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Ringo Starr March 1974

Title: Harry & Ringo`s Night Out
Type: Unfinished TV Special
Filming Location: Los Angeles, California
Filming Date: Mid March - April 1974
Broadcast Date: June 17th 1974
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 00:13 Seconds (excerpts)
Quality: A
Source: Who Is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everybody Talkin` About Him?) (Excerpts) (DVD Oct 2010)
Other Sources: "Ringo Starr Remastered Archives 1973-1974" (FAB Productions)

Notes: This was a unfinished film project starring Ringo and Harry Nilsson called "Harry and Ringo`s Night Out". It was filmed
in Los Angeles during March and April 1974. In the end only a 3 minute pilot was made and nothing more was filmed.

Tim Bruckner, who had painted the front cover for the "Ringo" album, was asked to write a script.He also drew the characters and
all the backgrounds for the animation sequences which took a couple of weeks to do.According to Tim, the story basically
involves Ringo and Harry being sucked into an alternate reality in a place called Rockland, populated by a bunch of famous rock
stars.Music is dying and these two were on a mission to save it. When they entered Rockland they acquired sidekicks. Ringo`s
was the cherub and Harry's was a wisecracking crow.Harry did the voice of the cherub and Ringo did the voice of the crow.

The live action sequence was filmed in just one day on a soundstage at Paramount Studios complete with bluescreen for the
animation sequences.Reportedly the "pilot" was actually premiered in June at a theatre in Beverley Hills.

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