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Paul McCartney was filmed listening to a playback of a song with
Mary Hopkin, an Apple artist for a promotional film about Apple. The film was directed by
Tony Bramwell and shot on 16mm film. It was filmed for promotional use and not public broadcast. It also included footage of
The Beatles having a business meeting with
Dick James in the Apple office on 95 Wigmore Street. It also included Paul playing
Blackbird on an acoustic guitar, at one point even playing
Helter Skelter. It also had footage of
Alexis Mardas, AKA
Magic Alex, head of Apple Electronics. There were no shoot dates documented for these scenes, though Bramwell remembered shooting Paul's "Blackbird" sequence about two days after it was recorded (making the filming date
June 13). The film was shown in it's entirety on only three occasions. It was shown to
Capitol Records executives on
June 21, it was shown again later that day at a Capitol sales convention in Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles, and it was last shown on
August 26, by
Derek Taylor to an
EMI sales conference. Part of the Blackbird sequence, however, was inclued in The Beatles Anthology TV series.
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