Video: 'Hard Days Night' (Apr. 9, 1964, at 1:00:54-1:03:20)

(Thursday, April 9, 1964) — Ringo Starr was the only Beatle to take part in today‘s production for the band’s first feature film, A Hard Day’s Night as his riverside scene was filmed along the River Thames towpath and embankment in Kew, Surrey.

Starr was praised for his acting in the scene, although he later admitted he had been hungover after a night of heavy drinking.

The scene in which Starr trips over the tyre on the embankment had to be shot numerous times, as it failed to roll correctly.

Eventually it was handed to the young boy, David Janson, with whom Ringo acted alongside the river; Janson rolled the tyre perfectly on his first attempt.