[Hiroshima Stills] (silent)

Description: Content warning: Contains explicit photographic imagery of people maimed and killed in nuclear attack.

Reel discovered in U.S. government archives apparently produced in Japan, consists of still images captured on film, including drawings and illustrations that are an artistic and humanistic response to nuclear attack, expressing aspects of the lived experience of nuclear bomb attack. Framed by explicit photographs of civilian people including children who were maimed and killed in the bombings.

Can states: ""HIROSHIMA STILLS" COL. + B/W B-WIND MASTER POS."; "ORIG. PIX COL + B/W "HIROSHIMA STILS" B--WIND MASER POS."

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Subjects: 1940s, 1950s, Nuclear weapons, War--Resistance to, Visual art, Health and hygiene, World War II

Tags: war; World War II; nuclear attacks; nuclear weapons; bombings; Hiroshima; nuclear destruction; death; bombing victims; maimed people; scientific photography; biological photography; still images; photographs; visual art; responses to war; humanism; processing; art responds to war; nuclear victims; drawings; illustrations; Japanese graphic art traditions; sequential art; anime;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1958

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Geographical Location: Japan; Hiroshima, Japan

Genre/Form: nonfiction, documentation

Language: Japanese

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: master positive

Color: color, b&w

Color Process: Eastman ECO

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 546