In honor of the 48th anniversary of the Beatles playing Ed Sullivan, here’s a clip from Robert Zemeckis’ strange little piece of Boomer nostalgia, 1978’s I Wanna Hold Your Hand. (See, Boomers were getting misty-eyed for their youth even when they were young. No wonder they can’t handle getting old.) There are two great scenes in the film, this being one of them. The Beatles give our sexually repressed heroine an honest-to-God full-blown orgasm with their magical Beatle powers. This probably really happened. It definitely happened in A Hard Day’s Night, if you swap our heroine’s soundless, tearful cry for “Paul” to “George.” Good stuff starts around 1:03. Read a full breakdown of the film at the AV Club.
