A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

See curatorial note.

U.S. War Department

1946

English

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16mm

00:12:02

B/W

Sound

U.S. War Department

U.S.A./Japan

Internet Archive

The version made accessible here because of its superior quality is from the Internet Archive. The REJ collection print is item no. 447

Produced by the U.S. War Department as part of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine. This film begins with the Trinity Test (the first atomic bomb detonation, in Nevada, New Mexico in July 1945) followed by footage of the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima ("Little Boy," 8/6/45) and Nagasaki ("Fat Man," 8/9/45), the two cities referred to by the title.