[rerevisionist]

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A Few Notes on World War 2 Filming and Photographs. Inserted 21 July 2015

Priesthoodagitator = FirstClassSkeptic I've been watching some WWII documentary moves. They all had movie cameras. The Germans, British, Americans, Japanese, Russians, were all taking a hell of a lot of pictures. The one documentary I was watching even had a chapter talking about all of the motion pictures and still pictures being taken in WWII, the most photographed war, up to that time, at least. The photographers would expose film and send it back immediately. It would be developed back at someplace safe, understandably enough.

And I've seen several films of bombs dropping from planes, and falling all the say to the ground, and exploding. And some in color So why no such picture of Little Boy and Fat Man?

rerevisionist Good point. David Irving I think had or saw such film of WW2. I remember that fighter planes, or some of them, had cameras to record their 'kills' or (more often) their misses of planes. I wonder if Kodachrome, which appeared for the public I think after 1945, was a wartime product. Maybe cine film with sprockets was reused by scraping off the emulsion? Lookout Mountain must have had mountains of old film, kept away from the public. There must have been film of weapons experiments: I remember Bertie Russell in his book on Vietnam talked about gory photos of Vietnamese whose head was shot off 'leaving just a stump' - censored from the public, of course. Come to think of it, I remember a British soldier telling me they'd seen a film of the effects of nerve gas, apparently on a condemned murderer who chose to be experimented on. There must be immense stores of such films.

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[FirstClassSkeptic]

They just look like smoke from a fire. Not really all that big. Not nearly as big as five miles high.

[Exorcist]

If anyone wishes to spend £14.99 buying a fake photo of the Nagasaki mushroom cloud you can get one here:

https://www.art.co.uk/products/p15403551-sa-i3743414/japanese-photo-of-the-mushroom-cloud-of-the-atomic-bomb-blast-in-nagasaki-japan-aug-9-1945.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=234850&dimvals=234850&ui=a99ba700e9ba4a61ad162f78f9445dbe

Japanese Photo of the Mushroom Cloud of the Atomic Bomb Blast in Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945

Ive Emailed them asking for details of it's authenticity.

[FirstClassSkeptic]

But the ... His film is a unique record – the only moving images of the Hiroshima bomb.

This shows up on google, but I can't get the link to load, or it's taking a very long time to do anything. It's supposed to be PBS. So I don't know what it's about for sure.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... a6E97eb26w

[FirstClassSkeptic]

OK. I got it to work. There's a bunch of advertising that was loading, and taking up time.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/transcripts/the-world’s-biggest-bomb-program-transcript/862/

It's the transcript of a show. So no pictures.

The video should be around someplace, I would think.

Narrator:
A weapon four thousand (4,000) times bigger than the Hiroshima bomb.

Agnew realized – perhaps better than anyone – what that signified.

As a brilliant young physicist with the wartime Manhattan Project, he worked on the world’s first nuclear weapons.

Agnew flew on the historic mission to Hiroshima – in a B-29 shadowing the delivery aircraft, Enola Gay.

His task was to measure the yield from this first atomic bomb.

DR HAROLD AGNEW:
When the bomb went off we saw the light, then we felt two shockwaves – which surprised us – and then we realised one of them was a reflection from the ground.

And then we dashed over to look out this little porthole and I took the pictures of the Hiroshima cloud.

Narrator:
His film is a unique record – the only moving images of the Hiroshima bomb.

Agnew flew back – to help ready a second bomb.

He’s pictured here – carrying the bomb core itself.

When dropped on Nagasaki shortly after, it effectively ended World War Two.

Together, these bombs had killed more than 150-thousand people.

Many more would perish from their injuries – and the effects of radiation.

As the war ended – the era of the weapon of mass destruction had begun.

Now I see it. Look at the column on the right. 'Watch the full episode".

[FirstClassSkeptic]

Harold Agnew

[FirstClassSkeptic]

Look at the snazzola on that guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Agnew

A member of the Council of Foreign Relations:

https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Agnew_Harold

So, this is the guy they say took that jerky little film, that I have been saying is a still photo, and they are just jerking the movie camera around?

This guy is still alive, apparently. But he's 90.

[Exorcist]

I've just received a reply from art.com, the US parent company of art.co.uk, regarding the fake Nagasaki mushroom photo I linked to earlier....Note they conveniently fail to provide the name of the artist I am supposed to search for....lol


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