Hiroshima and Nagasaki: In Memory of the Victims

A man talking, standing near the famed atomic bomb domed building. He has talked to survivors of the bombings.

A model of the city inside the Atomic Bomb Museum.

The remains of very few buildings stand near where the bomb detonated.

Film of the city after the bombing. (Note: there is no narration at all after the man talked early in the film.)

A guy doing some kind of unusual painting near the domed building. Again, no narration. There is, though, some incredibly, (very incredibly) annoying sounds going on which are trying to pass themselves off as music.

The artwork begins to show the outlines of some people.

Then, for some reason which I cannot fathom, the artist wipes out the figures.

The guy continues to put things on the canvas then wipe them off, and the other guy keeps playing the annoying music (I actually turned the sound way, way down at this point.)

Another stage of the painting (or whatever it is.)

Finally the film interviews another person, an American. He says there's not much attention given to the atomic bombs by people in the U.S.

Another person is interviewed. She says the people still making atomic bombs are not doing the right thing.

Back to the guy from before. He had talked to an old woman in Kyoto who had survived the bombing. She was twenty at the time and was five months pregnant.

Back to the girl, talking about peace. She says it has to be started in the family, and talked about in the schools.

Then the film moves on to other pieces of art (and more annoying would-be music.)

Another person is interviewed. She talks about the concept that, when we forget something in history, we tend to repeat it.

She talks about how the U.S. economy lives on wars. She says that, instead of spending money on war, we should be spending money on peaceful purposes.

There was no actual title image on this film, and it sort of ends abruptly.

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