Floods in Calcutta: archival footage of city being deluged, in Kolkata

From the archive record

This is Calcutta in the late 80's. Situated in coastal cities, Kolkata has been considered as world's nine most flood-prone place. School boys and girls in uniform crossing the road like a normal day. The water level reaches knee length, submerged in water, some men are seen standing still or perhaps watching the camera person. Dongas, rickshaws, ambassadors taxi, Kolkata local bus painted red, gypsies can be seen. This footage is part of the 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 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format,