Vdo 9: TOUR OF MEHERAZAD with NAJA, BHAU, RANO, MEHERA, ERUCH

Vdo 9: TOUR OF MEHERAZAD with NAJA, BHAU, ERUCH, MEHERA, Saturday 11 December, 1976 1:00 p.m.
(click on CC box in lower right corner for CLOSED CAPTIONS)
Videotaped by David Fenster
Courtesy: Meher Baba Film Archive International

00:00 – start
00:58 – NAJA in the kitchen
00:59 – “A punch in the nose,” Mani
01:11 –BHAU, 2 p.m. Inside Bhau’s room, 1948 Elizabeth Patterson brought two cars and room was used to park them. We came in 1958...doing night watch; (Sheila Krynski)
03:26 – Bhau’s writing work. 1959 Baba gave Bhau writing desk. For articles, correspondence, play in Marathi about Baba. Also in Hindi.
09:24. – Baba liked Bhau’s play and wanted him to write songs for it. 100 songs
10:36 – In 1961 he asked Bhau to translate into Hindi The Everything and The Nothing
12:48 – 1967 – points given for a new book
13:52 – 1967 Baba requests Bhau to write ghazals Only Persian or Urdu. Bhau wrote in Hindi at Guruprasad
18:44 – Baba asked Bhau on January 24, 1969 to write Baba’s biography (Lord Meher)
22:52 – "The Nothing and The Everything" Baba only gave points. Story form
21:27 – Baba’s manifestation Last chapter of Lord Meher....3 months 20 days to complete Lord Meher in verse
25:07 – end of interview with Bhau

25:16 – Pendu sleeping on the Verandah at Meherazad
25: 46 – 3 :00 p.m. Tea time, Eruch, Aloba ´Come for Tea.´
26:19 – Francis Brabazon
27:18 – Heather Nadel, Francis, Eruch
28:07 – Mani, touching her ears and nose game
28:34 – Francis, Eruch on bench listening to Sam Saunders sing one of Francis’ songs: “The Horse And The Cow”.

30:52 – FRANCIS explaining the meaning of the song
31:47 – Beginning of another song. “I go upon the high mountain”
32:08 – 3:45 pm Rano in her workroom
32:38 – Rano´s drawings studies during different periods

41:33 – 4:30 p.m. MEHERA in her bedroom, the story of the tree, end of July 1969; sitting in bedroom window, tree outside of her window.
50:15 – Photograph of Baba´s tree, Baba´s face

50:26 – 5:00 p.m. ERUCH in mandali hall, Meherazad
57:58 – Best photo of Baba taken 40 days before dropping the body.
59:26 – The story of the dead gong sent from England by brother Adi
1:04:47 – End of the story of the gong, Eruch
1:0454 – The Blue Bus, bed Baba dropped His body on.
1:06:31 – 6:00 p.m. Mehera saying goodbye to pilgrims on her verandah. (Florence Childs, Ralph Jackson.)
1:06:41 – (Terry Weisbart)
1:06:51 – Dr. Goher, Ralph Jackson
1:09:28 – (Rano – It´s too dark.) (Aloba blows whistle – time to go.)
1:09:56 – Goher – Jack Caraco
1:10:43 – Mehera – Jack Caraco
1:11:09 – Naja, David, Meheru
1:12:00 – Meheru, Naja, Heather Nadel, (Peter Nordeen telling Mehera about his home in Gwinn, Michigan)
1:14:22 – Goher on her bicycle in garden on women´s side
1:15:04 – Jai Baba, Mehera….shot of Baba´s house, waving goodbye
1:15:42 – Boarding the bus to leave, on men´s side
1:16:14 – Jack Small
1:17:09 – Aloba
1:17:22 – (Terry Weisbart, Bhau, Ralph Jackson, Mani, Eruch)
1:17:47 – Bhau, Heather Nadel, Mani, Rano, Heather
1:18:04 – Mani, Rosalee Dunphy, David and Rano dancing
1:19:49 – Aloba, Goher
1:20:10 – Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! (Jeep leaves)
1:21:19 – Bus leaves