Animation director for Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ film dead at 88 | Examiner.com
Robert Balser, whose long career with cartoons included work as the animation director for the 1968 Beatles film “Yellow Submarine,” has died at age 88, Animation World Network reported Jan. 6. The website said Balser died due to complications from respiratory failure on Jan. 4 in Los Angeles. Balser was one of the few American artists who worked on the film. He was involved in directing and story-boarding the scenes outside of Pepperland, including Liverpool, the trips through the different “seas” and the end of the film. In a 2012 interview with Guitar World, he said the Beatles were not originally on board with what King Features had planned for “Yellow Submarine” because of their dissatisfaction with “The Beatles” cartoon series.
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