Magical Mystery Tour Part 1

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1968

Creator: The Beatles

Complete Record: The film begins with a group of people on a British charabanc bus tour. The passengers include Mr. Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr), his recently widowed Auntie Jessie (Jessie Robins), the tour director Jolly Jimmy Johnson (Derek Royle), the tour hostess Miss Wendy Winters (Mandy Weet), conductor Buster Bloodvessel (Ivor Cutler), and the other Beatles. During the course of the tour, "strange things begin to happen" at the whim of "four or five magicians", four of whom are played by The Beatles themselves and the fifth by road manager Mal Evans. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race at a British army recruit office in which each tour group member employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people have a long bike they pedal, while Ringo ends up beating them all with the bus). During the tour, Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays eccentric and disturbing behavior. Part 1 ends with the group on the bus after an impromptu performance in a field by the beatles. The film is punctuated by musical interludes, which include The Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road, and the Bonzo DOG Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes's "Death Cab For Cutie", sung by Stanshall.