Japan superfans lose fight for 1966 Beatles tour footage

Group of Japanese Beatles fans have lost their bid to get police to hand over historic footage of the band’s 1966 Japan visit.The superfans took their battle for the film — recorded by police as a security measure — all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing it was a “historical document.”

Police had offered to release the footage, reportedly about 35 minutes long, but only after blurring the faces of everyone in the film except the Beatles, citing privacy reasons. Two lower courts backed the police against a group of citizens from Nagoya who wanted the entire film released uncensored, saying it would be almost impossible to identify people in the footage more than 50 years later. But the long and winding legal battle ended last week when the Supreme Court rejected their argument, the group announced.

Source: Don’t let me down: Japan superfans lose fight for 1966 Beatles tour footage | The Japan Times