Meher Baba Newsreel Footage

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] and Russell Square, 32 Russell Road, Kensington, London, England.^[2][3][4]

Meredith Starr interviewing Meher Baba in New York, 1932

published by the Kinematograph Weekly, Meher Baba in Willesden, North West London, April 15, 1932, viewing a newsreel clip of himself at Paramount Studios. On April 15th, 1932, Paramount Film Studio sent two cars to bring Baba and his group to Willesden to see the film that was taken of him dictating from the alphabet board and being read out by Charles Purdom

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]

References

1. "archives.nypl.org -- Margaret Mayo papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
2. "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. "Meher Baba's Interview (April 8, 1932) – Paramount Newsreel – SOUTH ASIAN TRIBUNE".
4. Sanjinés, José (24 January 2014). "Meher Baba's Silent Semiotic Output, University of Chicago". Signs and Society. 2 (S1): S121–S159. doi:10.1086/674313. S2CID 191595813 – via CrossRef.
5. "Meher Baba's mission to the west, University of Bristol" (PDF).
6. Willman, Chris (August 18, 1989). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Meher Baba's' Makers Use Slo-Mo Religiously". Los Angeles Times.
7. "Meredith Starr with Meher Baba and companions at SS Bremen 1932, and at Devonshire retreat". meherbabatravels jimdo page!.
8. TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (8 May 1932). "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."". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
9. "Meher Baba in America: 1932".