{"id":2920,"date":"2024-08-08T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/product\/beatles-let-it-be-deluxe-widescreen-stereo-edition-ntsc-blu-ray\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:45:02","slug":"beatles-let-it-be-deluxe-widescreen-stereo-edition-ntsc-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/product\/beatles-let-it-be-deluxe-widescreen-stereo-edition-ntsc-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles – Let It Be (Original Deluxe Widescreen Stereo Edition) (1 NTSC Blu-Ray disc)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beatles – Let It Be (Original Deluxe Widescreen Stereo Edition)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let It Be is a filmed documentary of the Beatles rehearsing and recording their new album in 1969.\u00a0 The film culminated with a concert by the group set on the rooftop on their own Apple office building in London’s west end.\u00a0 Paul McCartney’s concept for the album and film was that it wasn’t going to have studio trickery like overdubs and effects.\u00a0 It was <\/span>“back to the roots”<\/em> with the Beatles performing the songs in a natural way.\u00a0 The film and it’s accompanying soundtrack was delayed while the Beatles recorded and released their final album “Abbey Road”.\u00a0 It was eventually released in 1970 and received an Academy Award for it’s title song.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Beatles completist and serious fans, the biggest frustration has been in not finding the “Beatles – Let It Be” in a complete, uncropped, great quality version. The reason for this is quite interesting. The original film was shot in 16mm (standard TV 4×3 format).\u00a0 However, when the film was released, they cropped the 16mm print by chopping off parts of the top and bottom and blew it up to 35mm widescreen. I myself wondered in the 70’s why the picture quality was so mediocre right in the movie theatre!\u00a0 Now we all know why.\u00a0 So even in the theatre, one did NOT<\/strong> get to see the full picture that was filmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then to add insult to injury, when Let It Be was released in the 1980’s on Beta and VHS videotape and on Laserdisc (all in standard TV 4×3 format), the manufacturers did NOT<\/strong> go back to the original 16mm film that was shot in the same format. INSTEAD<\/strong>, they sourced it from the 35mm widescreen theatre print and CHOPPED it AGAIN!<\/em><\/strong>, this time from the sides. So anyone purchasing previous Beta, VHS and Laserdisc versions of Let It Be, now got to see even LESS!<\/em><\/strong>, since it has now been chopped on all 4 sides.<\/span><\/p>\n

This recent WIDESCREEN, STEREO<\/strong> import Blu-Ray release rectifies a lot of the problems.\u00a0 For anyone that saw the film in the theatres in the 70’s, it is great now to be able to see the original theatrical release, in stereo AND<\/strong> in much improved quality, including clearer picture and more natural colours, the absolute best version you can find of this release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quality:\u00a0 <\/strong>Very good\u00a0quality, approximately an 8.5 (using our quality rating table located on our website).\u00a0 Audio quality is very good to excellent and now mainly in STEREO!<\/span><\/p>\n

Running Length:<\/strong>\u00a0 80 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disc Format:<\/strong>\u00a0 1 NTSC Blu-Ray BD-R disc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beatles – Let It Be (Original Deluxe Widescreen Stereo Edition) Let It Be is a filmed documentary of the Beatles rehearsing and recording their new album in 1969.\u00a0 The film culminated with a concert by the group set on the rooftop on their own Apple office building in London’s west end.\u00a0 Paul McCartney’s concept for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7609,10611,7607,19,10414],"product_tag":[128],"class_list":{"0":"post-2920","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-2024-new-arrivals","7":"product_cat-2024-10","8":"product_cat-50s-and-60s-rock-and-roll","9":"product_cat-all-blu-ray-discs","10":"product_cat-rock-and-roll-related-movies","11":"product_tag-beatles","12":"product_shipping_class-1-disc","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvideodvd.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}