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]
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
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Margaret Mayo papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Meher Baba's Interview (April 8, 1932) – Paramount Newsreel – SOUTH ASIAN TRIBUNE".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Meher Baba's mission to the west, University of Bristol" (PDF).
- ^ Willman, Chris (August 18, 1989). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Meher Baba's' Makers Use Slo-Mo Religiously". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Meredith Starr with Meher Baba and companions at SS Bremen 1932, and at Devonshire retreat". meherbabatravels jimdo page!.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Meher Baba in America: 1932".