[Hiroshima Stills] (silent)
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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."
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.
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;
Film Sponsor:
Creator:
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: The Archives Project
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date: circa 1958
Release Date:
Geographical Location: Japan; Hiroshima, Japan
Genre/Form: nonfiction, documentation
Language: Japanese
Rights:
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
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."
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.
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;
Film Sponsor:
Creator:
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: The Archives Project
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date: circa 1958
Release Date:
Geographical Location: Japan; Hiroshima, Japan
Genre/Form: nonfiction, documentation
Language: Japanese
Rights:
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
Sources
- YouTube channel: Prelinger Archives Official · video ↗ — title, description, video
Record added 2026-08-08 19:03:20