Peto, Michael (2006) ‘Now These Days Are Gone’, UK signed deluxe limited edition by Genesis Publication

When the renowned photojournalist Michael Peto died in 1970, he bequeathed an incredible 130,000 prints and negatives to Scotland’s University of Dundee. Decades later, while archiving the work, the University made an astonishing discovery within the collection – hundreds of photographs taken during the making of The Beatles’ second feature film, Help!

In Now These Days Are Gone, Genesis is proud to present Michael Peto’s previously unseen photographs of The Beatles for the very first time.

Ringo: ‘Every day when there’s a break in filming you get a chance to see rushes of the scenes they shot the day before.’
Paul: ‘And that’s hilarious because you get to see all the bits of the film where somebody mucked things up by laughing and forgetting their lines.’

Michael Peto’s historic photographs capture The Beatles on the set of Help! at Twickenham Studios on Salisbury Plain, enjoying dinner at their Salisbury hotel, relaxing over tea and biscuits with their Help! co-stars, in the recording studio, and facing press the day their MBEs were announced to the world.