Scraping off shellac from lacquer insect sticks in Jharkhand, India

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Slow motion view of the farmers scraping lac from lac sticks generated of the host tree Palash state of Jharkhand. These lac sticks are secretion of the insect Kerria Lacca which later on transformed kerria lacca into bangles and various other project. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. W