Jul 07 (the-japan-news.com) - he Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum released online Wednesday digitally processed 16 millimeter film footage showing the central area of Hiroshima about 10 years before its devastation by the U.S. atomic bombing.
The original film is the only footage owned by the museum depicting the area before World War II.
The footage is "valuable data that clearly shows how Hiroshima looked before being atomic-bombed," said a staff member at the museum.
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and another on the city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, three days later, in the closing days of the war.
The three-minute black-and-white video was originally shot by late Genjiro Kawasaki, a resident of Hiroshima, for his own amusement.
Source: Kyodo
