Neville watches Goodbye Mr. Chips and is moved to tears

Neville went to the cinema the night before to see a remake of Goodbye Mr. Chips, in which the wife is killed by a German bomb in London rather than dying in childbirth as in the Robert Donat original, and found himself moved to a tear though he knew it was only acting.
Date (happened)
9 November 1969
unresolved
  1. 9 November 1969 estimated · probable · preferred
    Source The Kingdom of God: The One Bodydelivery claim on lecture nid 1938 (1969-11-10, stated, probable, read from source dateline) minus one day, per passage 549495 'I went to see a picture last night'
    Why Existing d0 claim only carries qualifier=circa/relative with no year; this supplies the finer date the packet supports.
    Reasoning Passage 549495 places the cinema visit as 'last night' relative to the platform. The lecture's own delivery date is stated (probable) as 1969-11-10, so the visit falls on 1969-11-09; the derived claim cannot exceed the probable ceiling of the delivery claim it rests on. The processing notes independently confirm the film described (wife killed by a German bomb, in colour) matches the 1969 remake rather than the 1939 Donat original, corroborating that the lecture and the event share the same year.
  2. last night relative
    Source The Kingdom of God: The One Body ¶58"last night", told in Kingdom God One Body (nid 1938)
    Said as last night
    counted from The Kingdom of God: The One Body
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Robert Donat
Sources

Source

  • The Kingdom of God: The One Body ¶58 (I went to see a picture last night, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and there was only one little moment that called for a little tear. I knew I was watching a picture, I knew it’s all acting before me…and the news came that she was killed.)