Yellow Submarine

A bright, yellow boat that looks more like an oversized bathtub toy than an oceangoing vessel pulled into the Annapolis City Marina yesterday, carrying Seiko Nakajima and his tales of a trans-Atlantic voyage."

HEINZ EDELMANN, 75 " Yellow Submarine" designer Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died Tuesday afternoon in a Stuttgart, Germany, hospital, according to the city's State Academy of Art and Design, where he had worked as a professor until 1999. No cause of death was given. Born in Aussig in the former Czechoslovakia in 1934, Mr. Edelmann studied at the Duesseldorf Art Academy and became a freelance graphic designer in 1958.

It's about time that "Yellow Submarine," the 1968 film starring the music of the Beatles and some of the trippiest animation ever to emerge from the psychedelic era, was re-released in a buffed-up version. Few movies are worthier of visual and aural restoration, or of finding a new generation of fans.This Pop masterpiece, whose original stereo sound has been re-mixed to fit a Dolby 5.1 world and whose colors have been brightened and tweaked to their original spectacular richness, looks as fresh and ingenious as the day it was first released.

Classic film screenings continue at the Senator Theatre this weekend with Carol Reed's magnificent The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist visiting postwar Vienna, where he learns that his good friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), has died. Or has he? Gorgeous (Robert Krasker won an Oscar for his stark black-and-white cinematography) and witty, the 1949 movie includes a great monologue from one of the principals in which we learn the connection between Western morality and the cuckoo clock.

When it comes to yellow submarines, Bob Hieronimus has done just about everything but live in one.A native Baltimorean whose murals and painted cars made him one of the city's more prominent counterculture figures in the 1960s, Hieronimus has taken on the roots of teacher, founder of a school for the study of metaphysics and mystic arts, and, since 1988, radio-show host (his :21st Century Radio" airs weekdays from 10 p.m. to midnight on WCBM-AM.But one of the constants over all those years has been a fascination with "Yellow Submarine," a 1968 animated film "starring" the Beatles and their songs (more on that later)

HEINZ EDELMANN, 75 " Yellow Submarine" designer Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died Tuesday afternoon in a Stuttgart, Germany, hospital, according to the city's State Academy of Art and Design, where he had worked as a professor until 1999. No cause of death was given. Born in Aussig in the former Czechoslovakia in 1934, Mr. Edelmann studied at the Duesseldorf Art Academy and became a freelance graphic designer in 1958.

Many Baltimore film-goers assume that the Senator and Charles theaters -- both locally owned and both dedicated to showing classier fare than the usual megaplex -- are engaged in cutthroat competition.In reality, the theaters' owners cooperate more often than not, to which the case of "Yellow Submarine" attests. The 1968 classic of Beatles tunes, psychedelic graphics and a whimsically humane message opened at the Senator last weekend to large and appreciative audiences. So Kiefaber faced something of a quandary when Dreamworks said they were sending him "American Beauty" one week early.

It's Saturday night at An Die Musik in Towson. The store'sneon light squirts peacock blue into the night while we flip through CDs.An 11-year-old I happen to know well is fingering the Beatles collection. ''I'd like to buy one of these. How about 'Rubber Soul'?''I first heard the Beatles at a tea party -- in South America. Joy had come home from boarding school in England. Her mother served tea in painted China cups. A huge Christmas cake filled with rum, raisins and thick globs of icing, ''just like snow,'' they said, was set on a silver platter by the tea things.

Classic film screenings continue at the Senator Theatre this weekend with Carol Reed's magnificent The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist visiting postwar Vienna, where he learns that his good friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), has died. Or has he? Gorgeous (Robert Krasker won an Oscar for his stark black-and-white cinematography) and witty, the 1949 movie includes a great monologue from one of the principals in which we learn the connection between Western morality and the cuckoo clock.

A two-time Oscar winner and four lads from Liverpool will be on the big screen at Baltimore's Senator Theatre this week, as owner Tom Kiefaber continues to mark the coming end of his family's 70-year run as operators of the city's last vintage, single-screen movie house. John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean stars Paul Newman as what, in the loosest of possible terms, could be called a frontier lawman. The 1972 farce turns the traditional notion of Western justice administered by tough, moral lawmen on its ear - Newman's Bean is a no-account crook until events in southwest Texas conspire to back up his whims and foibles with the force of law. (Roy Bean was a genuine historical figure who billed himself as "The Law West of the Pecos," but Huston's film makes few claims to historical accuracy.

A two-time Oscar winner and four lads from Liverpool will be on the big screen at Baltimore's Senator Theatre this week, as owner Tom Kiefaber continues to mark the coming end of his family's 70-year run as operators of the city's last vintage, single-screen movie house. John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean stars Paul Newman as what, in the loosest of possible terms, could be called a frontier lawman. The 1972 farce turns the traditional notion of Western justice administered by tough, moral lawmen on its ear - Newman's Bean is a no-account crook until events in southwest Texas conspire to back up his whims and foibles with the force of law. (Roy Bean was a genuine historical figure who billed himself as "The Law West of the Pecos," but Huston's film makes few claims to historical accuracy.

Yellow Submarine is the 1968 cartoon movie in which the Beatles travel the deep seas to Pepperland, where Sgt. Pepper's Band is being held captive by the Blue Meanies. The Fab Four appear as themselves briefly, at the end. The film is a classic -- and a hot book subject nowadays is how the famous films, one by one, came to be made. Robert R. Hieronimus began assembling Yellow Submarine material in the 1970s; now his book, Inside the Yellow Submarine (Krause, 432 pages, $24.95) is out. So let listeners to Dr. Bob and his wife Zoh, hosts of a long-running futurist and environmentalist radio program, make whoopee: The book, based on interviews with dozens of people from the original film crew, is good stuff -- lively, insightful and authoritative.

When it comes to yellow submarines, Bob Hieronimus has done just about everything but live in one.A native Baltimorean whose murals and painted cars made him one of the city's more prominent counterculture figures in the 1960s, Hieronimus has taken on the roots of teacher, founder of a school for the study of metaphysics and mystic arts, and, since 1988, radio-show host (his :21st Century Radio" airs weekdays from 10 p.m. to midnight on WCBM-AM.But one of the constants over all those years has been a fascination with "Yellow Submarine," a 1968 animated film "starring" the Beatles and their songs (more on that later)

Many Baltimore film-goers assume that the Senator and Charles theaters -- both locally owned and both dedicated to showing classier fare than the usual megaplex -- are engaged in cutthroat competition.In reality, the theaters' owners cooperate more often than not, to which the case of "Yellow Submarine" attests. The 1968 classic of Beatles tunes, psychedelic graphics and a whimsically humane message opened at the Senator last weekend to large and appreciative audiences. So Kiefaber faced something of a quandary when Dreamworks said they were sending him "American Beauty" one week early.

It's about time that "Yellow Submarine," the 1968 film starring the music of the Beatles and some of the trippiest animation ever to emerge from the psychedelic era, was re-released in a buffed-up version. Few movies are worthier of visual and aural restoration, or of finding a new generation of fans.This Pop masterpiece, whose original stereo sound has been re-mixed to fit a Dolby 5.1 world and whose colors have been brightened and tweaked to their original spectacular richness, looks as fresh and ingenious as the day it was first released.

The BeatlesYellow Submarine Songtrack (Capitol 21481)What's the difference between a soundtrack and a songtrack?At first glance, the answer seems obvious: A soundtrack is an album of music from a motion picture, whereas a songtrack is a silly word somebody made up. Simple enough.But in the case of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, the term "songtrack" actually makes some sense, at least on the marketing end. Because what people tend to remember most about the musical moments from the 1968 feature-length cartoon was the way the animators translated such classics as "Sgt.

Yellow Submarine is the 1968 cartoon movie in which the Beatles travel the deep seas to Pepperland, where Sgt. Pepper's Band is being held captive by the Blue Meanies. The Fab Four appear as themselves briefly, at the end. The film is a classic -- and a hot book subject nowadays is how the famous films, one by one, came to be made. Robert R. Hieronimus began assembling Yellow Submarine material in the 1970s; now his book, Inside the Yellow Submarine (Krause, 432 pages, $24.95) is out. So let listeners to Dr. Bob and his wife Zoh, hosts of a long-running futurist and environmentalist radio program, make whoopee: The book, based on interviews with dozens of people from the original film crew, is good stuff -- lively, insightful and authoritative.

Q: I will be traveling to London this summer, and as a Beatles fan I am interested in poking through Beatles memorabilia, especially fanzines of the early '60s. Could you tell me where I might find some?A: A treasure trove of Beatlemania is to be found at Vinyl Experience, a record shop in central London. And if you are in England in August and want to travel up to Liverpool, you can catch the 13th annual celebration of the Beatles called the Merseybeatle Festival.At Vinyl Experience, three display cabinets on the second floor contain such items as bubble gum cards, Beatles fan club cards, Beatles socks and the original yellow submarine toy produced as a tie-in with the animated classic "Yellow Submarine."

Q: I will be traveling to London this summer, and as a Beatles fan I am interested in poking through Beatles memorabilia, especially fanzines of the early '60s. Could you tell me where I might find some?A: A treasure trove of Beatlemania is to be found at Vinyl Experience, a record shop in central London. And if you are in England in August and want to travel up to Liverpool, you can catch the 13th annual celebration of the Beatles called the Merseybeatle Festival.At Vinyl Experience, three display cabinets on the second floor contain such items as bubble gum cards, Beatles fan club cards, Beatles socks and the original yellow submarine toy produced as a tie-in with the animated classic "Yellow Submarine."

A bright, yellow boat that looks more like an oversized bathtub toy than an oceangoing vessel pulled into the Annapolis City Marina yesterday, carrying Seiko Nakajima and his tales of a trans-Atlantic voyage."