YELLOW SUBMARINE

One Sheet (27" x 41"); Withdrawn Style
Fine+ Folded; Artwork by Heinz Edelmann
United Artists, 1968

This is the classic one-sheet for Yellow Submarine, featuring the psychedelic animation style of Czech-German illustrator Heinz Edelmann. This style poster was replaced shortly after distribution, as it was quickly made clear that the Beatles only did eleven songs for the film, not the dozen as advertised on this poster. All of the larger format posters distributed have the correct number of eleven songs advertised there.

This poster with bright images has a handful of pinhole tears and holes in the upper area, with two reinforced on the back with tape. There is also some tiny sporadic separation at the ends of some horizontal and vertical folds, a small tear in the lower left border, and some light separation in the lower and upper center point cross folds. And while there is a stamp on the verso, there is no bleed-through.

A superb and colorful animated feature, Yellow Submarine contains some of the Beatles' biggest hits and far-out animation headed by Heinz Edelmann. Though the Fab Four sang the songs used in the film, actors supplied the voices of John, Paul, George, and Ringo in the non-musical segments.

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