The Beatles at Shea Stadium

Infobox Film
name = The Beatles at Shea Stadium


imdb_id =
director =
writer =
starring = John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Ed Sullivan
producer = Ed Sullivan Productions
NEMS Enterprises
Subafilms
music = The Beatles
cinematography =
distributor =
released = May 1, 1966 (BBC Television)
runtime = 50 min.
language = English
preceded_by = "Help!"
followed_by = "Magical Mystery Tour"

"The Beatles at Shea Stadium" is an fifty minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York. The documentary was produced by Ed Sullivan (under his Sullivan Productions, Inc. banner), NEMS Enterprises Ltd. (which owns the 1965 copyright), and the Beatles company Subafilms Ltd. The project utilized twelve cameras to capture the mayhem and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965. The documentary first aired on the BBC on May 1, 1966. It aired in the United States on ABC on January 10, 1967

The film is not a completely candid concert film, however, as overdubs recorded by the Beatles in London in January 1966 to cover audio problems throughout the concert recording, the documentary aired in the United States in 1966 on the ABC television network, and has been widely available on the bootleg circuit for decades. television film starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) that initially aired on BBC1 on December 26 1967. Upon its initial showing, the film was poorly received by critics and audiences.