(10 Mar 2025)
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Tokyo- 25 February 2025
1. Pull focus from map showing one the targets of the 10 March raid by US B-29s on Tokyo
2. Tokyo raid survivor, Shizuyo Takeuchi, talking to students about her experience of raid UPSOUND Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94-year-old Tokyo raid survivor (Japanese): "It means (my mother and I) walked all the way to the edge where the city was reduced to ashes. I saw countless burnt bodies on the way – the smell of skin burning was horrible."
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ARCHIVE: Over Tokyo – 10 March 1945
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3. Black and white STILL showing light sections and smoke several hours after a raid by more than 300 Marianas-based B-29s on Tokyo
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Tokyo – 25 February 2025
4. Wide of students listening to Takeuchi’s testimony
5. Close of Takeuchi speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shizuyo Takeuchi, 94-year-old Tokyo raid survivor:
"I first couldn’t make out what it was when I saw a charred body. Looking at it closely, I realised it was a mother facing down. Next to her, there was a burnt baby, which looked like a lump of coal. When I saw that, I was terribly shocked."
7. Student taking notes reading (Japanese): "Tokyo Air Raid. A hundred thousand people died."
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Tokyo – 18 February 2025
8. Zoom out of St. Luke’s International Hospital where many of Tokyo raid survivors were treated, UPSOUND bell tolling
9. Close of former nurse student at St. Luke’s International Hospital, Reiko Muto, speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Reiko Muto, 97-year-old former nurse student at St. Luke’s International Hospital:
"They were carried in one after another, so those who were in already were shifted to the back to make space. It was like, how can I describe this… the patients were lined up like a number of tuna fish being laid out at a market. All suffering from burns, calling for water and screaming from the pain. That screaming has never left me since."
11. Close of Muto’s hands
12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Reiko Muto, 97-year-old former nurse student:
"The day after the raid, I was assigned on hospital ward duty. It broke my heart when I saw a student who lost his arm, crying with a blanket pulled over his head. It still brings tears to my eyes. That sort of scene was seen every day."
13. Wide of Muto explaining some evacuation drills conducted at hospital
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Tokyo – 4 February 2025
14. Pull focus of book cover reading (in Japanese) "Tokyo Raid – records of 10 March 1945"
15. Author of book, Katsumoto Saotome’s daughter and video archivist, Ai Saotome, opening book to mark pages
16. Ai’s husband and photographer, Shinji Teruya, placing glass on top of manuscript
17. Teruya operating camera
18. Close of monitor, showing manuscript recorded in digital form
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Tokyo – 25 February 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Ai Saotome, daughter of writer who wrote records of U.S. firebombing of Tokyo and video archivist:
"I am digitalising it as it is as much as possible, to preserve its value as a document."
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Tokyo – 4 February 2025
20. Various of monitor, displaying manuscript being digitised
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Tokyo – 25 February 2025
21. Close of Ai Saotome
22. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Ai Saotome, daughter of writer who wrote records of U.S. firebombing of Tokyo and video archivist:
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Tokyo – 4 February 2025
23. Saotome and Teruya looking a digitized pages of book
STORYLINE:
More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital.
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