{"id":13979,"date":"2013-07-06T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13979"},"modified":"2013-07-06T03:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T02:20:50","slug":"the-running-jumping-standing-still-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/07\/06\/the-running-jumping-standing-still-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Running Jumping &#038; Standing Still Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wd8zi5KuyJc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lester1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lester1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Beatles&#8217; second feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeatles.com\/#\/films\/Help\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Help!<\/em><\/a>, was released on Blu-ray last month. The origin of the film&#8217;s visual humour and frenetic style can be found in this short directed by Richard Lester over two weekends in 1959, a collaboration between Lester, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and others. It may be nothing more than ten minutes of sight gags but it was enough for The Beatles to seek out Lester as director of their first two features. (Leo McKern, the actor in the opening shot, also appears in <em>Help!<\/em>) Considering the subsequent influence of those films\u2014from The Monkees&#8217; TV show on into numerous pop videos\u2014this little film is very influential indeed. Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wd8zi5KuyJc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wd8zi5KuyJc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lester2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lester2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/13\/petulia-film-posters\/\">Petulia film posters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatles&#8217; second feature, Help!, was released on Blu-ray last month. The origin of the film&#8217;s visual humour and frenetic style can be found in this short directed by Richard Lester over two weekends in 1959, a collaboration between Lester, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and others. It may be nothing more than ten minutes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/07\/06\/the-running-jumping-standing-still-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Running Jumping &#038; Standing Still Film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[4954,4953,2922,4952,178,2496],"class_list":["post-13979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-leo-mckern","tag-peter-sellers","tag-richard-lester","tag-spike-milligan","tag-the-beatles","tag-the-monkees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}