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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221509-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1948
Country: Japan
Location: Hiroshima
TC Begins: 06:51:09
TC Ends: 06:55:14
Duration: 00:04:05
Post-WWII - 1948, Occupied Japan: Oriental Orchestra; Hiroshima Hospital MCU Japanese man in tee-shirt w/ earphone directing orchestra outdoors in front of microphones; people watching from behind. Low angle of Japanese woman & bell pull ?. Choir at microphones singing. MS & CUs. Japanese audience sitting on bleachers. 06:51:40 Bearded Japanese man w/ still camera. Low angle shot of US army officer on stage at microphones. Europeans on chairs watching, Japanese VIPs sitting behind. Rear shot of men sitting on speakers platform w/ audience below. Army officer in short pans speaking from behind table w/ mics on top. 06:52:18 Pan across crowd from rear to man directing choir & tilt up to tower w/ large bell. Woman pulling chord & doves released. MS of choir singing. 06:53:07 Pan over city buildings w/ low houses & few tall structures. Street scene of long street & people walking, pulling cart & trolleys past. Doctor (?) leading injured men & women on roof to look over city. Doctors show scars on back of man & arms to American man. 06:54:46 Woman shows scars on back; another arm. 06:55:07 CU sign: ?? Allied Personnel! Dr. Fujii Here! Dr. Fuji one of the six in the worldwide known ? Hiroshima by Mr. John Hersey, came back to the original place here after a lapse of three years since the A-Bomb. Expecting your kind callings.” (only 7 seconds of sign). 1948 ca; WW2 Military Occupation; WW2 Atomic Bomb Aftermath; NOTE: Dr. Masakazu Fuji was one of six people who John Hersey focused on in his book.