Inside the Yellow Submarine

by Robert R. Hieronimus and Laura E. Cortner

A work suitable for those who are interested in the clash between the gentle citizens of 'Pepperland' and the hated 'Blue Meanies' who threatened to rob the world of its color and music. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873493605
• ISBN13: 9780873493604
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Finding, and Reuniting Officers and Crew of The Musical Sub

"Inside the Yellow Submarine" is a marvelous compendium of first person interviews with the Sub's chief creative officers. Anyone interested in learning about the design and creation of the Yellow Submarine, as well as the adventure we the crew had in the Sub's construction, is well advised to buy Dr. Bob's intricate and dedicated chronicle.As Dr. Bob has mentioned, the untold story behind this unique motion picture intrigued him, as it has many of YS's fans for decades.During those decades I firmly believed somewhere, someday, someone with the necessary energy, determination, organizational powers, breadth of insight and boundless curiosity would investigate the entire 'back story'. This is Dr. Bob's first volume about a voluminous subject, and what he has achieved here is a hurculean work in unearthing the answers to many 'lost' mysteries about the film's genesis.This seminal book has served not only to open dialog and solve many mysteries about Yellow Submarine, but it has happily led to locating and reuniting many of we crew members.Following our completing production, we all dispersed across the globe, many going on to launch our own animation studios and animation training schools.The tremendously original creative splash Yellow Submarine made at the time (1968), sent out such graphic tsunami waves worldwide, it influenced pop art culture itself; resonating undercurrents and surface highlights from YS are discernible in today's digital animation productions.YS was a trailblazer opening new graphic directions for mainstream animation entertainment, just as the Beatles did musically.Dr. Bob's book is far more than an excellent collection of remarkable first-person interviews, it sheds much needed light on many facets of the creative genius and innovative spirit involved in the film's creation, by a team of artists who, in the words of the late director, George Dunning, "Were brought together from all over the world and who seemed to be at a peak in their creative powers". (Chuck Jones/PBS 1980's memorium to George Dunning).If you're at all interested in animation, its history, trends and processes--and particularly if you've wondered about the creative people involved in it's construction and launching, this book (and hopefully subsequent volumes yet to come!) is a 'Must Have' for your reference shelf; be it innovative animation or inspiring creativity.Addendum: Apparently YS has found an entirely new audience today among children. A creation of the '60's consciousness and regarded somewhat askance by the so-called 'Establishment', with secondary references and meanings ascribed to it (like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland'); today it's being enjoyed as what it essentially is: a bright, colorful, musical fairy tale with hilariously funny villains, and a happy ending.

Like a communal diary from the Yellow Sub

I've always been curious about this film and what the people were like who were behind the curtain. It's been well documented elsewhere that The Beatles didn't make this film, but I never read much about this crazy group of artists in the swinging London of the 1960s who did. Finally, in this book, we get to hear what these creative people thought about while they developed the revolutionary ideas that went into this film. And unlike many other authors of Beatles-related books, who tend to focus on the glamour of The Beatles' personalities instead of the work itself, Dr. Bob Hieronimus does not skimp with the quotes from my new heroes, the struggling artists who brought Yellow Sub from concept to screen. The book reads like a communal diary from all the participants. The absorbing style is largely comprised of first-hand accounts from the film's creators, organized in such a clever way, with just enough commentary between, to allow readers to reach their own conclusions of who among the film's creators were Blue Meanies and who were Pepperlanders. I, for one, wouldn't want to miss one word of them. It's about time they had a chance to tell their own story and be given a stage to do so.

A surprising page turner!

With INSIDE THE YELLOW SUBMARINE, Dr. Robert Hieronimus has fashioned a captivating adventure that will appeal to far more than just Beatles completists or animation fans. I was thrilled at the inclusion of many, many pre-film design sketches, which I'm pretty sure have never been seen anywhere else before! As for the other reviewer on this site complaining about the color section, I read an interview with the author in a UK publication called "Record Collector" saying Apple did not want him to use any previously unpublished artwork, for reasons of their own. Maybe we will see an official coffee-table style "picture book" from them in the future! If so, there's still no way any other book will ever come close to containing the extraordinary detail that Hieronimus has compiled into INSIDE THE YELLOW SUBMARINE. This book does not suffer in the least from a lack of illustrations. There is one on almost every page and they are all large and well reproduced. I for one was very pleased to learn who the faces were behind this film, and thanks to the extraordinary effort of Dr. Robert Hieronimus, they are no longer anonymous!

Very detailed and highly recommended

So you thought you knew a lot about the Yellow Submarine. Think again. This book puts you into a whole new dimension. One of the cold hard facts and the blood, sweat and tears that went into making one of my all time favorite animated movies ever! Dr. Robert, did an exceptional job in putting this fantastic and utterly fascinating book togehter. I was only sad to read that he was never given a chance to actually interview each of the Beatles about the movie in depth, but even this did not stop him from moving ahead and writing one of the all time best and probably the only detailed book of its kind in relation to Yellow Submarine. Highly recommended.

A Luminous Ride on The Yellow Submarine

Inside the Yellow Submarine: the Making of the Beatles' Animated Classic is a remarkable combination of scholarship and love. Created out of the almost endless efforts of American writer, radio personality and muralist, Bob Hieronimus, Inside the Yellow Submarine pulses with the unseen vibrancy, conflict and ultimate triumph which give birth to every successful artistic endeavor.Even today Yellow Submarine stands as a groundbreaking work of creativity, playfulness and opalescence. When I first sat through it in 1968, I didn't know whether I'd been transported back to my preteen years or thrust forward into an unimaginably different future full of possibilities and hues I could never have otherwise imagined. But, like the Beatles' reality-wrenching musical odyssey, Yellow Submarine inexorably welcomed its viewers deep into a psyche of boundless possibility--a field of unlimited imagination which now lives freely in the everyday world and on the hard drive of every computer.In the same energetic as the movie's creators, Bob Hieronimus breaks hectares of new ground in his work. Combining artistry and the dogged research of a forensic historian, Hieronimus lets you into the ideologies and passions that allowed an underpaid band of stubborn artists to subvert a corporate monolith and produce one of history's great works of animated creation.Perhaps, in this dark millenium of unbridled, let-them-eat-cake capitalism, the lessons so boldly painted in The Making of the Yellow Submarine may point the way to a new era where we find a greater vision which can rout today's Blue Meanies and everyone can again remember that Love IS All You Need.