Meher Baba Newsreel Footage Explained

Meher Baba Newsreel footage is a series of 1932 newsreels of Meher Baba's Messages to the west and his interviews with media at Croton-on-Hudson, New York, house of American actress Margaret Mayo in the United States,[1] andRussell Square, 32 Russell Road, Kensington, London, England.[2] [3] [4]

Footage

The newsreel features Interviews with television personalities Meredith Starr, Charles Purdom, and British actor Quentin Tod among others.[5] The reels were produced by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation for their Movietone News, and Paramount Pictures for their Paramount News series respectively.[2] [6] The freeze-framing shots on board the SS Bremen from New York City to Le Havre, at Hancock, New Hampshire, and North Devonshire retreat in 1932 were rediscovered in 1994 from a film archive in New York.[7] [8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: archives.nypl.org -- Margaret Mayo papers. archives.nypl.org. 2015-12-13.
  2. Web site: Meher Baba, Hindu mystic, to break silence—outtakes. (Fox Movietone News Story 14-558.) Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. digital.tcl.sc.edu.
  3. Web site: Meher Baba's Interview (April 8, 1932) – Paramount Newsreel – SOUTH ASIAN TRIBUNE.
  4. Meher Baba's Silent Semiotic Output, University of Chicago. José. Sanjinés. 24 January 2014. Signs and Society. 2. S1. S121–S159. CrossRef. 10.1086/674313. 191595813 .
  5. Web site: Meher Baba's mission to the west, University of Bristol.
  6. Web site: MOVIE REVIEW : 'Meher Baba's' Makers Use Slo-Mo Religiously. Chris. Willman. August 18, 1989. Los Angeles Times.
  7. Web site: Meredith Starr with Meher Baba and companions at SS Bremen 1932, and at Devonshire retreat. meherbabatravels jimdo page!.
  8. News: Mystic 'Redeemer' awaited at Croton-on-Hudson; Meher Baba filmed by paramount at Harmon-on-Hudson 1932, House of Margaret Mayo, Playwright, for Use as "Peaceful Meherashram.". Special to THE NEW YORK. TIMES. The New York Times . 8 May 1932. NYTimes.com.
  9. Web site: Meher Baba in America: 1932.

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