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Limelight Editions, New York, 2004. So Cover. Book Condition: New. Photos (illustrator). 2004 Printing. 7-3/4 x 9". 2004 paperback Book . BRAND NEW from 2004 publisher . Never opened, Never owned, never marked . Gi Giving quality . 7-3/4" x 9" size; 267 pages . illustrated with photographs . If in the sixties the world of pop belonged to the Beatles, so too for a good part of that decade did Al Brodax . It was a tumultuous and wondrous time for all of them, crowned with the making of their now classic motion picture, ' Yellow Submarine ' .Al Brodax was the producer and, with Erich Segal and others, a co-author of the screenplay . In this book he recalls a frenzied, madcap escapade that came to be reflected in an enduring piece of screen history . The film studio was a factory lo in London's Soho Square . 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