Mahatma Gandhi Talks - First Television Interview (30 April 1931)

Hear the voice of peace break the silence in Mahatma Gandhi Talks - First Television Interview (30 April 1931), a historic archival film capturing the Indian pacifist leader’s debut on screen, interviewed at his Borsad home by a Fox Movietone News journalist. This mid-century gem crackles to life: Gandhi, clad in homespun khadi, sits cross-legged, his gentle gaze meeting the lens as grainy footage rolls—April 30, 1931, a day etched in time. The camera hums as he speaks—soft, deliberate—words of nonviolence spilling from a mud-walled room, a spinning wheel at rest nearby. The journalist probes, Gandhi muses—on India’s struggle, freedom’s dream—a quiet force ripples through static and flicker. A mid-20th-century lens on a 1931 milestone, it’s the Mahatma’s soul laid bare for a new medium. Archival Moments revives this tender talk—subscribe to hear more from the echoes of history!