Beatles Footage Found

More than 30 minutes of the Beatles playing live in Kansas in 1964 has been found lying in a cupboard by a fan, it is reported.

The Liverpudlian legends played a gig in Kansas' Municipal Stadium in 1964, just as Beatlemania began to grip the United States. New footage has just been uncovered by fan Drew Dimmel, who was clearing out his parent's house when he made the discovery.

The silent film, on a roll of 8mm film, had lain undisturbed for more than forty years. Dimmel told British newspaper The Daily Telegraph that "I was going to stand in front of the stage and film the show, but when the lights dimmed a policeman told us to find our seats. A local reporter who was a friend of my dad was in the press barrier and he recognised us and said he would try and get some shots of The Beatles for us."

"The next day I took the film to our local camera store, making no mention of its contents, and waited for them to develop it. I paid four dollars developing fee. I went straight home, checked to see that images on the little reel were The Beatles, opened the drawer of our old desk and placed it in the bottom of the drawer. And there it's been for the last half of a century until we cleared out my parent's estate two months ago."

Drew Dimmel announced that he plans to sell the film in a British auction house. The sale will take place on November 4th.