The back-story behind the writing of the film

In 1931 Baba and the mandali were staying at the home of actress, playwright, and screenwriter Margaret Mayo at Croton Harmon on Hudson, New York. On December 3rd Mayo suggested to Baba that he work with her to create a scenario for a film conveying his theme that she could show to producer Harry Aitken. Baba immediately agreed and sat down with her to work on it. In an hour as he dictated on his alphabet board, she sketched out the film scenario that came to be the basis of several screenplays. It was initially given the title A Touch of Maya, though it later came to be known as How It All Happened when it expanded into a larger film by 1934.

Baba at Croton-on-Hudson 1931

Several Hollywood producers and writers became involved, including Gabriel Pascal, Karl Vollmöller, Garrett Fort, and Hy Kraft.

The film was never made but Baba said that it would one day be.

A lot is written about the film project in the book Meher Baba's Early Messages to the West.

The first filmmaker who saw the film scenario was Harry Aitken. Here is a bit about him.      

Harry Aitken

Harry Aitken, who accumulated a personal fortune from The Birth of a Nation, masterminded the July 1915 agreement to organize the illustrious Triangle Pictures Corporation. Auspicious but ill-fated, Triangle was envisioned as a prestige studio based on the producing abilities of ace filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas Ince, and Mack Sennett. The studio suffered from bloat, and lost all three of its principle producers in 1917. Triangle gradually dwindled, and was swallowed by the emerging Hollywood studios. The triangle-shaped Culver City lot was sold to Goldwyn Pictures, later to become the home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Triangle's high-profile contracts were absorbed in the rise of Paramount, and Aitken became a forgotten would-be mogul.

Entrance to the complex where Baba wrote the scenario