Images of tokamak plasma accompanying a major disruption are taken successfully at a tangential port by using a tandem microchannel plate through near-vacuum ultra-violet emission with an exposure time shorter than the time-scale of MHD activities. The horizontal movement of the plasma column as detected by the microchannel plate during the tokamak discharge is found to be consistent with the position signal obtained from a pair of magnetic probes. Shortly after the major disruption, a destruction of the plasma column is observed. The images taken just before the major disruption seem to show the formation of magnetic islands due to the development of MHD activities with main poloidal and toroidal mode numbers of m = 2 and n = 1, respectively.