Tale of Two Cities
About Tale of Two Cities
Army-Navy Screen Magazine number 76 follows the testing of the atomic bomb and its use on Hiroshima, then the damage to military and industrial targets. It notes which buildings took less of the blast, including those built more solidly, and it covers Nagasaki as the second city.
More about Tale of Two Cities
Produced as number 76 of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine. English Wikipedia describes the tone as mostly dispassionate and the order as chronological, from the test to the two cities. No director is named on Wikidata or in the catalog.
Themes
Background
Issued in 1946, after the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as an Army-Navy screen report.
Notes
- The title is the magazine's, not an adaptation of Dickens.
- It is catalogued as both a propaganda film and a documentary.
- Hiroshima is treated first, with notes on where the bomb fell and which structures stood up better.
Scenes
- The magazine traces the test, then the blast damage in Hiroshima, including buildings that stood better than the rest.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Tale of Two Cities (1946).webm)