A closer look
The Beatles' iconic acid trip of a movie was animated on a budget so tight that the original artists used cheap, volatile paints. By the time preservationists tried to restore it in 1999, the colors had faded into a muddy, depressing mess. Technicians had to painstakingly reconstruct the psychedelic neon palette by hand, proving that cutting corners in the 1960s just creates highly tedious homework for nerds three decades later.





