"It has a freedom of color and invention that never tires, and it takes a delight in visual paradoxes."
YELLOW SUBMARINE CARTOON UNDERWATER BEATLES MOVIE
isn't full motion and usually remains within one plane, but there's nothing stiff or limited about it," Roger Ebert wrote when the movie was restored in 1999. If you freeze-frame it, you can see some of the brilliant tricks they came up with." The sequence where the sub takes off from the pier and appears to travel rapidly through all sorts of live-action settings, including a park where a statue of a military man astride a horse appears to tip his hat to you, was all done using postcards. "They used media no one had ever thought of using in animation. "The artists and directors used techniques no one had ever used before, and haven't since," he told the Guardian in 2012.
Josh Weinstein, who was a writer and producer for The Simpsons in the '90s, marveled at its technical innovations. The Beatles leave Liverpool in the submarine and undergo a series of surreal adventures to get to Pepperland, including going back and forward in time, fighting off a monster and befriending a lovable creature named Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D, who eventually helps them emerge victorious. An aged sailor, Old Fred, escapes and takes off in the submarine to Liverpool, where he convinces the Beatles to defeat the Blue Meanies. It then comes under attack from the from the music-hating Blue Meanies, who freeze all of its inhabitants. Minoff's story is set in Pepperland, an underwater music-filled utopia protected by Sgt.
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