A Hard Day's Night question

[Sheriff John Stone]

For you Beatles' experts out there....I'm watching A Hard Day's Night right now, and there's something I've wondered. On a couple of the songs in the movie, "If I Fell" and "And I Love Her" to name two, they sound slowed down. Did they simply slow down the masters? If yes, why? Or, were they new recordings for the movie? If yes to that, why were they slowed down?

[SG7]

There's def a difference between the AHDN on DVD and the older VHS copy I have sound wise. I never did notice that towards the end! Could have been slowed down.

[richardsnow]

i recall reading about this many years ago. The reason is (if I can remember clearly) is something to do with them shooting the movie with those TV studio monitors on show all the time.   Apparantly if you shoot normal 24fps on a tv screen you get that strange strobing effect. So I think they shot the studio parts of the movie were shot slight faster to avoid that glitch. The side effect being that when the movis is shown anywhere at the standard 24 fps the songs are slightly slow.

[pixletwin]

The film version of And I Love Her isn't slowed down but it does have a single track vocal from Paul (as opposed to the double tracked vocal on the album). For If I Fell it sounds like they may have slowed it down a semitone in order to fit the performance footage.

[richardsnow]

All the Tv studio stuff is slowed down. Check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYcaY7uh_E
The 1st chord appears to be Fm. When it's actually F#m on the released correct speed version.