A bootleg film of an "unscheduled" Beatles concert recorded in 1964 has been bought at auction by the band's company Apple Corp for £4100.
The silent two minute film was sold by Drew Dimmel, who, then aged 15, smuggled his father's new camera into the Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. He had planned to stand in front of the stage and record the whole show, but was told to go back to his seat, at which point a journalist in the press pit agreed to take over the filming. The concert, in front of 20,000 people, was arranged at the last minute after the band's manager Brian Epstein accepted an offer of $150,000 from the venue.
Dimmel said on Cameo Auctioneers' website: "We cleared out my parent's estate two months ago and there we discovered it at the bottom of the drawer, still lying in its original photo-lab box with 'Beatles 1964' on the back of the box where I'd feverishly scrawled it in blue ballpoint pen. [It is] the one and only motion picture in existence of the one and only concert the Beatles would ever perform in Kansas City".