Streets and home movies

Hideo Inoue filmed Hiroshima with a home movie camera around 1934. His footage preserves street scenes and moments of family life. The museum dates the reels in part from a film advertisement visible in the footage. Look for what a resident chose to record, and compare its scale with the military aerial photographs taken eleven years later.

The Nakajima district was a commercial neighborhood at the meeting of two rivers. The streets that once took residents to shops and homes now lead through Peace Memorial Park. The neighborhood map and films make it possible to start with the city people knew.