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Footage: Personalities - Mahatma Gandhi - 1948

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Clip Id: fopemg1948011601_2930_4401 Length: 00min 38sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 16 Producer: Source: UCLA Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948011701_2736_3605 Length: 00min 50sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 17 Producer: Paramount News Source: Title/Description: First Pictures From India: Gandhi Breaks Five-day Fast Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948012001_ma Length: 01min 06sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 20 Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948012101_ma Length: 00min 26sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 21 Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948012901_ma Length: 00min 11sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 29 Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948013001_ma Length: 00min 12sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 30 Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948013002_ma Length: 00min 34sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 30 Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948013101_0405_1001 Length: 01min 58sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 31 Producer: Welt im Film Source: Title/Description: Gandhis Letzter Weg Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948013120_2737_3605 Length: 03min 00sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 31 Producer: Paramount News Source: Title/Description: India Without Gandhi... Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948015001_0205_0906 Length: 00min 27sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948012201_0122_0801 Length: 00min 39sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 22 Producer: British Movietonews Ltd. Source: Title/Description: "Gandhi Breaks His Fast" - Crowd shots assembled in a square; Maulana Azad addressing crowds; in grounds of home where Gandhi stays, Birla House in New Delhi, people pass open French windows, inside can be seen Gandhi lying on a bed fasting; several shots of him and passing people. Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948013001_0123_0801 Length: 00min 56sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January 30 Producer: British Movietonews Ltd. Source: Title/Description: "Gandhi Assasinated" - Crowds at prayer meeting; Gandhi walks through crowds, assisted; Gandhi with Jinnah; several shots Gandhi in grounds of Lord and Lady ... all » Mountbatten's residence – Government House; Mahatma Gandhi with his hand on Lady Mountbatten's shoulder walks towards house; Birla House in New Delhi, crowds filing past french windows during Gandhi's fast, shots of Gandhi on his bed. Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948020501_0124_0801 Length: 03min 21sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 February 5 Producer: British Movietonews Ltd. Source: Title/Description: "Funeral Of India's Greatest Citizen" Shot list: Lancers along streets towards India Gate in background; Indian soldier on guard; crowds assembled outside Birla House, in the grounds; ... all » Gandhi's body lying on balcony; beginning of procession through streets, led by Bengal lancers, RAF, Navy and army troops pull bier; huge crowds assembled along route; bier passing through dense crowds, on bier are Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Sardar Balder Singh, Acharya Kripalani; crowds following; Lord and Lady Mountbatten, with the Lord and Lady Brabourne walking towards ghat; huge crowds following the cortege; at the ghat, huge crowds around where Gandhi lies; police with truncheons try to keep crowd back; Gandhi on pyre; various shots of cremation, crowds surge around; blazing pyre, mixing to ashes lift; Lord and Lady Mountbatten and others during burning, seated on ground; ghat encircled with barbed wire, public walk pass; inside circle followers throw themselves on ground and kiss same; ashes on funeral pyre, shows priest sorting amongst the ashes for remains of Gandhi's bones.

Clip Id: fopemg1948021701_0125_0801 Length: 02min 04sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 February 17 Producer: British Movietonews Ltd. Source: Title/Description: "Gandhi's Ashes borne to Holy River" Shot list: Crowds at river Ganges; Lord Mountbatten (in civvy suit) alights from plane, greeted by ... all » Sarojini Naidu; Mountbatten being garlanded, walks across road, with Mrs. Naidu and the Brabournes; train carrying the ashes enters Allahabad station; urn of ashes carried by Nehru and Sardar Patel towards truck; ashes placed on amphibious truck; shots of procession through the streets, crowds around truck; plane flies low and drops flower petals etc., preceded by Mountbatten in boats; Indians in the river Ganges; Indian troops march with rifles reversed.

Clip Id: fopemg1948015002_1406_2501 Length: 00min 17sec Language: French Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948015003_2815_4101 Length: 00min 29sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January Producer: U-I News Source: Title/Description: India Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948015004_ma Length: 01min 05sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 January Producer: Source: Title/Description: Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948021101_0404_1001 Length: 01min 23sec Language: German Color: Black and white Date: 1948 February 11 Producer: Welt im Film Source: Title/Description: Welt im Film: Abschied von Mahatma Gandhi (Farewell from Mahatma Gandhi) Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948025001_0206_0907 Length: 00min 50sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 February Producer: Pathé News Source: Title/Description: Gandhi Dead Shot list:

Clip Id: fopemg1948025002_0806_1201 Length: 02min 04sec Language: English Color: Black and white Date: 1948 February Producer: Source: Title/Description: The World Mourns Mahatma Gandhi, Slain by Assassin. Shot list: