Never-before-seen footage of The Beatles in 1965 emerges

Never-before-seen footage of The Beatles preparing for a television performance has been released, showing the quartet mucking around for the camera while having their make-up done.

The silent footage, shot by Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane in 1965, shows the group grooming their famous hair-dos and winking at the camera before The Music of Lennon & McCartney which aired on November 1.

The clip, published by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, allows an insight into the world-famous band and their pre-performance routines.

Swane was working for Granada TV in Manchester at the time, and documented various parts of her working life as a make-up artist, dancer, and founder of 3 Arts Make-up Centre (now The Art and Technology of Make-up College) in Sydney.

“I don’t know if it was John or if it was Ringo, but they took the camera off me and said ‘This is no way to use a camera’ and they sort of jiggled it upside down,” Swane said.

“Everybody was just mucking around…They were a nice group of people.”

Her detailed collection of films and musings were donated to the NFSA by her daughter, production designer Melinda Doring.

The footage, and other rare film moments from celebrities such as Michael Caine, have been released to the NFSA’s Youtube channel for public viewing.