TOW #28 Good Ol' Freda

This documentary was about the secretary of The Beatles. Her name was Freda Kelly and she is still alive. This documentary tracks her life from the beginning of The Beatles to the current day. The main speaker in this documentary is Ms. Kelly. She speaks through the whole documentary explaining every what she was doing in respect to what The Beatles were doing. An example would be when The Beatles went to India, she said that she was there with them. The audience that the documentary is appealing to is The Beatles fan base. It is trying to educate them on someone they might have never known who was vitally important during Beatle-mania.

The documentary was trying to teach its audience about Freda Kelly. A person who has mostly been at the sidelines of The Beatles history, she was very important. The documentary uses pictures and interviews to achieve this idea. There are many pictures in which Freda Kelly is next to The Beatles or she is working with her group of girls on the many fan letters that The Beatles received during their years as a band. In the interviews it has important reporters and workers of Freda Kelly. In the interviews they talk about how Kelly liked to stay to the sidelines and help the band from afar.

Good Ol' Freda also explains how The Beatles rose and fell. In explaining the history and importance of Freda Kelly the documentary also explains the history of The Beatles. The documentary does this by comparing the history of Freda kelly to that of The Beatles. The documentary tells the two stories but has a balance between the two that is unnoticeable.

The final purpose that this movie was made was for Freda Kelly's grandson. At the end of the documentary Freda Kelly explains to the audience that she did not really talk about it a lot with her children when they were growing up and learning about The Beatles. Now Freda Kelly has changed her mind after her son died. Since she feels regret for not going into detail about her life with her son she wants her grandson to have what her son could not. The documentary captures this with the last few scenes as it shows Freda kelly with her grandson as they walk into the sunset,