#the musicians union just banned miming music on tv in 1966 so no synced singing was allowed

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When Beatles history and fandom history collide

The Beatles’ music video for Strawberry Fields Forever inspired the first fan vidder, Kandy Fong, to combine Star Trek images and recorded music/audio to tell a new kind of fan story.

Fong says she got the idea to set images to music this way from the Beatles.

Well, the Beatles did a video called Strawberry Fields Forever, and they’re doing all kinds of very strange things like jumping out of trees, and they had this deconstructed piano that the wires just go up…And they’re just doing all sorts of unusual images. And to my mind I look at this, going, “Okay, we’re disconnecting the actual playing of the instruments and singing the song with the images we’re seeing. So I can take a song and use images from somewhere else to tell my story—oh, Star Trek, oh, of course, Star Trek!” And that’s where I got the idea.

From Francesca Coppa’s Vidding: A History (2022) | Chapter 2: Early Vidding and Its Precursors