Is There Video Footage of Neville Goddard? - Research Leads

11 Dec Is There Video Footage of Neville Goddard? – Research Leads

Posted at 15:48h in Neville, Neville Historical Research, Neville History 2, NGH by Cool Wisdom

Neville Goddard had a show on Channel 11 (KTTV) LA Sunday afternoons between 2:00 and 2:30 there were 26 or more half-hour episodes in the mid 50’s.

I looked in the UCLA archives and contacted another TV archive museum, from what I gathered not all the shows on that channel were videotaped…and especially not in the 50s.

Have searched far and wide but believe the reason we can’t find the TV show from 1955 (not Pyne) is that they never existed on tape (pre-taping era).

Synopsis:

From Smithsonian article

Most of the leads end in 2018. Not only because of the death of Churchman. Churchman was working for/with Kogen and Kogen is … Hartwest Productions – Films Around the World and the final Mr. FAT-W Video company. Kogen passed away in 2017. The only independent seems to be Jim Markovic of Hypercube media. (also mentioned in Smithsonian article)

Here are episode list recovered from joepyne.com (last snapshot 2017 in the archives) recovered here Joe Pyne Show: Episodes with Neville Goddard?
Charles Churchman [passed 2018] – Obit – Article: My Friend Charlie Churchman
Taped over? – videotape was expensive, producers taped over “Pyne Show” episodes or cut them into one- and two-minute strips to use for commercials.
Hartwest Productions -Films Around the World – Alexander Kogan -film restorer -MR FAT W Video – last web capture of site is February 18, 2020
Hartwest Productions, Inc. c/o Films Around the World, Inc. 44-02 23rd Street — Studio 109 (Ground Floor) Long Island City, New York 11101 Telephone: (212) 599-9500
Jim Markovic – Hypercube Media 245 W 55th St, the New York, the New York 10019. (212) 643-0350 (Smithsonian article) also mentioned on Nitrateville.com
The Film Detective has only six hours of “The Joe Pyne” show streaming. See post on reddit by u/TheBishopDeeds
Forum discussion (2018)
Alexander Kogen on Linkedin – Obit September 20, 2017
UCLA from pdf Films-Around-the-World

TV Show

Freedom Barry

From Transcript Of “Freedom On The Beach” Lecture Presented By Freedom Barry Held At Cambria, Ca On Sept. 14-15, 1996

Freedom: No. There is no written biography of Neville.

____________: He had a TV show…?

Freedom: He did lectures for twenty six weeks on television
in Los Angeles.

__________: Are there any tapes?

Freedom: They didn’t have tapes in those days. That’s
a technology that’s been developed since…. However, the content of those
meetings, because those were little fifteen minute time slots, the content
of those meetings are on two thirty rpm disks. Do you have access to those,
Jenny? The records? (Answer inaudible) If we made audio tapes of each
of the records, could that be transcribed to further tapes? Would you
like those? I can do that, because I have both the records.

From Imagination Plus Faith

A Gentleman: You said something about your television shows. I am not familiar with them.

Neville: I had 26 in L.A. on Channel 11. There were thirteen, and then I had a break for about three months, and they brought me back for another thirteen. There were 26 half-hour shows; I did just what I am doing now. They gave me a lectern, and I simply sat at a desk really and spoke extemporaneously. There was no cue to bring me in. When they started the camera, I was seated at the desk. I didn’t have to walk off the stage; I didn’t have to come on the stage. There was no director. I was simply seated at the desk, and then the camera simply moved in on me, and then at the end of what I had to say it just faded and went to the one to follow me. I had enormous mail on it. It was a tremendous success as far as what I do, but they couldn’t use it to sell perfume. I was told that I had an audience in excess of about three hundred thousand every Sunday afternoon between 2:00 and 2:30. That is what I was told by the survey; they estimate so many who view. In those days it was not done on tape; it was all done live. In those days everything was live for TV. The tapes came in after my days so those things are just a memory now.

The Gentleman: It was a number of years ago?

Neville: Oh, yes. Now I only appear on an occasional panel, and that is fun if they let you go completely out and tell them what you know from experience, that is fun, especially when you get a very critical bunch around you who try to dethrone you or make fun. Most of my critics are those who are only speaking from theory, not from experience.

Radio Daily-television Daily – Volume 78 – Page 11 1957

Los Angeles- Neville lecturer and writer on metaphysics will star in 13 more half-hour segments for the “Neville” television series being produced by Fred Messenger, with shooting to start soon. Neville already has made 13 films for the series which originally was presented over KTTV. Neville will give….

The Billboard December 25, 1954

KTTV new Sunday show featuring Neville, philosopher, author and lecturer.

Joe Pyne Show

Now the panel mentioned above believe is Pyne.

This is all I have dredged up so far about Neville and Pyne

Joe Pyne Show: Episodes with Neville Goddard?

A. Ramana

From American Mystic A. Ramana’s Meeting with Neville Goddard

During that time I also met Neville Goddard (1905 to 1972). He was giving lectures at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre out on Wilshire Boulevard and a friend of mine had invited me along to hear him. Well, all of the time in Unity I’d been looking for someone who had had a spiritual awakening and, lo and behold, here was someone who obviously had.

After his lecture, I went up to talk to Neville and he was very gracious, very open. I told him about my involvement in Unity and he invited me to come back again. He was doing talks on a weekly basis, but occasionally he would do it more than once a week. I started reading his books and listening to him.

Neville was occasionally interviewed on television, and the TV talk show called The Joe Pyne Show (which ran from 1965 to 1967), had Neville on quite often. Joe Pyne would put people on the “hot seat,” but he didn’t do that with Neville, because Neville had proven his knowledge and his understanding about the Bible, and Joe Pyne would have Neville on to see if someone knew what they were talking about with the Bible. On one show, I watched Neville with three fundamentalist Christians who all had their Bibles out. Neville was without a Bible, but he had it in his head. As they debated, they would open their bible and start reading from it. Neville would say, “Oh that’s the King James, that’s the Revised Standard or that‘s the New English, whatever it happened to be. He knew the Bible like no one I have ever met before or since.

Neville would explain the nuances of differences between the various translations of the Bible. You would ask, which translation is correct? How do you know that this one is not the way it should be? Neville was not arrogant, though he knew not only the nuances of the Bible, but the actual Greek words in the New Testament and the Hebrew words used in many of the most famous biblical verses of the Old Testament.

Mentions in Neville Lectures

Joe Pyne mentioned in lecture (with misspelling) “The Bible’s Mystery”

“I have often wondered how many have understood my story to the point of acceptance. Many times I felt there were those who did, only to discover they did not. I visited one such friend today. He has lovely home in Beverly Hills, with a comfortable income. He and his wife listen ever night to the Joe Pines of the world and are afraid to remain in California because they think it is going to sink. So they have decided to move to Arizona and wait out the interval of time they have left here, which shouldn’t be too long as they are both in their late seventies.”

Research Notes:

From Smithsonian article

Here are episode list recovered from joepyne.com (last snapshot 2017 in the archives) recovered here Joe Pyne Show: Episodes with Neville Goddard?
Charles Churchman [passed 2018] – Obit – Article: My Friend Charlie Churchman
Taped over? – videotape was expensive, producers taped over “Pyne Show” episodes or cut them into one- and two-minute strips to use for commercials.
Hartwest Productions -Films Around the World – Alexander Kogan -film restorer -MR FAT W Video – last web capture of site is February 18, 2020
Hartwest Productions, Inc. c/o Films Around the World, Inc. 44-02 23rd Street — Studio 109 (Ground Floor) Long Island City, New York 11101 Telephone: (212) 599-9500
Jim Markovic – Hypercube Media 245 W 55th St, the New York, the New York 10019. (212) 643-0350 (Smithsonian article) also mentioned on Nitrateville.com
The Film Detective has only six hours of “The Joe Pyne” show streaming. See post on reddit by u/TheBishopDeeds
Forum discussion (2018)
Alexander Kogen on Linkedin – Obit September 20, 2017
UCLA from pdf Films-Around-the-World

Churchman – Kogan

Charles Churchman – Churchman is one of several techies, archivists and vintage-TV fans who hope to save “The Joe Pyne Show” from history’s scrapheap. He’s the mad scientist of the bunch, a self-taught engineer who can transform strips of moldy, decades-old videotape into crisp digital images. He first heard about Pyne from his client Alexander Kogan Jr., president of Films Around the World, a decade ago. Kogan, whose firm restores and markets classic movies and TV programs, had discovered a trove of long-lost tapes in his collection: more than 100 episodes of Pyne’s once-famous talk show on reels of two-inch videotape that weighed 28 pounds apiece.
Many were in bad shape, the iron oxide that fixed the image to its acetate base flaking off. Churchman, the video savant, restored a few at a time. He has yet to work on dozens of tapes that feature interviews with some of the most polarizing figures of the 1960s.
Yet his show disappeared after Pyne died. Because videotape was expensive, producers taped over “Pyne Show” episodes or cut them into one- and two-minute strips to use for commercials—the same process that destroyed the first decade of Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show.” “It was a shame, and not just because he invented the sort of angry TV talk we see so much today. He was a masterful interviewer,” says Kogan of Films Around the World. Kogan’s New York City warehouse holds film, video and digital versions of everything from Nosferatu to 1940s musicals to cheesy soft porn to Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter.
After he found hundreds of Pyne tapes in a collection he’d bought from another firm, he pulled a handful and salvaged them. The rest—including potentially valuable releases signed by Pyne’s celebrity guests—wound up in filing cabinets and cardboard boxes in Providence, Rhode Island. “Then we shipped them to a storage space in the basement of the Quad Cinema in Manhattan. We also had tractor-trailers full of stuff in Long Island City.” All those moldering tapes and documents represented a unique slice of ’60s America: Pyne’s talks with American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey, authors Tom Wolfe and Jacqueline Susann, wrestling kingpin Freddie Blassie, stripper Candy Barr, segregationist Georgia governor Lester Maddox, and many more.It’s hard telling who else might be squaring off with Pyne in the stack of tapes in Churchman’s workshop, near Philadelphia. Many are unmarked, unwatched for half a century.With help from Churchman and another tech whiz, Jim Markovic, Kogan intends to save as many Pyne shows as he can. After that he’ll sell them on DVD, or maybe stream them. His fondest hope is to resurrect Pyne on TV Land or another cable channel. “He deserves it,” Kogan says, “and I want to be the guy who saved Joe Pyne for a new generation of people who watch TV.”He would love to come across a fabled exchange between Pyne and Frank Zappa. According to Pyne lore, he invited his audience to “Say hello to a musician—and I use that term loosely—representing a rock ’n’ roll band known as the Mothers of Invention.”Zappa, 24, nodded to the booing crowd. Pyne looked him over and said, “I guess your long hair makes you a woman.”Zappa shrugged. “I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.”

Hartwest Productions

Archived site down from 2017

“The Joe Pyne Show” was seen on Saturday and Tuesday evenings over KTTV in Los Angeles, for a total of four and a half hours. It was nationally syndicated by Hartwest Televison, Inc. as an hour and a half program. At the same time, his radio show aired for four hours a day on KLAC radio, and was syndicated nationally by Hartwest Productions, Inc. as a daily one-hour program, on nearly 350 radio stations nationally. In 1966, he was rated “No. 1” in a host of markets, including Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, Spartanburg/Greenville, N.C., Asheville N.C., Miami, FL, New York, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Wichita.

Welcome to the Joe Pyne web site, created by Hartwest Productions, Inc., the original producer/syndicator of both The Joe Pyne Television Show and The Joe Pyne Radio Show, from 1965, when they were purchased from Metromedia, Inc., to 1971, when Joe died from lung cancer. BOTH shows were rated #1 in most of their markets; we believe that this was the first and only time that such remarkable success was achieved. This site highlights much of the information which is also available on the the website of Films Around the World, Inc., the parent company of Hartwest Productions, www.filmsaroundtheworld.com. Hartwest Productions, Inc. c/o Films Around the World, Inc. 44-02 23rd Street — Studio 109 (Ground Floor) Long Island City, New York 11101 Telephone: (212) 599-9500 Facsimile: (212) 599-6040
Both of Hartwest’s Joe Pyne Television Show and Joe Pyne Radio Show were produced between 1965 and 1971. Both series were purchased by Hartwest Productions, Inc. from Metromedia, Inc. in 1965. The shows were produced in Los Angeles in separate facilities. The 1/4″ magnetic reel-to-reel tape masters for the radio programs, and the and 2″ videotapes for the television programs, were sent to Hartwest in New York, where they were edited into complete programs, which were then syndicated — i.e., licensed for broadcast to independent television and radio stations — nationally by Hartwest’s sales force.
After his death, Hartwest purchased all rights to both series in perpetuity, from his Estate. Hartwest has none of the pre-1965 television programs, which either were not recorded for subsequent syndication (delayed) broadcasts, or if recorded, were either subsequently lost or destroyed; we believe that because the 2″ videotapes were so expensive at that time, that they were recorded over after broadcast.
The catalog for the television show which follows on this website is based on 120 90-minute 2″ tape masters; generally, there are three 30-minute segments per tape, but a few have only two segments, and a few have four segments. The catalog lists 332 separate interviews, not including the “Beef Box” segments, in which audience members questioned (and confronted) the guests. There are many more than 120 tapes in the inventory; since there is no catalog other than the one set out on this website, we do not know if the additional tapes represent interviews that were not included in the catalog, or if they are separate segments that were edited into the 90-minute programs. The 2″ master tapes are in color, and are relatively high-quality, in a technical sense. However, the adhesive which binds the metal oxides to the tape base, is now more than fifty years old, and when the tapes are played the oxides tend to flake off, seriously degrading the video and sound information. As a result, we treat each videotape playing as if it is a final “suicide run” across the tape machine heads, after which the tape is no longer useful.
Therefore, we make a digital master when the tape is played, from which unlimited clones can be made. The cost of the transfer, together with tape stock for the digital master and clones, is approximately $700 per 90-minute program, with cost variations reflecting changes in the cost of stock, and any minor restoration which may be required. We generally do not transfer on speculation, but do so only when a third party who has a particular interest in a program or in one of its segments, pays a fee which covers the transfer cost; DVD screeners of the tapes which have been transferred, are loaned, not sold, to them.
Hartwest has more than 1,000 1/4″ reel-to-reel magnetic radio tapes, probably reflecting the longer runtime of the daily radio programs, but since they are uninventoried and undated, we can only say for certainty that they were made prior to 1971.
About a third of the reel storage boxes have engineers’ hand-written notes identifying the guests; this website includes a catalog of those guests. Sound recordings produced after February 15, 1972, can be protected from infringement under federal copyright law, but there is no such protection for earlier audio recordings such as the Pyne radio programs.
However, in the case of interview programs, the written transcripts of Joe’s side of the interviews, can be registered for copyright. In addition, they would be subject to New York State’s copyright law, since the final broadcasts were created in New York by Hartwest employees, which protects them in perpetuity. The television programs, being visual recordings, were created well within the “automatic good copyright” cutoff date in the 1978 Copyright Act, and if they had not been previously “published” — and none of the Pyne television programs have been “published” — they are good copyright and can be registered for copyright. Some of the tapes we have transferred, have a copyright notice in the name of Metromedia; as successor in interest, Hartwest inserts its own copyright notice when a tape is transferred.
We found hundreds — maybe even a thousand — of mimeographed release forms, signed by the guests, which uniformly give Hartwest reuse/rebroadcast rights for the interviews, in perpetuity.

Films Around the World

Films Around The World, Inc. began its life 1n 1930 as a U.S. theatrical distributor of arthouse movies, and evolved into a sales agency company specializing in the foreign licensing of independent American feature films. In 1985, it was purchased by Alexander W. Kogan, Jr. and Barry Tucker. They have vastly expanded its content library, which is now one of the largest remaining independent American primarily good-copyright content libraries, with more than 500 feature films, more than 2,500 hours of radio programming, nearly 1,000 dramatic anthology televison programs, 500 “Soundies,” more than 150,000 classic radio programs, hundreds of celebrity interviews, and remake rights to more than 200 movies. In 2015, agreement was reached for the acquisition of two PD movie libraries, with approximately 1,000 movies in all; they will be be digitally mastered, upgraded, and released on the Mr. FAT-W Video label.The company, often referred to as “FATW” in the trade, rebranded itself in 1999 by creating its copyrighted and trademarked “Mr. FAT-W” character and animation logo. It has begun releasing content through its own “Mr. FAT-W Video” labels; the first, the green and black label, has a lower price point than the new silver and blue label, which will be used exclusively for FATW’s classic television programming. The green and black label releases both FATW-owned movies, and movies owned by others, on a distribution basis. A third label, “Mr. FAT-W Audio,” releases some of FATW’s huge library of radio programming on CD. As of June, 2017, there were about 800 titles available on the DVD labels, and about 160 titles available on the CD label. We are adding about 30 DVD titles a month, so at any one point in time, the site is incomplete.FATW licenses its content literally “around the world;” its DVD and CD labels are distributed through Amazon.com, its wholesale catalog customers, and through hundreds of video and audio Internet sites. We are building an eBay store that will eventually sell all of our DVD and CD titles.In May of 2014, FATW moved to larger quarters in its Long Island City location, and with the installation of both Business Ethernet and Fibre Optic connections, can rapidly add both video and audio titles, with the goal of becoming one of the largest sources of “classic” entertainment programming on the web.
From Films-Around-the-World
We own or distribute one of the largest remaining primarily good copyright entertainment
libraries, with more than 500 feature films, more than 2,500 radio programs, and more than 1,000
television programs. We have a great deal of materials on deposit with UCLA, and in public
storage facilities; an unknown amount of materials have been donated to various archives,
frequently to garner income tax charitable deductions for the donors; our own experience is that
the archives rarely troubled themselves with requiring chains of title back to the copyright
owners, for such donations.
FATW YouTube 2017
The Film Detectives current archive of Joe Pyne
Fred H. Messenger Producer “Neville Show”