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

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum released 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.The video, said to have been donated to the museum in 1963, shows everyday scenes along the Motoyasu River, including the Aioi Bridge, the intended target of the atomic bomb. The bomb actually landed on the nearby Shima Hospital on the left bank of the river.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