“I tried to make a very honest movie,” said Jackson, who - based on preview footage provided to interviewers - appears to have achieved his goal. With few exceptions, while making “Get Back,” Jackson deliberately avoided using any of the footage that was featured in Lindsay-Hogg’s film - the better to provide viewers a captivating new experience with one of the most documented rock bands of all time. Interpol recovered the purloined reels during a 2003 raid in Holland. He sold it to two Dutch music traders for about $60,000. Providing added intrigue, shortly after the 1969 filming, many of the original reels of footage were stolen by a former employee of The Beatles’ Apple Studio, Nigel Oliver. Jackson culled “Get Back” from nearly 60 hours of previously unseen footage that was shot in January 1969 for director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s briefly released and widely criticized “Let It Be” documentary. “The pandemic has been devastating, but it was absolutely a silver lining for ‘Get Back’ (growing) into a three-part presentation,” said Clare Olssen, the film’s producer. With more time unexpectedly on his hands, Jackson transformed his feature film into the expanded, six-hour epic that will be seen on Disney+. “Get Back” was originally set to open in theaters last year as a 2½-hour feature film but was pushed back by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also available in a vinyl edition and in smaller CD iterations. The latter includes five CDs with 57 songs, one Blu-Ray disc and a 100-page book. Jackson’s documentary follows the October release of the 240-page book, “The Beatles: Get Back,” and a new “Let It Be Special Edition” box set. “Get Back” boasts the entire 42-minute performance by the band and guest keyboardist Billy Preston, who all but joined the band as “Let It Be” was being filmed. The original “Let It Be” film clocked in at a fleeting 80 minutes and included just 21 minutes of The Beatles’ final public performance, an impromptu winter gig on a London rooftop. It will be shown in three installments between Thursday and Saturday that, together, total more than six hours. These questions will be answered over Thanksgiving weekend when the Jackson-directed “Get Back” debuts exclusively on Disney+. Why would fans want to revisit such a downward spiral on film again, even with three-time Oscar winner Jackson at the helm? Why would Jackson devote four years of his life to it? They had no way of knowing the film crew they had hired to capture the creation of their new album and final concert would end up documenting what many regard as The Beatles’ painful on-screen divorce. The four Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - undertook both projects in spite of the rapidly rising tensions that soon led to them permanently disband.
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