A new video of the police security when The Beatles, who made the world crazy in the 1960s, came to Japan in 1966, has been released.
In addition to the strict security situation, the video also shows a part of the final performance in Japan, which had not been found until now. ”.
This video was disclosed in July of this year as a result of an information disclosure request to the Metropolitan Police Department in 2015 by the NPO "Information Disclosure Citizen Center" that supports information disclosure requests.
The faces of people other than the members of the Beatles are not disclosed as personal information, and are all blurred.
Recorded in the video is a 35-minute black-and-white video without sound that records the security situation of the Metropolitan Police Department when the Beatles came to Japan for a performance from June 29th to July 3rd, 1966. It's a video.
In the video, checkpoints were set up around the Nippon Budokan where the performance was held and the hotel where the members stayed, and the scene of the Metropolitan Police Department boat patrolling the moat around the Budokan was recorded. It is a document that understands the actual situation of large-scale security posture.
Some of the Beatles' performances are also recorded in the video.
It also includes the final performance on the night of July 2nd, which had not been found until now, and you can see how the members who finished the performance went down the stage while waving their hands.
Toru Omura, an expert on the trends of the Beatles' visit to Japan, said, "I feel like I've run out of materials about the Beatles, but this video showing the final day's performance is surprising and worth studying." I'm here.
Expert ``Significant in the material that supports the excitement of the final performance''
The video of The Beatles' visit to Japan was performed five times in total for three days from June 30th to July 2nd.
Of these, the second performance held on the afternoon of July 1 was broadcast on television at the time, and later the first performance on the evening of June 30 was also broadcast on television and sold as a video. and became public.
According to Toru Omura, the Beatles had lost the desire to continue their concert activities at the time, and many Japanese fans were disappointed because the performances of these two performances, for which video footage was still available, were disorganized.
According to Mr. Omura, in the memoir of the Beatles public relations staff at that time, it was written that the members discussed that the performance should be improved after the first performance. It is said that the performance was the best in the newspaper articles of the time.
Omura said, ``There were still photos of the final performance, but the footage had not been made public. The newly discovered footage shows the Beatles leaving the stage, but fans enthusiastically waving handkerchiefs. And you can see the members waving their hands in a good mood toward the audience seats.
In addition, there is also a video that seems to have been taken from the audience seats of the first performance, and Mr. Omura said, "Until now, I have not found a video taken from the audience seats. I know what you were seeing," he said.
Video to be released soon on YouTube
Satoshi Shinkai, chairman of the NPO "Information Disclosure Citizen Center," which made the request for information disclosure, said, "I think it's a good subject for everyone to feel familiar with, that this kind of information can be obtained by requesting information disclosure. Recognize the past. In order to think about the future, it is important for the authorities to clarify historical materials rather than continue to preserve them internally."
According to this NPO, in 2014, the information disclosure request made to the Metropolitan Police Department did not disclose all of it, saying, "Security methods will be clarified," but as a result of making a request again in 2015, some of it was disclosed. It means that a decision has been made to
However, since the faces of people other than the members of the Beatles were not disclosed as personal information, the center requested full disclosure and sued the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2017, but the loss was confirmed in 2018.
For this reason, in the disclosed video this time, the faces of police officers and fans who perform security have been blurred.
Regarding this, Chairman Shinkai said, ``It is too late that it took less than four years from the decision to be disclosed until the judgment was finalized. It shows a delay," he said.
This video will soon be released on the YouTube channel of the National Citizen Ombudsman Liaison Conference.