In this extraordinary footage from 1931, the legendary Indian Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi arrives in London, England to a crowd of enthusiastic onlookers.
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Full title reads: "Gandhi is Here. The Indian Nationalist leader - whose personality is intriguing the whole world, arrives."
Marseilles, France.
Mohandas K Gandhi is seen on board a ship coming into harbour.
Shots of Gandhi on board ship. He is with Miss Madeline Slade, a British follower.
Shots of the Mahatma and party coming down gangplank from ship.
Shots of him with journalists outside building.
Folkestone, Kent.
Boat comes into dock. Miss Slade and other members of Gandhi's party come ashore followed by the Congress leader in his traditional dress. He walks with others to waiting motorcar. MS of Gandhi in car.
London.
Crowds wait in rain. Lots of umbrellas and Indian people waiting for the arrival of Gandhi.
Gandhi comes out of front of building. A crowd of people are waiting for him. He is offered a microphone but prefers not to speak to newsreels.
LS of Gandhi standing on balcony of Kingsley Hall in Poplar where is he staying. Some closer shots. Shots of crowds cheering.
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Full title reads: "Gandhi is Here. The Indian Nationalist leader - whose personality is intriguing the whole world, arrives."
Marseilles, France.
Mohandas K Gandhi is seen on board a ship coming into harbour.
Shots of Gandhi on board ship. He is with Miss Madeline Slade, a British follower.
Shots of the Mahatma and party coming down gangplank from ship.
Shots of him with journalists outside building.
Folkestone, Kent.
Boat comes into dock. Miss Slade and other members of Gandhi's party come ashore followed by the Congress leader in his traditional dress. He walks with others to waiting motorcar. MS of Gandhi in car.
London.
Crowds wait in rain. Lots of umbrellas and Indian people waiting for the arrival of Gandhi.
Gandhi comes out of front of building. A crowd of people are waiting for him. He is offered a microphone but prefers not to speak to newsreels.
LS of Gandhi standing on balcony of Kingsley Hall in Poplar where is he staying. Some closer shots. Shots of crowds cheering.
BRITISH PATHÉ'S STORY
Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it.
Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance.
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/
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00:00Here he is at last, the mystery man of India, our first glimpse as the Rajputana came alongside at Marseille.
00:22And there's a woman of whom you've probably all read but never seen in a picture, Miss Madeline Slade,
00:28the English daughter of an admiral, who now prefers to be known as Melara Benn.
00:33She's one of Mr. Gandhi's most devout disciples.
00:37She's leading the way ashore now, and just behind her comes Mr. Gandhi, dressed as he said he would be,
00:45in just his loincloth, even in the chilly climes of Europe.
00:49And he's carrying with him his pots and pans, which he declared at the customs.
00:53He was trotted around Marseille to several receptions, and made one or two speeches which rather frightened the French authorities.
01:00But when asked to speak into the sound film microphone, he said, I think not.
01:05And so we go on our way to England.
01:08Well, here we are at Folkestone, with the Biarritz coming alongside, and as Gandhi said, in proper English weather, pouring rain and bitterly cold.
01:22Miss Slade was the first ashore to tend to the luggage, that is, the goat's milk and cetera.
01:28She was followed by Gandhi's son, and then came the little man, still scantily clad, but with an extremely wet blanket around his tiny frame.
01:40I'm sure he must have been frozen, we were, in thick overcoats.
01:45He picked his way through the puddles along the quay side, and he was wearing sandals by the way,
01:51to the waiting motor car, for he'd decided that he'd rather go up to London by road.
02:00He insisted on sitting up in the front seat with the driver. He said that he could see better that way.
02:06So he tucked himself in, and so off to London, whilst his followers went by the boat train.
02:13In town, quite a lot of people had waited in the pouring rain, outside the friend's meeting house on the Euston Road,
02:20to see what he really looked like.
02:23But at first, they were quite disappointed, because he went in the back way.
02:27But shortly afterwards, he left by the front way.
02:34And then they really did see quite a lot of him, even his knees.
02:46No, he won't speak into the microphone.
02:49And so to his poplar home, where we leave this bizarre little man,
03:04whose coming has caused so much comment, complete with loin cloth, spinning wheel and goat's milk,
03:10feeling sure that he cannot complain of his reception, or the publicity he has received.
03:15From which, by the way, we always understood that he shrank.