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The Yellow Submarine book has landed in South Africa!

Animator Lawrence Moorcroft showing off his new Yellow Submarine cap that arrived with his copy of It’s All In The Mind.
Animator Lawrence Moorcroft shows off his new Yellow Submarine cap that arrived with his copy of It’s All In The Mind.
Facebook post: .... Bob, Laura, you really have to take a bow after your tremendous effort in getting this book printed. Well done! I am amazed at the wealth of 'inside info' you have discovered and included in the pages. The chapters on symbolism found in the film intrigued me no end. As I read these pages I was relieved that I had no inkling of the hidden meanings in the story, as I might have been intimidated enough by them that it could have affected my animation! Another strange phenomenon that I was experiencing while reading about myself, was as if I knew the person but it was not me. I became a sort of detached fictional character. Weird. I had to keep reminding myself that I was looking back at my life's history and that I should revel in it. Even heading towards 80, my mind is still relatively sharp, somewhat forgetful at times, but the Yellow Sub adventure back then, is something I have read about rather than having experienced first hand. Once again, congratulations to the whole team that produced the book that is lying next to me on the table. All the best from Africa. Lawrence and Allison.
See Lawrence’s post on Facebook

“…. Bob, Laura, you really have to take a bow after your tremendous effort in getting this book printed. Well done!

I am amazed at the wealth of ‘inside info’ you have discovered and included in the pages. The chapters on symbolism found in the film intrigued me no end. As I read these pages I was relieved that I had no inkling of the hidden meanings in the story, as I might have been intimidated enough by them that it could have affected my animation!

Another strange phenomenon that I was experiencing while reading about myself, was as if I knew the person but it was not me. I became a sort of detached fictional character. Weird. I had to keep reminding myself that I was looking back at my life’s history and that I should revel in it. Even heading towards 80, my mind is still relatively sharp, somewhat forgetful at times, but the Yellow Sub adventure back then, is something I have read about rather than having experienced first hand.

Once again, congratulations to the whole team that produced the book that is lying next to me on the table.

All the best from Africa.

Lawrence and Allison.”

Lawrence’s memories of Swinging London are captured in our book, like this one noting the Twiggy look and the Mary Quant fashions:

“Models used to be lovely voluptuous women and here comes this skinny thing the wind could blow over and everyone went, wow, something different. The Yellow Sub was an integral part of that, it was psychedelic colors, it wasn’t Disney funny bunnies, it was weird.”