FILM director Martin Scorsese has been digging into Liverpool’s archives as he prepares to film an authorised documentary on the late George Harrison.

The film, set to go into production next year, will focus on Harrison’s spiritual and religious beliefs.

And staff at Liverpool’s Record Office believe they have stumbled on evidence which might explain why the guitarist became so religious.

Aside from sending old photographs of Liverpool and baptism records to Hollywood the research team have uncovered an old school register which shows an anomaly about Harrison.

The register, from Dovedale Junior School, shows Harrison, who lived at Upton Green, Speke, was exempt from religious education.

It reveals his parents, Harold and Louise, asked for him to be excluded from the morning prayers and assembly.

One of only a handful of exempted pupils, the register also shows a difference between Harrison and his older brother, Peter, who wasn’t excluded.

Kevin Roach, from Liverpool Record Office, said: “George was brought up a Catholic, but attended a Church of England School, but we still don’t know why he was ‘exempt’.

“It does make you wonder how his lack of religious education during the age of five and 11 affected him.”

Colleague Simon Whitby, an expert in Beatles history, added: “George was always the quiet one behind John and Paul, but he became such a spiritual person.

“In later interviews, he talked about spirituality and religion and he wasn’t scared to die.

“He ended up delving into meditation and was so far from western religion, it’s a mystery as to why he chose that path.”