~ The promotional film for Penny Lane together with the video for Strawberry Fields Forever, was one of the first examples of what would later be known as a music video. The music video was not filmed at Penny Lane or Strawberry Field, as the Beatles were reluctant to travel to Liverpool. Street scenes were filmed in and around Angel Lane in Londons East End. The broken sequence of John walking alone was filmed on the Kings Road (at Markham Square) in Chelsea. The outdoor scenes were filmed at Knole Park in Sevenoaks on 30 and 31 January 1967. The promo film for Strawberry Fields Forever was also shot at the same location, during the same visit (during The Beatles stay in Sevenoaks, John wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pable Fanques Circus Royal that would inspire the song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!) ~ ~ Both films, directed by the Swede Peter Goldmann*, were selected by New Yorks MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) to be among the most influential promotional music films of the late 1960s. Film of Penny Lane was included - with some scenes of green Liverpool buses and a brief overhead view of the shelter in the middle of the roundabout, but none of the Beatles attended ~ {*Goldmann was a friend of Klaus Voormann}
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