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]
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]
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Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. A spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, with a smaller number of followers in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
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