Gandhi Is Persuaded To Talk! (1931 Fox Movietone Newsreel)

This is a footage of Mahatma Gandhi, the famous Indian independence movement leader, filmed in India on June 2nd, 1931. This is the oldest surviving sound film of Gandhi. It contains the scene of Gandhi, and an interviewer from American presses. Unfortunately, the interview is very superficial, and somewhat silly, but still a historical document.

(Rough transcription below.)

Interviewer: Mr. Gandhi, you might tells us please when you expect to leave for London for the second Round Table Conference?

Gandhi: I have no notion. And I don't expect to go there if the Hindu Muslim question is not satisfactorily solved.

Interviewer: If England grants your demands, Mr. Gandhi, do you intend to have complete prohibition in the new Indian States?

Gandhi: Oh, yes.

Interviewer: Absolute prohibition.

Gandhi: Absolute.

Interviwer: And do you intend also to abolish child marriages?

Gandhi: I would very much like to even before.

Interviewer: If England does not grant your demands, are you prepared to return to jail again?

Gandhi: I am always prepared to return to jail.

Interviewer: Would you be prepared to die in the cause of Indias independence.

Gandhi: It is a bad question.

Interviewer: If you go to the second Round Table Conference, will you go in native Indian dress or will you prefer European dress?

Gandhi: I shall certainly not be found in European dress and if the weather permitted or I should present myself exactly as I am today.

Interviewer: And if the King of England invited you to dinner at Buckingham Palace you would go in customary Indian dress?

Gandhi: In any other dress I should be most discurtious to him because I should be artifical.

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[NathanBForrest1776]

"I am always prepared to return to jail" takes balls to be that courageous and strong. hats off gandhi, from mississippi

[gangajumna]

sorry ben kingsley looks like gandhiji,

[TheDileepMT]

Please dont use any bad words here,if it is a reply to other who tried to spam us,please be patient ,Gandhi showed us what he meant .Mahatma Gandhi !!!! No more words needed !

[emarets]

fuck all that fucking asshole peoples whos talking fucking bad about the indian king Gandhi

[emarets]

fuck all that fucking asshole people whos talk fucking bad about the indian king Gandhi

[Those2menoverthere]

@kanchisasi Wow, you sure know how to spell don't you. Good god how are people like you so fucking retarded?

[kanchisasi]

@Those2menoverthere u fucki.. khunt

[kanchisasi]

@Those2menoverthere U mother FU....

[mamarcus]

I cannot make out the first word in response to the question about what he would wear if invited to dinner at Buckinham Palace. It sounds like "inevitably". The rest is:

"...lest I be discourteous to them. I should be artificial." Can anyone hear exactly what the word is? I don't think it's a silly question at all. He put clothing at the center of the freedom struggle!

[knightly65]

@turnfootsherlock before you use my nationality in the same sentence or breath as a swear word think twice because you have only degraded yourself by insulting the memory of a deceased person.