Dawn Swane’s silent footage of The Beatles appeared on the internet
Production designer Melinda Doring has donated to the Australian National Film and Sound Archive a unique collection of home movies and video recordings by her mother, dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane. The footage includes a never-before-seen 1965 clip of The Beatles, reports NFSA.
According to the source, the silent footage was made before filming The Music of Lennon & McCartney in the make-up chair at Granada TV, 1 and 2 November 1965.
“I was in the make-up room. And so we were having some champagne … And anyway, I don’t know if it was John or if it was Ringo but they took the camera off me and said, “This is no way to use a camera”, and they sort of jiggled it upside down and inside out a bit, and everybody was just mucking around. But that was great. I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were,” Dawn says.