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Reconstruction in Tokyo (Project 11026)

Reel Number: 221080-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1947

Country: Japan

Location: Tokyo

TC Begins: 02:18:20

TC Ends: 02:24:33

Duration: 00:06:13

Reconstruction in Tokyo ( Project 11026 ) Two bombed out very large homes, workmen look at salvaged bricks. Various shots remains of palatial home gutted by fire, corn growing in ruins, woman walking past shacks, two women and child in front of improvised homes - shanty town. Remains of St Luke’s Church, men on scaffold repair church. Tin and wooden housing where civilians live. Sign “First Step in the Restoration of Holy Trinity Church”. Japanese carpenters sawing wood with primitive tools, workmen construct wooden house, carpenter nailing shingles on roof. Concrete building with sign “Yamagata Garage”. Workman lays bed of crushed stone. Torii Shrine - damaged statues and shrine ruins. Good quality. 1940s Japan - Post-WWII;

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