{"id":4941,"date":"2013-07-15T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2015-08-20T01:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:05:02","slug":"was-a-hard-days-night-filmed-in-black-and-white-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/07\/15\/was-a-hard-days-night-filmed-in-black-and-white-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Was A Hard Day’s Night Filmed in Black and White to Save Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: A Hard Day’s Night was filmed in black and white to save on costs.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in a recent edition of Music Urban Legends Revealed<\/a>, United Artists signed the Beatles to a movie deal mostly so that they could put out a soundtrack, figuring that they’d recoup the costs of the film with sales of the record album based on the movie alone (an ingenious plan, really), and there was always a chance that the film could be a hit, too! <\/p>\n

Of course, the movie ended up becoming a massive hit and United Artists made oodles of cash from both the film AND the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

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