Suppressed Footage of Hiroshima After the Bomb to Air on Sundance

[Karmadillo]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0806-01.htm

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Its release on the Sundance Channel is the culmination of years of effort to bring the government footage before a large American audience. It's the most extensive exposure yet of this long-suppressed footage in the United States. Some anti-war activists see the film's appearance on cable television as a crucial step toward an open discussion about the controversial bombings that ended World War II.

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"It was to me the most horrendous, terrifying thing I had ever seen," camera operator Herbert Sussan, who's now deceased, said in a 1983 interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. "I finally convinced myself and some of these people that there was some value for the rest of the people of the world to see what had happened in this first bombing."

Showing their work to the rest of the world was no easy task. The nine hours of film, shot in color, captured horrifying scenes of destruction and human suffering, including a woman with the pattern of her dress burned onto her back and the shadows of vaporized civilians burned into walls.

U.S. government officials deemed it too sensitive to release. They also confiscated black-and-white footage that a Japanese film crew shot before the Americans arrived.

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Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 14 at 3:30 p.m.

Aug. 19 at 2 p.m.

Aug. 24 at noon.

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[HockeyMom]

1. I have seen footage

of those images; the dress, the shadows of disintegrated people. I cannot remember what channel, maybe History Channel. However, it was all in black and white, not color. Color must be very, very gruesome.

[Seedersandleechers]

2. Thanks for the tip

[PowerToThePeople]

3. website..

http://www.originalchildbomb.com/

[Karmadillo]

4. Thank you for posting this

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[Karmadillo]

5. Kick for 4:30 EST showing

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