{"id":34363,"date":"2020-03-10T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/?p=34363"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:50:54","slug":"new-paper-city-doc-memorializes-1945-tokyo-firebombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10\/new-paper-city-doc-memorializes-1945-tokyo-firebombing\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Paper City&#8221; Doc Memorializes 1945 Tokyo Firebombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Seventy five years ago today, March 10, 1945, just after midnight, the US obliterated a quarter of Tokyo and killed 100,000 in a devastating firebombing raid against the Japanese. A new documentary from Australian filmmaker Adrian Francis, &#8220;Paper City&#8221; captures the memories and stories of three survivors before they&#8217;re gone forever.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"34364\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10\/new-paper-city-doc-memorializes-1945-tokyo-firebombing\/adrian\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"adrian\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-1024x683.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian.jpeg?fit=662%2C442\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-561x374.jpeg 561w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-1122x748.jpeg 1122w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-364x243.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-728x485.jpeg 728w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-608x405.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-758x505.jpeg 758w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-1152x768.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-72x48.jpeg 72w, https:\/\/blog.peterfever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/adrian-144x96.jpeg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption><em>&#8220;Paper City&#8221; director Adrian Francis<\/em>, <em>about the documentary&#8217;s origins<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Growing up  in  Australia,  I  learned  very  little  about  how ordinary Japanese experienced the war. This changed when I  saw  Errol  Morris&#8217;  documentary The  Fog  of  War\u2014and first  learned  of  the  firebombing  of  Tokyo.  The  facts  were devastating:   100,000   people,   overwhelmingly   civilians, killed in one night\u2014the most destructive air raid in history. And yet there seems to be a kind of public amnesia around this tragedy. I began this project because I wanted to know why.In  this  film,  we tell  the  story  through  the  eyes  of  the people on the ground that night. <\/p><cite>&#8211;Director Adrian Francis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> Just  after  midnight  on  March  10,  1945,  the  U.S.  carried  out  a  massive  incendiary  air  attack  on  eastern  Tokyo, unleashing a firestorm that devastated this densely urban area of wooden and paper houses. By sunrise, more than 100,000  people  had  been  killed,  a  million  people  made homeless,  and  a  quarter  of  the  city  wiped  off  the  map. Devastation.But while the memory of this tragedy is forever seared in the minds of the survivors, for many people in Japan and abroad, the firebombing is ancient history\u2014forgotten. Paper City is the story of three survivors desperate to leave behind a record of this forgotten tragedy\u2014before the last of them passes away. <strong> <\/strong><br \/><strong><em>(Here you can watch a trailer of this important film and historical document.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n\t       <div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PAPER CITY Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/394333713?h=d392b02961&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>To help this film achieve its completion and release, you can take part in its crowdfunding effort.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Crowdfunding<\/strong><br \/>From initial research to now, Paper City, has taken five years. We have assembled more than enough footage to tell this story. Now need to raise the funds to complete editing and post-production. We are pushing to complete the film and bring it to the world in 2020\u201475 years after the firebombing, and with the world&#8217;s eyes on Tokyo for the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowdfunding page<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/camp-fire.jp\/en\/projects\/231378\">https:\/\/camp-fire.jp\/en\/projects\/231378<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Campaign period<\/strong>: March 1st to 30th, 2020 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Target:$4 million yen<\/strong> (Approx. USD 40, 000\/ AUD 60, 000) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Follow the project on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook:<\/em> <strong>@papercitytokyo <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy five years ago today, March 10, 1945, just after midnight, the US obliterated a quarter of Tokyo and killed 100,000 in a devastating firebombing raid against the Japanese. 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