Archives Collection
"A HARD DAY'S NIGHT"                                                                 90-057
SCRIPT (copy)
 

Physical description:

50 page mimeographed typescript.
 

Date:

July 1964.
 

Provenance:

Purchased from Paul Riseman, Springfield Illinois in April 1991.
 

Agency History:

Alan Owen wrote this script for "A Hard Day's Night", a 90 minute black and white feature film. The movie depicted a semi-fictional account of a day in the life of the Beatles and included eight songs written specifically for the film. The film, directed by Richard Lester and produced by Walter Shenson, premiered on 6 July 1964 at the London Pavilion, and was nominated for two Academy Awards that year.

from The Beatles A to Z (London, 1981), page 81.
 

Scope and Content:

A typed fifty page mimeographed editor's work sheet for the film "A Hard Day's Night which includes credits, dialogue, and frame descriptions and counters.
 

Location:

This item is filed by accession number with other manuscript collections.
 

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