THIS is the UK's first glimpse of the earliest-known film footage of The Beatles - revealed 44 years to the day it was filmed.
Fresh from Hamburg and still wearing their black leather jackets, the Fab Four are shown performing a Valentine's Day gig at a Wirral church hall in 1962.
In a taster of what was to come, screaming girls are seen surrounding the tiny stage.
Original drummer Pete Best, who was in the band at the time, bought the grainy cine film after a fan found it among his father's belongings.
In the early 1960s, the group was playing up to seven concerts a day, so in 2006 Mr Best and his production company, Best Wishes Productions, had to turn detectives to discover exactly what gig it was.
Alan Humphreys, director of Best Wishes, which is in talks with television companies to use the film in a documentary, said: "We've tried to narrow it down by looking at the finer details.
"Pete is still in the band, while McCartney has a Hofner violin bass and George has a Countryman guitar, which he bought from an ad in the Echo around that time, so we know it is in 1962.
"There are also Valentine hearts on the curtains behind them so we know it has to be either Valentine's Day or February 12 that year, because that was the Saturday."
Mr Humphreys added: "It was strange in that nobody recognised the venue. We asked
