JAPANESE FILM OF ATOM BOMB DAMAGE ON "BLAST" Part 1

Description

Summary: Burned and wrecked walls of penitentiary. Japanese physicists measuring width of fissure in cement wall in penitentiary. Bent and twisted steel walls of Mitsubishi Steel Plant. Scientists measuring area where concrete wall jumped out of place. This is explained in an animated chart. HS, wreckage in cemetery. MS, scientist working among tombstones in Catholic cemetery which were blown over by blast. Animated charts showing extent to which tombstone moved out of place. HS, hills and devastated area. Pan, wrecked wooden buildings, damaged high roofs. HS, wooden houses in valley which escaped damage. Still photographs of civilians holding windows with torn paper panels. Pan of hills surrounding Nagasaki. AVs of flattened area. Avs, seemingly unaffected area.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities