The Effect of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[jesty at uchicago.edu]

Hello All,

I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and also work there as 
outreach coordinator for the Center for East Asian Studies 
(http://ceas.uchicago.edu). We are in the process of helping to support a 
hibakusha/nuclear issues film series for the spring quarter and I thought it 
would be significant if we could screen a documentary that Mark Nornes has 
written a lot about: _The Effect of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki_.

This is still in a very early stage of planning, but a few things would affect 
the decision making process even at this stage. Does anyone know of a film 
copy from the one in the National Archives that would be rentable? If there 
isn't a copy floating around, what do people think about the worthiness of 
having a copy made? I haven't gotten an estimate yet, but I imagine this would 
be very expensive - would it be worth a few universities sharing the cost? I 
haven't seen the film, so maybe people who have could weigh in - is it 
something that would be in demand in the coming year, the 50th anniversary of 
the bomb?

Looking forward to input
Justin Jesty