{"id":229,"date":"2020-04-19T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/czbrown\/?p=229"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:30","slug":"the-peto-collection-the-beatles-playing-on-salisbury-plain-may-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-peto-collection-the-beatles-playing-on-salisbury-plain-may-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peto Collection &#8211; The Beatles playing on Salisbury Plain, May 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-230 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/MS-81-1464-1-Beatles-playing-Salisbury-Plain-May-1965.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peto captured the Beatles filming and recording their second feature HELP in 1965! One of the film\u2019s most iconic scenes is the Beatles playing on Salisbury Plain, protected by the Army from the cult who want to sacrifice Ringo.<\/p>\n<p>Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an age \u2013 a spirited mix of arts and culture, politics, war and peace, social documentary and the emergence of twentieth celebrity culture. Peto had a very personal humanist style, seeking to record \u2018the basic serenity of the human form\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collection was gifted to the University of Dundee by Peto\u2019s stepson Michael Fodor and comprises some 130,000 prints and negatives. It is held by the University Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peto captured the Beatles filming and recording their second feature HELP in 1965! One of the film\u2019s most iconic scenes is the Beatles playing on Salisbury Plain, protected by the Army from the cult who want to sacrifice Ringo. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-music","category-photography","tag-peto-collection"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}