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Years before MTV existed, John Lennon and an American advertising artist named Stephen Verona sat at a Manhattan dining room table, chain-smoking and coloring 240 cartoon cells with felt-tip markers. Working from an unlabeled acetate disc of what would become the Beatles' smash hit "I Feel Fine," they turned every word, beat, and guitar riff into a kinetic pop-art animation titled She Said So. The resulting film went on to win awards, screen at the Museum of Modern Art, and land in the Library of Congress—quietly establishing the visual template for modern music videos. Here is the untold story of their accidental masterpiece, and how those long-lost hand-drawn cells were recently rediscovered and brought back to Liverpool.