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Videotapes and DVDs: The Beach Boys In London 1966 (2006)

86 minutes of silent footage shot by Peter Whitehead. About 18 minutes of this have circulated with sound and a voiceover by Marianne Faithful. (See below.)

Videotapes and DVDs: The Beach Boys In London 1966 (alt cover)

Totally silent (despite claims that it has a narrative by Keith Badman) though sound exists for some of it. The cover claims it is both "over 95" and 102 minutes in total duration; the DVD actually plays 86 minutes. Some of the footage is repeated, sometimes with the film flipped. The photography, probably meant to be arty, is so unfocused and zooms in and out so often it's hard to know what you're looking at. If only it had sound, though, it would still be pretty amazing.