In 1937, a 26-year-old Indian aboard, in a ship sailing from New York to Dublin, decided to make a documentary on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Over the next few years he travelled some 100, 000 miles collecting 50, 000 feet of film footage, with the expectation and then the outbreak of the Second World War jeopardising his search. The footage had been shot by about a hundred different cameramen, over three decades across four continents. In 1940, he edited this ...
