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Post-WWII Japan, Hiroshima - Physical Damage, General View

Reel Number: 220837-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: Japan

Location: Hiroshima

TC Begins: 05:18:59

TC Ends: 05:33:55

Duration: 00:14:56

Post-WWII Japan, Hiroshima - Physical Damage, General View, Mar-Apr46 Slate. LS street which acted as a firebreak - rubble & burned-over area Across the street the structure which was not affected by fire. Various buildings in various states of destruction. Pan LS over razed city with occasional building still standing. 05:19:39 Temma Grade School (? ). Roofless buildings; some standing walls; stumps of trees. High angle of river & little still standing. Pan across, mountains in background. Gutted buildings; bridges standing. Several people walking on empty streets below. 05:22:47 Closer high angle of devastation w/ people walking, pulling carts. 05:23:22 Twisted steel framework of warehouse or factory. 05:24:11 MCU of stone marker w/ blast marks. Tombstones in cemetery - CU red brick which has lodged under the tombstone at moment of blast. Kikutsuji Cemetery. 05:25:19 View across river to partially standing factory w/ two tall chimneys. Teikoku Textile Factory. Higashi Police Station. Cemetery & remains of a church. 05:28:28 Four-bay greenhouse near main university building 05:28:59 CU Clock, whose face has almost been obscured by smoke, but whose hands mark the instant of the atom bomb detonation: 8:13. 05:29:09 Transformer tower. Exterior building w/ steel roof & interior. Collapsed light steel frame roof and brick walls and complete destruction of combustible debris by fire. Other wrecked buildings and GVs destruction. POV in street; people walking past. 05:32:10 Crossing damaged bridge. w/ metal & concrete (?) lifted. 05:32:31 LS of domed building remains. Other buildings; river bank. 05:33:01 Remains of Japanese Field Artillery equipment located in the Japanese Military Compound of Hiroshima. 05:33:29 Superficially undamaged buildings. Horrors of War; Atomic Bomb Aftermath; 1946;

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