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Footage Released by Hiroshima Museum Shows Life in City Pre-Bombing

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<p>The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum released</a> digitally remastered footage on July 6 that shows Hiroshima in April 1935, 10 years before a US nuclear bomb was dropped on the city at the end of the Second World War.</p><p>The video, said to have been donated</a> to the museum in 1963, shows everyday scenes along the Motoyasu River, including the Aioi Bridge, the intended target of the atomic bomb</a>. The bomb actually landed on the nearby Shima Hospital on the left bank of the river.</p><p>The Aioi Bridge can be seen at around the 2.25 mark in the video. The Industrial Promotion Hall (now the Atomic Bomb Dome) can also be seen. Credit: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Genjiro Kawasaki via Storyful</p><br />

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