From the archive record
Ghantar ghar clock tower in the city where the 1857 Mutiny started, in Uttar Pradesh and close to the city of Delhi. This is the heart of the old British Raj and now a modern but crowded bustling city. Netaji Subhash Chand Bose gave a speech here. The clock tower was built-in 1913 during the British period. This time piece was installed in 1914. The speciality of this clock tower (Ghanta Ghar) is that the sound of the pendulum reaches a circumference of fifteen kilometres. Abdul Azeez was the caretaker of this clock tower and still his his next generation taking care of it. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery