Quite possibly my favourite animated film of all time, despite The Beatles not even bothering to voice-act their own characters. The film itself is fairly crudely animated for the most part (the sections in which the animation style changes temporarily are generally much nicer to watch and more interesting artistically), and the storyboards are equally rough and ready. They have an almost funny-pages quality to them, with sound effects drawn in the frames, and fairly detailed characters rendered on empty backgrounds (just like much of the film). I especially like the vague notes like "Ringo tells John what they're about"
Perhaps for the small studio that made the film these basic images were enough - Heinz Edelmann's psychedelic art direction was very clear, the character models fairly basic and the actual animation very limited, so maybe the animators only needed rough instruction. Another photo from the studio shows a wall of coloured and more detailed thumbnails, so we can also assume that these line drawings may be preliminary sketches.
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