Jump to content

File:Human Shadow Etched Position - 2up.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (1,123 × 1,658 pixels, file size: 198 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Composite photograph showing the position that a person on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, would have been in to create the flash "shadow" when the atomic bomb detonated nearby on August 6, 1945. Created by the United States military as part of their study of the "flash burn and shadow" phenomena in Hiroshima during the spring 1946, with an unnamed Japanese male posing as part of the investigation. See File:Human Shadow Etched Position.jpg and File:Human Shadow Etched Position - shadow.jpg for the separated stills.
Date
Source Stills from US military created film, "FLASH BURN AND SHADOW DETAIL," US National Archives and Records Administration, 342-USAF-11077 (material filmed sometime from March 13, 1946 through April 8, 1946). Sequence it is taken from starts at 10:30 and goes until 12:03.
Author US military
Camera location34° 23′ 30.5″ N, 132° 27′ 07.5″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

Captions

Composite photograph showing the position that a person on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, would have been in to create the flash "shadow" when the atomic bomb detonated nearby on August 6, 1945.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Hiroshima

The Sumitomo Bank

inception

25 March 1946

coordinates of the point of view

34°23'30.502"N, 132°27'7.499"E

media type

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:54, 7 August 2024Thumbnail for version as of 16:54, 7 August 20241,123 × 1,658 (198 KB)NuclearSecretsUploaded a work by US military from Stills from US military created film, "FLASH BURN AND SHADOW DETAIL," US National Archives and Records Administration, [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/64525 342-USAF-11077] (material filmed sometime from March 13, 1946 through April 8, 1946). Sequence it is taken from starts at 10:30 and goes until 12:03. with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Shadow_Etched_Position_-_2up.jpg"