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According to an article in Gulf News

…a newly restored film with remastered sound of the Fab Four’s performance on August 15, 1965, at New York’s Shea Stadium will be screened in conjunction with the Howard picture.

The film has never been released for home video, but it was shown in 1967 as an ABC-TV special The Beatles at Shea Stadium. It encompasses 11 songs and, typical of the Beatles’ performances during that time, lasts just 30 minutes.

It has been given a 4K restoration, and the sound has been upgraded by Giles Martin, son of Beatles original producer George Martin. The concert was captured by 14 35-mm cameras for the film, first shown in the UK in 1966 before airing in colour in the US the following year.

however that film lasted 48 minutes (unless edited for the US in 1967) so unless they have cut 18 minutes out it can’t be the same film; also  ‘Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby’ is listed in the official press release for the exclusive screening yet wasn’t in the above film.

How long would the film run if all the support acts were removed and we just got the Beatles performances? 

Bizarre.

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Billboard also have reported the ‘The Beatles at Shea Stadium‘ special will be shown. Along with other details the article writes

The Shea concert, which was first shown in the U.S. on ABC-TV in 1967 as The Beatles At Shea Stadium TV special, had been shown in bits and pieces with upgraded footage in various Beatles projects including 1995’s The Beatles Anthology, but hasn’t been seen in complete form since the original TV broadcast other than on bootleg. Its re-release has long been a major desire of Beatles fans along with their live recordings from the Hollywood Bowl, which will finally come out Sept. 9, and the movie Let It Be  on DVD, which is still in limbo.

The Shea Stadium concert was filmed by 14 35mm cameras in front of 55,000 people and first shown on BBC TV in black-and-white in the UK in 1966 and in color in the U.S. a year later. The film’s new 4K restoration and sound remastering was done at Abbey Road Studios by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, who also worked on the recent 10th anniversary Beatles LOVE show at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, the upcoming The Beatles: Live at the Hollywood Bowl CD and the Beatles 1+ DVD that came out late last year. The songs in the Shea concert include “Twist And Shout ,” “I Feel Fine ,” “She’s A Woman ” and a finale of “I’m Down ” that featured John Lennon running his arm along the keyboard.

and adds later

Schwenson, the author of another Beatles concert book, The Beatles in Cleveland on their concerts in that city, also said there was no footage of “She’s A Woman ” shot for the original show because cameramen were changing films, but he said he was told footage of the song has been located from home movies taken by fans in the stands for the Ron Howard film.

Ron Furmanek, who worked on the restoration of the film for the Beatles, said the quality of the Shea show is superb. “Shea Stadium, other than the sound issues, of everything that was ever shot in the ’60s of any group, I think Shea Stadium is the highest quality film. It looks better than Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, Monterey Pop. It really does. Go look at it in Anthology. It’s stunning. Put on the headphones and look at it in Anthology. You’re going to hear some true stereo there, like ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy .'”

‘She’s A Woman ‘ was cut from the special so is that footage in the ‘EDAW’ film? And, again, where does ‘Everybody Trying To Be My Baby’ fit in? And why does no one add ‘Can’t Buy Me Love ‘ to the set list?

How did this get so confusing and chaotic?