The Beatles in film film was shot in exotic locations (such as Salisbury Plain, with Stonehenge visible in the background; the Bahamas; Salzburg and the Austrian Alps) in the style of a "Mr. Magoo" spoof along with even more Marx Brothers-style zaniness: For example, the film is dedicated "to Elias Howe, who, in 1846, invented the sewing machine." It was the first Beatles film filmed in colour. The Magical Mystery Tour film was essentially McCartney's idea, which was thought up as he returned from a trip to the U.S. in the late spring of 1967, and was loosely inspired by press coverage McCartney had
The Beatles in film a Western film written by Richard Condon; "Shades of a Personality"; film versions of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Three Musketeers" starring the group (although Richard Lester, who directed the group's first two movies, went on to direct his own version of "The Three Musketeers" in 1973), and a script by playwright Joe Orton called "Up Against It". Robert Zemeckis was planning a remake of the film "Yellow Submarine" with motion capture technology but it was cancelled in 2011. The Beatles have been the subject of a number of documentary films. Several fictional films not depicting The Beatles