The Beatles Let It Be Restored - Better Than Get Back?

I went to a late night screening of Let It Be at a local theater with a group of friends in 1978. For some reason, I decided to take my cassette recorder (much like Andrew’s) with me. I taped the entire film with audience reaction. I still have that cassette, and I really should digitize it and upload it to the internet. Also, around 1990 my local video store was liquidating its entire Betamax stock. Everything was a dollar each and I grabbed around a dozen movies. So glad I got a copy of Let It Be on Beta!

For all the expense and trouble to go through restoring Let It Be, there should be no excuse for not making it available on Blu-ray and DVD, It's The Beatles after all! Thanks for the review Andrew.

Incredible intro by 12 year old Andrew haha thanks for sharing

“SSH everyone, I’m recording this” 😊😊. I still remember when we got our first VHS and my parents wouldn’t talk when they were recording something in case it came out on the tape 🤦‍♀️😬. Thanks Andrew ❤

Even at a young age, you were "reporting" before your recording, rather than just taping it. A harbinger of things to come.

What is nice about the new edition of “Let It Be” is the full 4:3 ratio of the original 16mm elements. 35mm theatrical prints were hard matte cropped to 1.85:1, and it was one of these prints that was used for the home video releases on tape and laserdisc back in the day, being left/right cropped further to fit standard 4:3 CRT television screens, with opening and closing credits anamorphically squeezed in to fit the format, so a lot of film frame real estate was lost in the original home video releases.

The entire rooftop gig really should have had its own disc in the LIB super deluxe edition. After all, all the other sets have contained extensive recording sessions, and in the context of LIB, that's exactly what the rooftop gig was.

Andrew, after seeing so many other Beatles-centric YouTube channels, yours is the only one I have subscribed to and enjoy, watching always from beginning to end. You always give me what I want - a discussion of sound and/or visual quality, remaster and other improvements, along with comparisons to the originals. Being a Beatles fanatic, I enjoy your sharing of background information, which is never a re-telling of old stories or anecdotes that most true Beatles fans would already know, but mostly fascinating details that have rarely been mentioned. I am massively happy that "Let It Be" has finally been restored and re-released, and hope that Apple/Disney realize that a blu-ray release will not only give millions of Beatles fans something they've wanted for more than half a century, but will make them (the studios) a lot more money. Thank you for another enjoyable and enlightening video.

I haven't seen the newly restored version of Let It Be yet, but I'm very disappointed to learn that they did away with Paul's vocal adlib of Get Back at the end of the movie. That was actually the part of the song where it faded out on the 45, so it was always nice to get that little extra glimpse of where the song was going. That was a nice little introduction on the cassette tape. Even as a child, you sounded very professional. Well done!

I saw the film at a theater with a friend when it was released in 1970. I was 13. I remember being depressed because the news that The Beatles had broken up was already out and the theater in Trenton, New Jersey, where I saw the film was run down and closed only a few years later. Also, only a few people were in the theater, which made things even more depressing. I did enjoy the rooftop concert at the end, but my memory of the movie in general was that it was confusing and left me longing for the joy I always got from the group before. However, I really enjoyed the Get Back documentary and will give Let It Be a second chance. Thanks for another excellent video Andrew.

I have a memory of 'Let It Be' playing on BBC 2 on a Saturday lunch time around 1982! I certainly watched it on telly and was overcome, in my young mind, at the pathos within the film that wasn't necessarily detracting from the narrative. This BBC 2 showing was probably the last time it was shown till now!

And I'm still waiting for an extended edition of "Get Back".

It is amazing how you have kept so much cool stuff from your life as a fan. Makes me regretful about how much I've simply lost over the years. Great video yet again.

I saw Let It Be the week it came out in theaters, and then again in the eighties at a local film festival. I’ve never considered it a downer or sad. Quite the contrary, as the rooftop concert was the only thing we could talk about afterwards. That was a revelation. I love the remastered film and hope it receives a physical release. But the highlight of your video was hearing your cassette tape recording. Thanks for sharing that with us. And yes; I wish they had left the original ending.

1:19 The future YouTuber as a child in 1979.

I've been waiting for this release for years. I was waiting for the "Let It Be" lp to be released in 1970 with anticipation after "Abbey Road" had been such a smash but had to wait till the autumn of that year as I couldn't afford the box set. This release on Disney+ really does fill the hole. They should release a DVD and/or Blu-ray or I'm certain the counterfeiters will, just as they did with the "Rooftop Concert" LP. I've also been looking forward to your slant on the reissued film and I've not been disappointed. Thank you.

I've got to say that it was a joy to watch. I do not have Disney+ but watched it last Saturday at a friend of mine's house, it was our escape from all things Eurovision. I loved the restoration, PJ has done a fantastic job with it. Though I do like this movie, with the passage of time, I last saw it on the Beeb that Saturday afternoon in May '82 I have to say I do enjoy Get Back more, that was more in the documentary style, a kind of Documentary about a Documentary of the Beatles writing and rehearsing their next album/proposed stage show. I have this on DVD and watch it most Bank Holiday weekends, and I always spot something new with each viewing. But it is great to Have Let It Be here all restored to watch and enjoy. I do hope it get's a DVD/Blu-ray release (I'll buy it) But I really do think that Universal have missed a trick here and should consider a Cinema release, after all that's where it was originally seen in 1970, and I for one would love to see it up on the Silver Screen.

thank you, Andrew, for announcing some of your upcoming schedule. I look forward to hearing you speak on other bands and your archives are great. it'll take me a long time to finish watching these !

I remember that 79 Beatles Xmas No internet or video recording it was Xmas heaven.

the smile on your face as you talk about your young self recording the telly is really lovely