On august 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima, japan instantly killing more than 100,000 of the roughly the hundred thousand residents. Injuries and radiation would haunt the city for decade. Up next, the spirit of hiroshima. This documentary was made to promote the 50th anniversary of the bombing and highlight the survivors. A young family tries to make sense of the tragedy. music the cards have been winning a lot. See, theyve been winning the past three games. This time, they want 12 to four. Look, we are going to this ceremony today. You mean people are already there and lining up . No, this is a picture of last year ceremony. Its amazing how even after the bomb was dropped, the hiroshima dom did not collapse. Tv bthe night before august 6t, the enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. Around 7 30 the next morning, there was a siren indicating that the planes had retreated from hiroshima. So all the students and teachers started to go to school.
After the bomb fell on 1945, the august 6, people folded paper cranes. Today in hiroshima, men, women and children are still folding paper cranes. Especially children. They are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. What is it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war . These children look like children anywhere, but the park they are playing in is called the peace park, and the monument behind them is the cemetery dedicated to the 70,000 people known to have died from the bomb. Although estimates go as high as 200,000 or more. On a hot summer morning, much like this one, that first bomb flashed this sky and destroyed the city. Now, Children Play in the fountain in front of the peace museum, which bears grim testimony of what the bonded to the first city that experienced it. The children can see the atomic dome at a distance. It was once the industrial exhibition hall. Now, it is the only shell left standing from the atomic blast. All children make their
In the summer of 1945 the war in the pacific was still raging americans were flying Bombing Missions over japan. Children took refuge in caves used as air raid shelters i get to one time of year im on august the 9th he stayed in the bomb shelter longer than usual because wed heard of a new kind of the bomb that had just been dropped on hiroshima to say that. Very few on board the u. S. Bombers were aware of the weapons Destructive Force recruiters folder to reclaim. Because whether or not feeling a martyr would get rid of. The thing contained plutonium rather than the uranium used in the hiroshima bomb develop. It cost billions of dollars. Whats interesting about this is they had an atomic bomb. They had the hiroshima bomb but all this effort was put into the boat tony and bob so do you think all of that effort did not contribute to the use of it and nagasaki thats an interesting question. On these people were children back and they are the ones who are still alive. Our how even today
Chrome film. The library of congress curator tells a story about this collection and the photographers. But we are in the center vault of the prints and photographs division of the library of congress. The library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930s and 40s. It started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market and sent it out to photographers and institutions to give it a try to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free so they were appealing to the newspapers magazines and publishing agencies, book brochures on that kind of thing. I was fill your with the black and white photographs. About 171,000. Black and white photograph. I have been working with those for a few years. There was not much emphasis placed because they were hard to handle. They were unique items. Theres only one of each at the time in the 1970s. It was difficult to make a copy. Very expensive to make a photograph. You do make another
A young family in hiroshima trying to make sense of the tragedy. The cards have been winning a lot. Oh yeah, you are right. See, they have been winning the last three games. This time they won 124. Look, we are going to the ceremony today. You know . You mean people are already there and lining up . No, this is a picture of last years ceremony. It is amazing how even after the bomb was dropped, the hiroshima dome did not collapse. The night before august 6, the enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. Around 7 30 the next morning, there was a siren indicating the planes had retreated from hiroshima. All the students and teachers started to go to school. At 8 05 the teachers gathered all the students together on the playground so we could start the morning meeting. I rang the bell, and the students started to line up in front of the podium. Today, we have this modern steel podium. But then, we only had a wooden one. And i would stand on this and say good morning and say a lit