See Previously Unseen Beatles Footage Published By National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have published previously unseen footage of The Beatles getting ready for a television performance.

The NFSA found the 49 second silent video shot by Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane in 1965. Ms Swane was working for Granada TV in Manchester when the video was shot on 1 November 1965.

Dawn Swane said: ‘I was in the makeup room, and we were having some champagne […] I don’t know if it was John or if it was Ringo, but they took the camera off me and said, “This is no way to use a camera” and they sort of jiggled it upside down and inside out a bit, and everybody was just mucking around. But that was great. I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were’.

Ms Swane’s home videos were donated to the NFSA by her daughter Melinda Doring.

Other highlights from this collection include footage of a very young Michael Caine on the set of the TV drama The Other Man. At the time Dawn claimed that ‘mascara gave [Caine] his sex appeal’, and that Ringo ‘always insists on a hair wash before the show starts’. She shared these and other celebrity stories in The Australian Women’s Weekly dated 22 February 1967