BOSTON -- They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles. And almost four decades after the footage was shot at Lennon's estate in England, his widow is in court, fighting to keep the images private.

World Wide Video LLC, a Lawrence, Mass.-based company, claims it owns the 10 hours of raw footage, but Yoko Ono claims she is the owner. World Wide Video has filed a lawsuit against Ono, claiming her attempts to stop the company from publicly showing the footage is a copyright infringement. Both have agreed not to show the film while the case is working through the courts.

The footage was shot Feb. 8-10, 1970, by Anthony Cox, Ono's husband before her marriage to Lennon in 1969. It shows Lennon writing "Remember" and "Mind Games" and shows him performing "Instant Karma," according to a description in The Boston Globe, which view ed the videotapes for a March 2007 story.

The footage also includes some tender moments, such as when Lennon blow-dries his wife's hair, and when Lennon and Ono play with Julian Lennon and Kyoko Cox, children from their previous marriages.