110 years after the birth of Meher Baba, Meher Baba Film Archive is pleased to launch the archive collection. A definitive collection of Special Limited Edition DVD box sets of many films of Meher Baba and his disciples for you to share and enjoy. Featuring film restored to a new higher quality standard, some of it never seen before, accompanying articles, production notes, photographs, technical restoration information, and library boxes.

Sales of each volume will pay for its restoration and manufacture costs with all the remaining proceeds going to fund the Meher Baba Film Archive's medium term 80 year Meher Baba Film Conservation Program, 2002 - 2082.

Work is underway on volumes 2 and 3 which will go on sale in 2007.

You can buy volume 1 for £20 (GB Pounds) by visiting Pete’s secure e-commerce site. Click on http://www.eelpie.com then select MUSIC followed by MEHER BABA.

To commemorate fifty years of Meher Baba's Universal Prayer, the Baba film classic O Parvardigar has been painstakingly restored to fantastic clarity, and extended to nearly twice its length. This stunning new film includes additional footage in an exciting widescreen format with 5.1 Dolby digital and PCM audio.

The new film, the very first widescreen film of Meher Baba, was premiered at Meher Baba Oceanic on July 20th 2003 - to Meher Baba's disciple and Avatar Meher Baba Trust chairman, Bhau Kalchuri, and a large audience.

It is now released, with a host of special features (see below), as volume 1 of this definitive DVD series on Meher Baba and his disciples.

The DVD is All Region, PAL and NTSC. It is commercially pressed like a regular movie, rather than written on less durable writeable DVDs. It plays for about 65 minutes, including 20 minutes exclusive audio of Pete Townshend talking and playing at the Third Amartithi, 32 years ago.

This collectible DVD box set is in a Limited Edition of 7,000. The first 2,000 only are numbered by hand. Music fans and fans of Pete Townshend and The Who will also be acquiring this DVD - so order early to avoid disappointment.

The price is £30 (British Pounds) plus post and packaging. All box sets are shipped airmail. After film restoration and manufacture costs are repaid from sales, all the remaining proceeds fund Conservation and Restoration of Meher Baba films.

Order online from http://www.eelpie.com

From April, we can receive orders by mail for shipment within the US.

a four page illustrated technical contents booklet;

32 page lavishly illustrated booklet by award-winning designers Mike Mcinnerney and Dinah Lone, with exclusive articles about the prayer, the song and the films - by Pete Townshend and the other film archivists;

two postcards of The Master's Prayer;

special DVD sleeve,

double-sided DVD with five menus and a host of exciting special features.

Special features include:

the original O Parvardigar film,

fascinating videos of three stages in the restoration of the old film and the making of the new film,

four exclusive audio tracks including two previously unreleased live recordings of Pete Townshend introducing and performing "Bargain" and "Time Is Passing" at Baba's Samadhi, at the time of the Third Amartithi, or memorial to Meher Baba's passing, January 31, 1972.

several printable pages on 3 pdf files,

photo album, technical notes on film restoration, sheet music.

Existing shots of Meher Baba have been extensively restored, special attention being given to Baba's natural face color and movements. At their correct speed, original shots run 50% longer than the song.

Baba is positioned more centrally on the screen to avoid His head or hands being cropped: not by the original camera but by subsequent procedures or by the television itself. We correct this, sometimes using parts of the image never seen before.

New 35mm, 16mm and 8mm footage is added to enhance the film's dynamic pace. The song also runs, for the first time, at the exact speed of the original recording, in both PCM stereo and Dolby 5.1 surround sound.