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DVD: $9.95
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Directed By: Stephanie Argy & Alec Boehm
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Running Time: 0:11
Content Rating: GA (General Audience)
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Genres: Short Films >> General :: Sports >> Baseball :: Comedy >> General |
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For decades, historians have searched for evidence of Mahatma Gandhi’s top-secret trip to the United States in 1933. At President Roosevelt’s request, all contemporary accounts were suppressed and no records have ever been found – until film historians unearthed this never-before-seen newsreel footage of Gandhi’s legendary visit to Yankee Stadium.
Based on a short story by Chet Williamson that originally appeared in the New Yorker in 1983, Gandhi at the Bat is a mock newsreel account of the little-known (and totally fictional) incident when Mohandas K. Gandhi pinch-hit for the New York Yankees. The 11-minute movie includes over 75 effects shots, done by the directors themselves, which transform the actual shooting location (a minor league ballpark in Bakersfield, California) into a faithful recreation of Yankee Stadium as it was over seventy years ago.