Vdo 3: Eruch: A Typical Day with Baba

Vdo 3: ERUCH: Eruch: A Typical Day with Baba
Sunday, August 15, 1976, 10:30 a.m. mandali hall Meherazad
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Videotaped by David Fenster
Courtesy: Meher Baba Film Archives International
0:00 - start
0:11 - A typical day with Baba, ever a fresh day, but there was a routine
(Naosherwan Satha, Eruch´s uncle, walks across the camera)
01:20 - Baba going to sleep in the evening....he was always in awake sleep, not like men
03:37 - (Clock in Mandali Hall chiming 10:30 a.m.) Heather Nadel:¨What would the other people do?¨ Other people would follow him. Just folded hands to bid Him good night. No Jai.
05:02 - Nightwatch with Baba, asked each mandali member to be alert about their timings.
07:27 - (Heather Nadel) Baba´s shirt each man ready for night duty.
08:55 - In the dining room with the women or on the sofa, sitting in the drawing room
09:54 - Baba eating wants to know what food has been prepared
14:13 - Heather Nadel: ¨How would Baba talk?¨ We would talk in our language and we’d repeat what he asked, before giving an answer
14:37 - (Jack Small) (shift to wide view) (Rhoda Dubash of Karachi on right side, Heather Nadel on left)
16:02 - With night watchman who would not budge, Baba would ask for pressing his body
17:57 - Baba snoring
19:26 - Nightwatch (Heather Nadel) How would you sit on the bed? Facing out?
20:24 - Baba asking for food in the night or water, biscuit or chocolates are brought
21:17 - Story of Bhau letting the chocolate tin fall on Baba. Baba cried out with pain, scolding Bhau for carelessness
24:50 - Changing the watch at night (shift close up) Bhau is leaving for next man to arrive.
28:48 - Story of Gustadji going out to piddle at night.
30:17 - On mast tour with Baba (Fred Bunswick walks across camera) in north India
31:26 - (cont.) Story about Gustadji (close up) sits on a masonry bench and Gustadji wants to piddle and he hears Baba clapping. Don’t budge Baba tells Gustadji.
35:30 - Story of Bhau told not to move in Meherazad on night watch
37:43 - In the morning the women go to Baba, bell rings to tell them to come
38:16 - Baba liked Forhan’s Toothpaste
40:41 - (Jack Small) ¨Was Baba neat?¨ (Shift wide view)
41:29 - Cuticura Soap was Baba’s favorite
41:53 - Camay Soap (Karen Files) was also His favorite in the later years
44:03 - Baba liked skim cream, on mast tours had it.
45:12 - Baba drinks tea, eats His breakfast.
47:30 - Baba comes to mandali hall in morning. (Battery changed).
48:35 - Gustadji tells Baba stories. (Karen Files moves next to Eruch on right side).
49:20 - (Heather Nadel, Jack Small)
49:34 - Baba asking if the mail has come.
50:52 - Deaths, births, marriages to report to Baba.
52:40 - Baba taking a snack in the morning (close up).
54:02 - Baba giving away his food.
55:40 - Baba sitting on his potty.
56:37 - (shift wide view) visitors come and go
57:23 - Reading the newspaper, ¨Bogus News¨ Two newspaper incidents read to Baba
58:54 - a) Man eats car
59:18 - b) Two lunatic inmates climb tower in Calcutta
1:00:00 - (Farhad Shafa of Teheran) ¨Visitors come?¨
1:02:45 - Clock chimes 11:30 a.m.)
(Flash from a camera)
1:05:09 - Baba in Hamirpur 1:05:58. 1954 Incident with Pukar and chairs
1:10:21 - Living Baba a bath in the later years (Jack Small)
1:13:05 - Using talc powder
1:13:38 - Using the same tricks as were used on masts
1:14:23 - Baba´s body smelled like a baby´s
1:14:35 - (Jack Small) ¨How much time between baths?¨
1:16:12 - the soles of Baba´s feet were shedding.
1:17:00 - Today is the day of my crucifixion
(Rano) washing Baba´s Hair
1:19:15 - (Jack Small) Last days washing Baba´s feet
1:20:38 - (Jack Small) ¨Baba liked to be in his underwear?¨
1:21:24 - ¨Aversion?¨ (David Fenster) Gustadji, Kaikobad
1:22:14 - (Jack Small) ¨Baba would look in his potty?¨
1:22:44 - Getting Chinese out of India? (Rick Flinn)
1:23:01 - (Stuart Shaeffer) ¨Arab Israeli War 1967?¨
1:24:00 - (Eruch takes microphone off, filming stopped)