A Hard Day's Night (The film)

From Wikiki.com:


The A Hard Day’s Night movie was a bit of an embarrassment for Capitol because when the film contract was originally drawn up in 1963, they still couldn’t give a toss about the Beatles’ product. Vee-Jay had just seen their first two singles flop out of sight, and the idea of wasting a load of money on some shit-arse British band made the Capitol big-wigs laugh out loud. So EMI signed the rights over to the film’s distributors – United Artists. By the time the movie came out in ‘64, however, the picture had changed dramatically. The Beatles were now the hottest property in showbiz, and United Artists had the rights to the soundtrack.

Fortunately, Capitol still had a get-out-of-jail-free card because UA could only market the songs as a soundtrack; and seeing as Capitol had sole distribution rights in the US, there was nothing to stop them releasing the songs in other formats (i.e. single and album tracks) – hence the head-butting battle between two of the biggest labels in the States.

Capitol’s plan was two-fold, 1) they would release six of the seven soundtrack songs on singles, and 2) they would include all of the movie songs on their forthcoming Something New LP. The first of these to go out was A Hard Day’s Night b/w I Should Have Known Better (which differed from the British release, because they had Things We Said Today on the back).

Here are a few video's from the film, you might watch at at 1:30 into If I Fell, George nearly falls into a speaker: