WASHINGTON — Ron Campbell’s animation career was in full swing in 1964, with cartoon credits including Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat, when the phone rang in the middle of the night. “It was (producer) ...

The deal that put the Beatles into the movies called for them to make three films for United Artists. But after the commercial and critical success of A Hard Day's Night in 1964 and the ...

I grew up in a Beatles family. My Dad was at their first American press conference in 1964. He and my mother loved their music, the only rock band they liked, as did my older brothers and sister, who ...

Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated musical featuring The Beatles and their music. The plot centers around The Beatles saving the citizens of Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, who drain the town of ...

When artist Ron Campbell was contacted in 1964 by King Features producer Al Brodax to direct an animated cartoon show about The Beatles, he said, “Insects make terrible characters for children’s ...

Even amid the current advances in animation and technology-driven art, The Beatles' classic full-length animated film Yellow Submarine remains an iconic cinematic achievement. The movie was more than ...

Once upon a time — or maybe twice — there was a gloriously colorful and strange film called “Yellow Submarine.” The 1968 cartoon helped usher The Beatles out of an odd, hectic period for the band and ...

Excepting five minutes near the tail end of the film, the Beatles are nowhere to be found in The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. The Fab Four make a cameo appearance as their live-action selves to do some ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Ron Campbell never met the Beatles but his art career is forever intertwined with the Fab Four's. The Emmy-nominated animator began his 50-year career directing the popular Beatles ...

London — The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on June 5th in North America. The film’s songtrack album will be ...

Robert Balser, an animator who co-directed the cartoon sequences of the Beatles‘ 1968 musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine, passed away January 4th at a Los Angeles hospital following complications ...

Ron Campbell helped animate The Beatles cartoons and 'Yellow Submarine' http://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/roncampbellcompressed.mp3 WASHINGTON — Ron ...