Okay, I have seen Part 1. Finally, some of those 50 year old bootleg records I’ve had since the 70s make a lot more sense, because Peter Jackson has put it into context.
There are a lot of great moments here. You can see the classic Beatles songs come into focus as they create the music. The songs could have gone into different directions along the way.
The Beatles here, like all bands that have played together for awhile, had their own short hand telepathy thing going. Only the band members themselves would fully get it, because of their shared experiences. The Beatles usually recorded at night, but they couldn’t do it here, because the film crews worked in the day. So, you can see that the Beatles are tired here (at least in the first week).
Anyway, I want to see the other two parts before I comment further. So far, it did not disappoint. I too was transfixed with the material. According to one of the articles someone posted here, there’s an 18 hour cut of this stuff.
. Sort of a precursor to Pink Floyd Pompeii! And seeing Mal Evan’s ‘play’ the anvil on Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is pretty cool. Reading up on the production of the film on Wiki is interesting. Seems that getting filmed full time was pretty rough: 
