MCA DiscoVision - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Catalog Number 17-004

Format Standard Play CAV

MPAA Rating

Running Time 113 minutes

Dolby Stereo
Pressing Location	DiscoVision Carson
Label Color	Blue
Retail Price	$15.95
Year Issued	1979

Side	Frames	Running Time
1	28,835	20min 01sec
2	38,808	26min 57sec
3	38,408	26min 40sec
4	24,409	16min 57sec
5	30,996	21min 31sec
	161,456	112min 07sec
Dead Side	Various

Ratings
Video Transfer
Audio Transfer
Replication

Packaging
Large Open-Top
Open-Top
Side-Open Sticker
Printed

Pressing Notes

The jacket used for the images on this page was from the first run of the printed jackets. DiscoVision included the Stereo markings on a sticker affixed to the shrink-wrap. Subsequent printings of the jacket included a red banner across the upper right corner of the jacket. Acceptable sides 3 & 4 are hard to find, but not impossible. The only actual dialog in the entire film is from the late George Burns who provides the running narrative. Everything else is done strictly through song, much like Jesus Christ Superstar, although that film contains no spoken dialog at all.

The transfer is really quite good despite the 2.35:1 theatrical image is so poorly represented. The audio decodes cleanly into Dolby Surround, but has very little in the rear channels which stands out and there is hardly any left-right directionality.