From the archive record
Many of these grand buildings in Kolkata were built in the colonial era and it sill stands interspersed with other buildings. Calcutta served as a capital of the British Raj which extended over almost all of present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The writer's building: During the British rule, this building served as the office of the writers. The original structure of this iconic building was designed in 1777 by Thomas Lyon and over the years, various additions have been made to it. 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,