blues”. If you want to be a good animation historian, it is important to go to primary sources and also try to get comments from the people who were actually involved. ![]()
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