Author: Jennifer Dyer

Our books are included in Cartoon Research’s hot-off-the-presses Animation History Bibliography.

You can even see Inside the Yellow Submarine and It’s All In The Mind: Inside The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, vol. 2 on their bookshelf!

Author Orrin Scott is an animation researcher who studies how we interact with animation as communication, commerce, art, and entertainment.

His goal in creating the Bibliography was to document every English language book on animation.

At 1,300-plus titles — and still growing — it documents over a century of publications on animation.

Learn more about the Animation History Bibliography

Co-hosts Lanea Stagg of The Recipe Records Series and Jude Southerland Kessler of The John Lennon Series sit down with noted authors Laura Cortner and Dr. Bob Hieronimus to discuss their new book, It’s All in the Mind: Inside The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. This is the second volume that the two superb researchers have published on the making of Yellow Submarine, the artists involved, and the work of Heinz Edelmann and Sir George Martin. You’ll enjoy  “insider” stories on the animators, the “backstage” pranks, the happy moments and rough patches that the crew experienced. And most of all, the artistry of this complex film is revealed. Once you hear this podcast, you’ll want to see the film again. 

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We talked with OpEdNews editor Meryl Ann Butler about the story, symbolism, and archetypes of Yellow Submarine and how they apply to us today.

“This is a movie that makes you feel good, inspires love and cooperation, and does so with a beat you can dance to. …. And if you look closely enough you can also find cosmic truths embedded in the messages and symbolism of this movie that can help you find your meaning and purpose in life.”

We also shared the origin story of LIGHT, the iconic Woodstock Bus, and its current tour to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and beyond. Meet us there on Saturday, May 21!

“The Woodstock LIGHT Bus symbolizes Woodstock, which in turn symbolizes the generation that shifted consciousness. Finding the light within and manifesting it without is the journey all humans share.”

Read on at OpEdNews about the Yellow Submarine’s impact on the collective unconscious and Pepperland made manifest at Woodstock

Thanks, Steve Matteo, for featuring It’s All In The Mind: Inside The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, vol. 2 in The Vinyl District’s Beatles Book Roundup.

We got an A!

Here’s an excerpt:

“… Dr. Robert Heronimus has written the definitive books on the film Yellow Submarine. ….

While the first book dove deep into the making of the film and all the aspects of the ancillary products surrounding it, it also revealed in detail who the people who involved with the film were. The new book goes even further about the people who worked on the film and brings their stories up to date.

These books go beyond mere history. Hieronimus and his team have been key players in the revitalization of the film and in celebrating the contributors who helmed the production as well as some of those forgotten over time.”

— Steve Matteo, The Vinyl District, March 31, 2022

Read the full review here.