BEATLES FILM EDITOR - MISSING SINCE 1966

[superman]

Danny Williams a 21-year-old Harvard dropout who had recently moved to Manhattan, worked as a film editor on What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA in 1964. Other than that, there isn’t much known about the young man who, in 1966, borrowed his mother's car for a drive to the ocean ... and disappeared.

He’s “known” (sort of) to be “that nameless guy in the pictures next to Andy Warhol”. The guy no one seems to remember. Or, more than likely, the guy everyone wants to forget? The recent revelations about how some footage of the Beatles in the U.S. had been creatively edited to manipulate what people were seeing comes immediately to my mind.

There were also rumors that someone else was responsible for many of Warhol’s most famous works, and that Warhol was famous for taking both the credit and the money for this person’s ideas … which kind of makes me think of Mal Evans. Twenty of Danny’s films that he made have recently been discovered, but have yet to be made available to the public.

This mysterious young guy, who edited the Beatles footage in America, simply vanishes in 1966. There is no death certificate available for poor ole Danny. His car was found on the edge of a cliff leading out to sea, but no body was ever found on the rocks below it, or even in washed up from the surf.

Maybe he’s still alive and living beneath the waves …

Danny Williams’ neice made a documentary about her mysterious uncle called A Walk into the Sea

www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&id=2478&reviewid=VE1117932762&cs=1

[Jude]

Hmm. He doesn't look like Paul McCartney, but I'm sure someone is about to say that he does and post a comparison/fade animation.

[eyeseeyou]

I like to be under the sea.......

[B]

The Factory keeps darting in and out of discussions of the PID/PWR discussion, particularly
as it relates to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".
The producer of the film, Williams' neice, is named Esther Robinson, which may connect with
the "Mrs. Robinson" of the Simon and Garfunkel song.

Shayla
(Blondie)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOYAwMfGNI0
Shayla worked in a factory
She wasn't history. She's just a number
One day she gets her final pay
And she goes far away
Green trees call to me
I am free but life is so cheap
Scenery is still outside of me
All alone, trapped by its beauty

Shayla turned to run away
To leave in peace and end her stay
Years of fear were in her way
Lost in space and down she came

Suddenly some subtle entity
Some cosmic energy brushed her like shadows
Down here we stop to wonder
Cars on the freeway. Bright lights and thunder
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I know this post makes no sense. It's all PID, imo. Shayla may be Paul.
Febbie turns me off.

[mommybird]

Letter B, I hope that you don't take this the wrong way. But, can you PLEASE stop trying to insinuate that Paul became a woman ? You have NO proof of it, and it seems that you're reaching further & further and really stretching it to make this point.

[trutha]

^ Paul becoming a woman is pretty unrealistic.

[B]

Sorry mommybird, that's where the song clues go. He did for a while, most likely as a disguise to get away.
I can't ignore one hint after another.
I realize that "Shayla" may not be about Paul, and I may "be stretching it" in this case, but what part of:

"I used to be a woman, you know" do you not understand?

That's a line from Neil Young's "Last Trip to Tulsa", and Neil never "used to be a woman".
True, it may mean that in a previous life he was a woman, or something, whether it's about
Neil or Paul, but for some reason the woman thing seems to be a big deal.
You can't tell me that cross-dressing isn't suggested in Obladi Obladah, or that "Polythene Pam"
isn't about a man being a woman. Beatle Paul even pointed out that the writing "Fool on the Hill"
in the MMT cartoons is meant to look like a female oriface.
Whether Paul ever attempted to be a transvestite or not, the fact is that it seems to be a big
part of whatever the clues are about. I refuse to ignore that.
If you tell me "it's Bill/Faul", then that may also be true, but I feel that one, or both, were involved.

[trutha]

"If you tell me "it's Bill/Faul", then that may also be true..."

Whether it's true about Bill/Faul, I don't know. I firmly believe it is not true about Paul, though. There is no indication whatsoever that he had those tendencies.

[Red Lion]

But, can you PLEASE stop trying to insinuate that Paul became a woman ? You have NO proof of it

It's no different than saying Paul is dead.

[Girl]

Interesting... this thread caused me to remember something I witnessed in my family's photo collection...

upon further investigation of Masonic cross-dressing, I uncovered this bit in blog: "...In the later development of Europe, early alchemists borrowed from pre-Christian spirituality at times, and some of these mystics created the concept of the "chemical wedding," a merger of male and female spiritual attributes to achieve perfection. Some alchemists saw this as a chemical concept that would lead to the process of transmuting lead into gold, while others touted that this was more of a personal, spiritual transformation. While much of this was later absorbed into secret societies such as the Freemasons and Rosicrucians, the belief hints at transformative and bigender-conscious reverence..."

Also read about similiar goings-on in a description of the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert. So perhaps it's not all that much of a stretch... symbolic rather than literal?

[trutha]

^ Androgyny is supposedly the perfect balance of masculine & feminine energies.

[mommybird]

You can't tell me that cross-dressing isn't suggested in Obladi Obladah, or that "Polythene Pam"
isn't about a man being a woman. Beatle Paul even pointed out that the writing "Fool on the Hill"

The thing is, the song clues concerning this all came about AFTER Paul's death. I believe that they are meant to be about Faul, not Paul. Any literary observations concerning "Paul's" "bi-sexuality" were caused by incidents that took place post Sept., 1966.
Gossip concerning Mick Jagger/ David Bowie having "slept" with "Paul McCartney" immediately comes to mind.

As far as lyrics in other people's songs, it's really hard to determine what they're writing about. It could very well be about incidents in their own lives or those close to them. Unless there's a definite connection between the author/s & Paul ( or the other Beatles/beatles ) it's rarely clear that it's definitely about him.
I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree about this
point.

It's no different than saying Paul is dead.

Well, for all we know, he might very well not be ( at least not anymore).
Anyone for reincarnation ? It's really big in India. ;D

[trutha]

"The thing is, the song clues concerning this all came about AFTER Paul's death."

That's exactly what I was thinking. Besides, after watching tons of videos of Paul, he does not strike me as having feminine tendencies at all. Faul, on the other hand, .... well, that's open to debate :-)

It is true that there really is no such thing as "death."

[TotalInformation]

It's like that message on White Album:

"Paul grew some titties, MISS HIM MISS MISS HIM."

Dec 26, 2008 21:24:23 GMT -5 Red Lion said:

But, can you PLEASE stop trying to insinuate that Paul became a woman ? You have NO proof of it

It's no different than saying Paul is dead.

[mommybird]

Total, it's so good to see your humorous side ! ;D