Maxwell's silver hammer cartoon

Maxwell's Silver Hammer Cartoon Information supplied by the article from Rowan Ayers who launched Abbey Road on his show Late Night Line Up. The Beatles gave Rowan Ayers the Maxwell's Silver Hammer cartoon after the launch of Abbey Road. It was signed by the band. The one of a kind mixed media cartoon was filmed in the song by rock pop film clip pioneer Phil Jenkinson. It had wobbly separated heads which moved to the song. Created by the BBC and The Beatles it resembled a Barber Shop Quartet 1 From Rowan Ayers '' We mixed a number of styles and visual gimmicks to reflect each of the numbers including an animated cartoon background to Maxwell's Silver Hammer, in which drawings of the fab four showed them as a 'barber shop quartet.' They were delighted with the whole programme and gave me this signed caption as a memento. Ringo's ps relates to our regular presenters, Joan Bakewell and Tony Bilbow who interviewed him a number of times on the programme.

    Signed Rowan Ayers, Former Editor, Late Night Line Up, BBC 2, ( 1964 - 1973 )