The Beatles considered the song for inclusion in their 1967 TV film "Magical Mystery Tour". Instead, they selected it later that year for the soundtrack to the "Yellow Submarine" animated film, to meet their contractual obligations to supply United Artists with four new songs for the project. The version used in that 1968 film was a heavily edited version of the track, shortened to 2:22 through the inclusion of two of the original song's four verses and only the start of the long coda.