13 November, 1968 - Yellow Submarine Premieres in New York 

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When The Beatles' spectacular feature, Yellow Submarine, debuted in 1968, it was instantly recognisable as a landmark film.

By merging the visual splendour of animation with a fantasy-adventure tale filled with peace, love, hope and of course, music, Yellow Submarine captured the essence of the Sixties.

And by integrating the freestyle approach of the era with innovative animation techniques, it revolutionised a genre.

It is wonderful, a beautifully realized animation flick, and although the voices are not those of the real Beatles, the sentiments and puns could belong only to them, Ringo saving the Nobody Man from his nothing-world at the last minute; George lost behind a door within, without... The film is all about love, or Love, or maybe LOVE and how love saves all, all you need, is love.

Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 15 November 1968