The September 11 Attacks - Keith Lopez' footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « WPIX Dub3 01.avi » to « WPIX Dub3 22.avi » and « WPIX Dub3 45.avi » to « WPIX Dub3 74.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Keith Lopez (WPIX-TV);
Locations: FDR Drive at the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, NY;
Time: approx 09h00 a.m. - 10h35 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001;
Reporter: Pauline Liu (WPIX-TV);
»» 00:12 »» FDR Drive, approaching Manhattan Bridge from the north, traffic stop;
»» 01:37 »» FDR Drive, approaching Brooklyn Bridge;
»» 02:00 »» South Tower (WTC 2) got hit @ 09:03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 02:32 »» FDR Drive at Brooklyn Bridge, traffic stop;
»» 28:33 »» South Tower (WTC 2) collapse @ 09:59 a.m. EDT;
»» 45:39 »» North Tower (WTC 1) collapse @ 10:28 a.m. EDT;
A WPIX-TV (WB11) news crew with Reporter Pauline Liu and Photojournalist Keith Lopez was on its way to the scene via the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly called FDR Drive, and got stuck at the Brooklyn Bridge. Numerous interviews with eyewitnesses /survivors were conducted.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also preserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I used may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restored the audio whilst keeping occasional microphone problems. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Michael Barbagallo's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « WPIX Dub2 01.avi » to « WPIX Dub2 23.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added portions of an interview with the videographer on the 18th anniversary of the September 11 Attacks, courtesy of KHOU-TV, channel 11, Houston, TX.
Videographer: Michael Barbagallo (WPIX-TV);
Locations: Broadway, Church Street, Liberty Street, Manhattan, NY;
Time: approx 08h50 a.m. - 09h45 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001;
Interviewer: Russ Lewis (KHOU-TV) on September 11, 2019;
00:16 »» Michael Barbagallo's raw footage;
»» 00:16 »» Broadway & Wall Street;
»» 00:20 »» Zuccotti Park (formerly Liberty Plaza Park);
»» 01:39 »» Church Street between Cortlandt Street & Dey Street;
»» 02:12 »» Church Street & Fulton Street / in front of the Millenium Hotel,
»» 03:35 »» South Tower (WTC 2) got hit @ 09:03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 06:33 »» Church Street & Dey Street;
»» 08:06 »» Liberty Street between Church Street and Greenwich Street;
»» 08:41 »» Videographer Evan Fairbanks at Liberty Street & Greenwich Street;
»» 08:50 »» Deutsche Bank Building at 130 Liberty Street;
»» 10:25 »» Broadway & Cedar Street;
»» 11:09 »» Wall Street between William Street and Hanover Street (interviews);
14:08 »» KHOU-TV Russ Lewis interview with Michael Barbagallo
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio whilst keeping the obvious microphone problems. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Keith Lane's footage (editor's cut)
Graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.
This video contains the files « WNYW Dub #2 01.avi » to « WNYW Dub #1 200.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The first portion is raw footage shot by Keith Lane. The second portion is a short version of the TV documentary 'Capturing 9/11: Stories from Behind the Lens'. Director: Ray Parisi. Starring: David Corporon, Keith Lane, and Jack Taliercio. Released on September 11, 2002.
Videographer: Keith Lane, photojournalist for WNYW (FOX 5 New York)
Locations: primarily between Church Street and Park Row, Manhattan, NY
Time: approx 09h15 a.m. - approx 10h45 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
»» 00:12 »» Robert F. Wagner sr. Place & South Street, just north of Brooklyn Bridge;
»» 01:44 »» Broadway & Fulton Street;
»» 02:31 »» Broadway & Dey Street;
»» 03:46 »» Walking on Broadway back towards and then into Fulton Street;
»» 04:49 »» Church Street between Fulton and Dey Street, triage area at the Millenium Hotel;
»» 06:27 »» Eyewitness accounts at Church & Dey Street;
»» 06:43 »» FOX5's Keith Lane, WB11's Kirstin Cole, and eyewitnesses ordered by Police to leave;
»» 14:27 »» Walking back to Fulton Street & Broadway;
»» 17:44 »» North Tower collapses @ 09:59 a.m. EDT, seen from Fulton Street & Broadway;
»» 18:32 »» Broadway & Vesey Street;
»» 19:01 »» Park Row;
»» 20:34 »» South Tower collapses @ 10:28 a.m. EDT, seen from Park Row & Spruce Street;
»» 21:09 »» Subway entrance City Hall / Brooklyn Bridge at Park Row & Frankfort Street;
»» 22:35 »» Walking back on Park Row;
»» 23:39 »» 'Capturing 9/11: Stories from Behind the Lens', documentary (short version).
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio. Though working with uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - David Corporon's & Jack Taliercio's footage (editor's cut)
Graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.
This video contains the files « WNYW Dub #1 01.avi » to « WNYW Dub #1 111.avi », « WNYW #2 186.avi », and « 498-WTCI-433-I.mp4 » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). We see primarily raw footage captured by a WNYW-TV news crew (FOX 5 New York / channel 5). I added one recorded clip of the FOX 5 News live broadcast.
Videographers: David Corperon and Jack Taliercio;
Locations: Directly at the World Trade Center, Fulton Street, Broadway, Park Row in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York;
Time: approx 09h05 a.m. - approx 01h30 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
00:12 »» West Street & Warren Street @ about 09:05 a.m. EDT;
»»» 00:37 »»» Dave Corporon's footage;
00:40 »» West Street & Vesey Street @ 09:10 a.m. EDT;
01:24 »» Vesey Street & West Broadway with pedestrian bridge to WTC 7;
01:42 »» Vesey Street between West Broadway and Church Street;
02:09 »» Church Street between Vesey Street and Fulton Street at WTC 5;
03:42 »» Church Street & Fulton Street at the Millenium Hotel;
05:00 »» Mr. Corporon & Mr. Sheehan ordered by Police to leave @ 09:19:08 a.m. EDT;
05:25 »» Broadway & Fulton Street @ 09:59:07 a.m. EDT;
05:30 »» FOX5's Keith Lane lying down behind emergency vehicle, filming;
05:49 »» FOX5's Jack Taliercio comes running with his camera, filming backward;
08:25 »» Broadway between Fulton Street and Vesey Street @ 10:02:07 a.m. EDT;
09:23 »» Broadway & Vesey Street @ 10:06:14 a.m. EDT;
09:51 »» FOX5's Keith Lane at work at Broadway & Vesey Street;
10:01 »» Park Row looking back to Broadway & Vesey Street;
10:51 »» Pace Plaza / Park Row, entrance of Pace University @ 10:28 a.m. EDT;
11:06 »» Fulton Street & Nassau Street with Jack Taliercio, WTC 5 is on fire;
12:23 »» Fulton Street & William Street;
13:18 »» Pace University at Pace Plaza @ about ~01:15 p.m. EDT, setup of an emergency medical center;
»»» 15:04 »»» FOX5 live broadcast with Dave Corporon on the phone @ 01:24:25 p.m. EDT;
»»» 20:43 »»» Jack Taliercio's footage;
20:45 »» Church Street & Dey Street @ about ~ 09:30 a.m. EDT;
21:15 »» Austin J. Tobin Plaza as seen from WTC 4;
22:13 »» Alley between WTC 4 & WTC 2, bridge across Liberty Street to the Deutsche Bank Building (Bankers Trust Plaza);
22:17 »» Liberty Street looking toward Church Street, with the FDNY Firehouse, Engine Company 10 and Ladder Company 10 at the corner of Greenwich Street;
22:23 »» Parking lot between Liberty Street, West Street and Cedar Street, with the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church prior to its destruction;
23:00 »» Austin J. Tobin Plaza as seen from WTC 4;
24:40 »» Ejection of smoke, dust and debris from the 77th floor of WTC 2 (window 77-355) @ 09:37:08 a.m. EDT;
25:48 »» Liberty Street near the WTC 4 entrance;
26:36 »» Church Street & Liberty Street;
26:51 »» Church Street & Fulton Street at triage area Millenium Hotel;
29:08 »» FOX5's David Corporon leaving his position at Broadway & Fulton Street @ 09:59 a.m. EDT;
33:10 »» Broadway between Fulton Street and Vesey Street;
34:30 »» Broadway & Vesey Street / Ann Street;
34:43 »» Park Row with FOX5's Keith Lane at work;
35:09 »» Inside Pace University at Pace Plaza with Dave Corporon;
35:33 »» Pace Plaza / Park Row, entrance of Pace University;
36:37 »» View into Nassau Street from Pace Plaza in front of Pace University;
36:59 »» Fulton Street & Nassau Street with Dave Corporon, WTC 5 on fire;
38:29 »» John Street between Nassau Street and Broadway;
38:42 »» Broadway & Fulton Street;
»»» 40:44 »»» FOX5's Mike Sheehan interviews Jack Taliercio and Dave Corporon at Fulton Street & William Street shortly after 12 p.m. EDT, and is then resuming his teamwork with Mr. Corporon, and making some live appearances on FOX 5 News into the evening.
The FOX 5 news crew was originally composed of reporter Mike Sheehan with photojournalist David Corporon at his side, whilst Keith Lane's task was to capture additional footage. Fellow photojournalist Jack Taliercio eventually joined the team as events unfolded. Reporter Mike Sheehan got separated from his colleagues and temporarily 'lost' in the chaos when the South Tower collapsed, whilst Dave Corporon was standing his ground until the very last moment.
NIST mixed the footage of three fellow FOX 5 cameramen in a big pool of clips, and it is often, but not always, impossible to see at first sight which photojournalist actually captured which footage. Based on my own analysis and on my work experience in that industry, my video differs significantly from other videos which use this footage.
Trivia: There is more to the story. Against popular belief, Jack Taliercio was not originally part of the team around Mike Sheehan. His assignment on that day initially was not news gathering. He was apparently assigned to a kind of scouting mission with another producer. The name of that person, and the exact purpose of that mission, have not been disclosed and remain a secrecy, for obvious reasons.
The most plausible explanation in my opinion is that famous film and television producer Dick Wolf, best known for the successful 'Law & Order' franchise and other works featuring the law enforcement community, was scouting Manhattan for a new project which focused on terrorism. It has been established that Wolf's team indeed engaged in preparations for his new project in New York coincidentally on that day. But when terrorism struck in reality, the film project was ultimately canceled.
I conclude this because Jack Taliercio was accompanied during his spectacular visit of the Plaza between the twin towers by a producer who was not part of the FOX 5 News team, who had not previously collaborated with Mr. Taliercio, and who was apparently not interested in news gathering, but in something else.
In addition, numerous journalists from all media outlets have reported how they were either pushed back by Police officers, or politely ordered to leave the area. Even David Corporon, Keith Lane and Mike Sheehan were denied access to the immediate World Trade Center area, and ordered to leave. This is remarkable because Mike Sheehan had been a seasoned NYPD detective for 25 years before joining WNYW for a new career as a reporter, and he was very well known inside the New York law enforcement community.
The only possibility to access the World Trade Center as a journalist, and even to pass the security desk in Building 4 just minutes from the first collapse, was to either be accompanied by a Police officer, as for instance the cops themselves wanted a copy of Evan Fairbanks' footage, or to have explicit approval from highest authorities. Dick Wolf could have had such exceptional approval. I cannot exclude that any other authority wanted Jack Taliercio to shoot his spectacular footage of the devastation between the twin towers, and the view from the bridge across Liberty Street. When the tower fell, he ran for his Life, alone, and eventually joined his colleagues.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and restored the audio when necessary. Though working with uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
I also created an authentic real-time reconstruction of the minutes during which Dave Corporon was in the dark after the collapse of the South Tower, using video fragments provided by NIST. I decided that it might be valuable for viewers to get an accurate real-time feeling of how long it actually took before activities resumed. The reconstruction is timely synchronized with Kai Simonsen's footage from news helicopter Chopper 5, thanks to Dave Corporon's CB radio. The black-out period in Jack Taliercio's footage has been provided by NIST as a whole. It was impossible to verify it's authenticity, but it is likely that it is.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Kai Simonsen's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « WNYW Dub5 01.avi » to « WNYW Dub5 19.avi » as well as « WTCI-329-I-#3.mp4 » and « WTCI-329-I-#11.mp4 », which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which WNYW-TV had donated directly to the Internet Archives.
Unedited aerial footage from news helicopter Chopper 5 / High 5, produced by a WNYW-TV (FOX5 NY) news crew. To provide an accurate context, I embedded the raw footage into the live coverage of FOX5 New York. NIST has not released all raw footage coming from Chopper 5. However, the majority of the missing footage is included in the live broadcast. The second portion of FOX5's live coverage is raw material in itself, without banners, identifiers, etc. which usually run on the TV screen, and contains some material from FOX News, CBS2 NY, and ABC7 NY.
Videographer & Helicopter Reporter: Jim Smith;
Pilot: Mike (family name undisclosed);
Anchors WNYW-TV studio: Lyn Brown, Rosanna Scotto, Jim Ryan & Dave Price; guests: Joseph Jaffe (Security Strategist), Joe Clines (FOX News Broadcast Producer);
WNYW-TV News room: John Roland;
On-air-reporters: Dick Oliver, Barbara Nevins Taylor, Rick Leventhal (FOX News);
Helicopter: Eurocopter AS 350BA A-star, Tail number (Registration) N5NY;
Locations: Jersey City and over the New Jersey Turnpike, New Jersey;
Time aerial raw footage: 09h04:01 a.m. - 10h14:39 a.m. EDT;
Time covered by this video: 08h48:08 a.m. - 10h52:34 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
»» 00:00:20 »» WNYW (Good Day New York) @ 08h48:08 a.m. EDT, actually interrupting a commercial and breaking the news as the very first station to report;
»» 00:15:12 »» South Tower (2 WTC) hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT***;
»» 00:16:13 »» Kai Simonsen's raw footage starts @ 09h04:01 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:11:12 »» South Tower (2 WTC) collapse missed by Kai Simonsen;
»» 01:26:51 »» Kai Simonsen's raw footage ends @ 10h14:39 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:40:34 »» North Tower (1 WTC) collapse initiated @ 10h28:22 a.m. EDT;
»» 02:03:14 »» Last aerial pictures from Chopper 5 @ 10h51:02 a.m. EDT;
*** Surprisingly (or not), time uncertainty is one major factor in the investigation of the September 11 Attacks, and this uncertainty creates confusion. For instance, the exact impact time of the South Tower is also disputed:
NTSC Flight Path Study UAL175 (2002), page 2: 09h02:40
NIST Final Report WTC 1&2 (2005), page 27: 09h02:59
National Commission Report (2004), page 8: 09h03:11
and various other sources give a time in between. Even TV clocks, which are supposed to be accurate, vary significantly up to eight seconds.
But there is only one official time in the United States, and it is provided by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Master Clock. Back in 2001, it was broadcast thru the Digital Time Code of NIST's WWV /WWVB radio station.
Making my own analysis, I established that the WNYW-TV clock was off by about +0.3 sec on that day, that means behind the official time-signal. Consequently, the aircraft made its first contact with the building structure @ 02h02:59, and the aircraft explodes / fireball inside @ 09h03:00.
https://time.gov/
The footage is highly controversial. I will not comment on the content and leave it to viewers like you, what they see, and hear. However, I distance myself from lunatic theories which allege that video journalist Kai Simonsen himself had been part of a conspiracy, and allegedly manipulated the footage.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and interruptions of the video/audio stream. The footage of the FOX5 live broadcast had encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Tom Kaminski's footage & ++ (editor's cut)
This video is a montage of material from various sources, directly from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through NIST FOIA #09-42 request and which is not available on NIST's cloud server, WCBS Newsradio 880, and the Federal Aviation Administration, made available via the National Archives and Records Administration.
The video contains primarily aerial footage from news helicopter N8BQ a.k.a. Chopper 880 and a recording of WCBS Newsradio 880 New York (WCBS-AM radio), with traffic reporter Tom Kaminski reporting from this helicopter. For illustrative purposes during the WCBS radio broadcast, a small segment of video footage by Jim Smith (CBS2 / WCBS-TV) is also included.
The video starts, however, with real-time audio recording from LaGuardia Air Traffic Control Tower, illustrated with real-time radar-data animation, and footage by WNYW-TV (FOX5 New York) videographer David Stollak.
Chopper 880 helicopter crew: Videographer & Reporter Tom Kaminski, Pilot Arthur Anderson;
WCBS Newsradio 880 studio: Pat Carrol & Jeff Caplan;
WCBS-TV: Voices of Lisa Cooley Hill, Michael Palmer & Jim Smith
Helicopter: Bell 206-L4, S/N 51108, Tail number (Registration) N8BQ;
Location: Over the Hudson River between the George Washington Bridge and Hoboken, New Jersey;
WNYW-TV news crew: Videographer David Stollak & Reporter Dick Oliver;
Location: Park Row, south of City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York;
Real Time covered by this video: 08h45:00 a.m. - 09h17:32 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Time uncertainty under one second.
»» 00:00:17 »» FAA radar animation starts @ 08h45:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:00:32 »» Pilot Arthur Anderson (N8BQ) calls LaGuardia ATC Tower Class B Airspace @ 08h45:15 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:01:40 »» David Stollak's footage starts @ 08h46:23 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:01:48 »» North Tower (1 WTC) got hit @ 08h46:31 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:01:52 »» Dick Oliver asks: "What the hell was that?" @ 08h46:35 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:02:00 »» Pilot Arthur Anderson (N8BQ) calls LaGuardia Tower Class B Airspace again @ 08h46:43 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:02:28 »» FAA radar animation resumes @ 08h47:11 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:03:08 »» LaGuardia ATC Tower calls Newark ATC Tower @ 08h47:51 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:03:29 »» WCBS Newsradio 880 starts with Pat Carroll's intro for Tom Kaminski @ 08h48:12 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:05:52 »» Aerial footage from Chopper 880 (N8BQ) starts @ 08h50:35 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:18:17 »» South Tower (2 WTC) got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:24:30 »» Aerial footage Chopper 880 ends @ 09h09:13 a.m. EDT, followed by a short segment of Jim Smith's aerial footage as it was broadcast on CBS2 (WCBS-TV).
On a side note: The recorded conversation via aeronautical radio is between helicopter N8BQ (Arthur Anderson piloting Chopper 880) and the Class B Airspace work position in the LaGuardia Air Traffic Control Tower. This work position only handles traffic under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in the control zone, like news helicopter or sightseeing aircraft. The Controller separates this traffic from the landing and departing traffic at the airport itself, which is handled by a separate work position on a different radio frequency.
The real-time radar animation is updated on average every 4.6 seconds, since the approach radar antenna (source: ASR-9 Newark) makes 13 rotations per minute, resulting in 13 target reports per minute.
Nice to know: Against widespread (mis)belief, Tom Kaminski was not the first reporter to break the news, neither was WCBS Newsradio 880. The race between WCBS Newsradio 880 and FOX5 New York (WNYW-TV) was won by FOX5, with Dick Oliver coming on the air, even with live pictures shot by David Stollak, four seconds earlier than Tom Kaminski.
Nice to know also: In the ere of outsourcing, it became unusual for radio and TV stations to have their own news helicopter. Back in 2001, Metro/Shadow Traffic was the major player in the U.S. to produce actually tailor-made reports for most stations. Chopper 880 also belonged to Metro/Shadow Traffic. It is also quite common that one reporter produces for more than only one station. Tom Kaminski's live pictures are publicly known as WABC-TV pictures, or ABC7 Eyewitness News New York.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and interruptions of the video/audio stream. The footage in this video has, unfortunately, encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Jim Smith's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « WCBS Dub4 06.avi » to « WCBS Dub4 26.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage from the file « 102-WTCI-93-S », which is available on NIST's cloud server.
Aerial footage from news helicopter Chopper 2, produced by a WCBS-TV (CBS2) news crew. This video shows mostly raw footage (unedited), which I embedded into the live coverage of CBS2 to provide an accurate context.
The WCBS-TV Chopper 2 helicopter crew: Videographer & Reporter Jim Smith, Pilot Ed Baker;
Anchors WCBS-TV studio: Lisa Cooley Hill & Michael Palmer;
WCBS-TV News room: Marcia Kramer & Cindy Hsu;
Helicopter: Bell 206-L4, S/N 52045, Tail number (Registration) N27M;
Locations: Over the Upper New York Bay, the north shore of Staten Island, New York, Kill Van Kull tidal straight, and Bayonne, New Jersey;
Time Raw footage: 09h09:27 a.m. - 10h41:20 a.m. EDT;
Time covered by this video: 08h50:13 a.m. - 10h58:13 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
»» 00:00:12 »» CBS2 Breaking News @ 08h50:13 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:12:59 »» South Tower (2 WTC) hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:19:26 »» Jim Smith's raw footage starts @ 09h09:27 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:08:57 »» South Tower (2 WTC) collapse initiated @ 09h58:58 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:21:39 »» 9.5 seconds of the audio track are missing on the NIST-file 'WCBS Dub4 20.avi' @ 10h11:39 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:38:21 »» North Tower (1 WTC) collapse initiated @ 10h28:22 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:51:19 »» Jim Smith's raw footage ends @ 10h41:20 a.m. EDT;
»» 02:02:27 »» Mark LaGanga's unedited footage from Seven World Trade Center between the collapses of the twin towers aired on CBS2 @ 10h52:28 a.m. EDT;
Shortly after this video ends, Chopper 2 returned to Linden Municipal Airport for landing. A few more images shot by Jim Smith were broadcast, mostly in tiny inset windows, with deteriorating quality. Chopper 2 was not permitted to take off again on that day.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and interruptions of the video/audio stream. The footage of the CBS live broadcast was edited, and has encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 / 17 U.S. Code § 512 (f) (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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FDR animation Amercian Airlines flight 77
Animation of American Airlines flight 77 (Dulles - Pentagon) with subtitles of pilot‐controller communication. Based on the Flight Data Recorder (FDR).
Produced in 2004 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission). Commission staff attended a playback in the NTSB's Vehicle Recorders Division laboratory on April 22, 2004. That presentation was not very convincing. I nevertheless believe that the document should not be deleted from the public memory.
Disclaimer : This video is for general education and entertainment purposes only. The animation contains various glitches and inaccuracies. Viewers should not draw conclusions regarding the outcome of the event. Recipients, who requested this animation via FOIA request, have been advised of its nature as a "working copy", not for official purposes.
On a personal note : I am convinced that the NTSB experts are highly skilled aviation professionals who exactly knew what they were doing. Also, a FDR does not record any audio. I decided not to dub the video with ATC audio, even if it made the watching experience more interesting, since that would mean tampering with evidence.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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FDR animation United Airlines flight 93
Animation of United Airlines flight 93 (Newark - Shanksville) with Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) subtitles. Based on the Flight Data Recorder (FDR).
Produced in 2004 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission). Commission staff attended a playback in the NTSB's Vehicle Recorders Division laboratory on April 22, 2004. That presentation was not very convincing. I nevertheless believe that the document should not be deleted from the public memory.
Disclaimer : This video is for general education and entertainment purposes only. The animation contains various inaccuracies. Viewers should not draw conclusions regarding the outcome of the event. Recipients, who requested this animation via FOIA request, have been advised of its nature as a "working copy", not for official purposes.
On a personal note : I am convinced that the NTSB experts are highly skilled aviation professionals who exactly knew what they were doing. Also, a FDR does not record any audio. I decided not to dub the video with ATC audio, even if it made the watching experience more interesting, since that would mean tampering with evidence.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Chet Wilson's footage with Melinda Murphy (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « WPIX Dub4 01.avi » to « WPIX Dub4 17.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Aerial footage from news helicopter Air 11, produced by a WPIX-TV (WB11) news crew, covering a total of almost 6 ½ hours. Air 11 was the only news helicopter that was allowed to stay airborne into the afternoon. The majority of the video is raw footage, other clips are from the live coverage and may include short clips shot by other videographers. Please be advised that both the video and the audio streams are temporarily broken, but continue, most frequently during the last hour. This was part of the problems on that day, and is reflected in the video. Also, to protect privacy, I redacted three telephone numbers that were audible.
The WPIX-TV Air 11 helicopter crew :
Videographer: Chet Wilson;
Reporter: Melinda Murphy;
Pilot: Ray Rivera;
Camera: Sony BVP-570 with a Canon 1000mm lens in a UltraMedia III camera ball from Flir Systems;
Helicopter: Bell 206-L3, S/N 51430, Tail number (Registration) N311WB;
Locations: Departure from Heliport West 30th Street (near Pier 66), Manhattan, NY, thereafter primarily over the New Jersey Turnpike, New Jersey, NJ;
Time: 09h08:39 a.m. - 03h33:59 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
00:00:16 »» Flight # 1 - raw footage, ~09h08:39 - ~10h42:19 p.m. EDT;
»» 00:00:16 »» Air 11 engine start-up (camera not yet rolling) @ ~09h08:39 a.m.;
»» 00:00:58 »» Air 11 airborne West 30th Street Heliport, Manhattan @ ~09h09:21 a.m.;
»» 00:06:30 »» Melinda Murphy live on WPIX @ 09h14:53 a.m. EDT;
»» 00:50:35 »» South Tower (2 WTC) collapse @ 09h58:58 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:19:59 »» North Tower (1 WTC) collapse @ 10h28:22 a.m. EDT;
Fuel stop at Linden Airport, Linden, NJ
01:34:02 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~11h30:26 - ~11h30:33 a.m. EDT;
01:34:14 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~11h35:54 - ~11h38:01 a.m. EDT;
01:36:26 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~11h33:59 - ~11h34:54 a.m. EDT;
01:36:55 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~11h40:48 - ~11h45:16 a.m. EDT;
01:41:29 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~12h03:59 - ~12h04:54 p.m. EDT;
01:42:29 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~12h09:37 - ~12h11:21 p.m. EDT;
01:44:18 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~12h19:52 - ~12h27:43 p.m. EDT;
01:52:15 »» Flight # 2 - WPIX live broadcast, ~12h30:09 - ~12h38:16 p.m. EDT;
Fuel stop at Linden Airport, Linden, NJ
02:00:27 »» Flight # 3 - WPIX live broadcast, ~02h04:53 - ~02h09:36 p.m. EDT;
02:05:15 »» Flight # 3 - WPIX live broadcast, ~02h16:46 - ~02h20:54 p.m. EDT;
02:09:29 »» Flight # 3 - raw footage, ~02h24:04 - ~03h33:59 p.m. EDT;
»» 02:43:31 »» Melinda Murphy live on WPIX @ 02h58:06 p.m. EDT with live stream suddenly breaking whilst she was on air;
»» 03:10:15 »» Melinda Murphy live on WPIX @ 03h24:50 p.m. EDT;
»» 03:18:50 »» Air 11 overflying Newark International Airport @ 03h33:25 p.m. EDT, en route to Linden Airport, Linden, NJ for landing.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and interruptions of the video/audio stream, and my FOIA patches may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
There are more aerial pictures by Chet Wilson that were broadcast during WPIX' live coverage. I excluded those from the video, because they were tiny inset windows, sharing the TV screen with pictures in two or even three other windows.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Terence Nelsons's footage with Vince DeMentri & + (editor's cut)
This video contains mixed footage collected from six different folders from the source WCBS-TV / CBS2 New York, which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Terence Nelson, with journalist Vince DeMentri
Locations: Between West Street & Harrison Street and the north side of 7 WTC on Barclay Street, Manhattan, NY
Time: Between approx 03h15 p.m. - 05h22:40 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
00:16 »» Inside the 7 WTC security perimeter; approx 03h15 p.m. - 04h10 p.m. EDT
»» 00:16 »» Chambers Street & Greenwich & Street - interview;
»» 01:05 »» Chambers Street & West Street - firefighters on standby;
»» 01:59 »» short of West Street & Murray Street - dousing of 6 WTC;
»» 03:10 »» West Street & Murray Street - view of the Bank of New York (BNY) building, building 7 WTC, the Verizon building, and the former New York World-Telegram building;
»» 03:45 »» Walking east into Murray Street, then south into an unnamed alley;
»» 04:18 »» Inside the BNY building;
»» 04:41 »» South entrance of the BNY building, 101 Barclay Street - 7 WTC burning;
»» 05:29 »» Vince DeMentri making an appearance (raw) for his news story;
»» 06:44 »» View south into Washington Street, 7 WTC on the left, 6 WTC in the rear;
»» 06:57 »» View east into Barclay Street with 7 WTC and the Con Edison substation;
»» 08:15 »» Greenwich Street & Park Place - view of 7 WTC, left the old Filterman Hall (got damaged, demolished and rebuilt) of the Borough of Manhattan Community College;
»» 08:44 »» Greenwich Street & Barclay Street, at the southwest corner of Filterman Hall;
»» 09:04 »» West Broadway & Barclay Street, at the southeast corner of Filterman Hall;
»» 09:16 »» Burned cars on West Broadway between Barclay Street and Park Place;
»» 09:36 »» Vince DeMentri making another appearance (raw) for his news story;
»» 10:41 »» View south into West Broadway with burning 5 WTC in the rear;
»» 11:19 »» Short view of the Federal Office Building (U.S. Postal Service);
»» 11:23 »» Re-entering the BNY building via 240 Greenwich Street;
11:39 »» Static cam at West Street & Harrison Street; approx 04h20 p.m. - 04h50 p.m. EDT - no sound;
20:56 »» Static cam at West Street & Harrison Street; shortly before 05h00 p.m.;
21:35 »» WCBS-TV (CBS2 New York) live broadcast with Ernie Anastos & Dana Tyler in the studio, and Vince DeMentri reporting from West Street & Harrison Street; ~05h00:02 - ~05h08:00 p.m. EDT
29:39 »» Raw footage, West Street between Chambers & Harrison Street; ~05h20:07 - ~05h21:43 p.m. EDT
»» 29:39 »» Interview;
»» 30:17 »» East penthouse of 7 WTC starts to move downward @ 05h20:45 p.m. EDT;
»» 30:27 »» Beginning of 7 WTC global collapse @ 05h20:52 p.m. EDT;
31:21 »» Static cam at West Street & Harrison Street; approx 05h13:24 p.m. - 05h22:40 p.m. EDT
»» 38:40 »» East penthouse of 7 WTC starts to move downward @ 05h20:45 p.m. EDT;
»» 38:47 »» Beginning of 7 WTC global collapse, earliest moment of downward movement of the entire roofline, with a kink rapidly developing near external column 47 @ 05h20:52 p.m. EDT;
»» 40:20 »» Vince DeMentri and Terence Nelson saying 'goodbye' to their interviewee and coming back to their OB truck and their fellow crew members;
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and restored most of the audio. It is unclear whether the static cam temporarily did not record the surrounding sound, or whether that portion of the footage had been redacted, which I deem to be possible. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
Times in this video have been established based on the position of the sun and shadows on the ground, which comes close to the assessment made by NIST in their document NCSTAR 1-9. According to NIST, Terence Nelson's camera did not provide us with a time stamp. Also, as long as the journalists were on Barclay Street, the Con Edison substation under 7 WTC was still functional as it is clearly audible. According to the FEMA 403 study of 2002, this substation was shut down at 04h33 p.m. Another source to establish time was of course WCBS-TV itself, which matches the time stamp of CNN footage, as I have verified.
This video has been created exclusively for educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
Links:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1-9.pdf
https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403.pdf
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The September 11 Attacks - Jim Huibregtse's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Jim Huibregtse clip_1A.avi » to « Jim Huibregtse clip_25.avi », including numerous A-B-C sub-clips, which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I also have added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Jim Huibregtse
Location: Chambers Street & Greenwich Street, Manhattan, NY; view from the North
Time: 08h47 a.m. EDT throughout the day of September 11, 2001, during the night, and into the day after.
»» 00:12 »» Private footage, at PS 234 primary school, Greenwich Street & Chambers Street, moments before the North Tower got hit: the perpetrator aircraft was almost flying over their heads.;
»» 00:16 »» Shots taken from the PS 234 schoolyard beginning @ 08:47 a.m. EDT;
»» 10:48 »» Greenwich Street & Chambers Street;
»» 10:56 »» Greenwich Street & Warren Street at or shortly after 09h00 a.m. EDT;
»» 12:41 »» Shots taken from a window of a building at Greenwich Street & Chambers Street;
»» 13:02 »» Shots taken from a deck / balcony of a building at Greenwich Street & Chambers Street;
»» 15:46 »» The top of the South Tower (2 WTC) is tilting @ 09h59:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 24:09 »» The North Tower (1 WTC) collapses @ ~10h29, the footage does not show the initiation of the collapse - shot taken from indoors through a window;
»» 24:42 »» The aftermath;
»» 27:38 »» Building Seven (7 WTC) collapses @ ~05h21 p.m., the footage does not show the initiation of the collapse - shot taken from inside through a window;
»» 29:03 »» Earliest morning images, still at night, on September 12, taken from a rooftop deck - fighting fires in the 7 WTC pile of rubble;
»» 29:51 »» It's ~04:46 a.m. EDT on September 12;
»» 32:14 »» The day after images from a rooftop deck at Greenwich Street & Chambers Street - still firefighting but also early cleanup 7 WTC;
»» 34:47 »» The day after, Greenwich Street & Chambers Street, street level;
We are seeing a collection of about 100 short and very short clips. There is reason to believe that the material was intensively redacted by NIST, including portions of the audio. I maintain the character of these individual clips, and connected only those which yield in continuous footage until the collapse of Building 7, and I present short clips of the aftermath in groups.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Portions of the audio Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Luigi Cazzaniga's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Luigi Cazzaniga 01.avi » to « Luigi Cazzaniga 80.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Videographer: Luigi Cazzaniga
Locations: Across Lower Manhattan, NY
Time: 09h10:41 a.m. - ~10h32 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Mr. Cazzaniga walks with his camera and with us from street to street across Lower Manhattan, and he provides us with numerous details, and with precious impressions of how New Yorkers had experienced that morning. Very surprisingly, he apparently, or according to NIST, missed the collapse of the North Tower, though people around him were in anticipation minutes earlier that the collapse might happen.
»» 00:12 »» Great Jones Street, NoHo neighborhood, window shot @ 09h10:41 a.m. EDT, followed by a shot from a rooftop;
»» 02:14 »» Broadway & Grand Street;
»» 03:09 »» Broadway & Lispenard Street;
»» 03:30 »» Church Street & Worth Street;
»» 04:30 »» Walking south on West Broadway from Worth Street to Murray Street;
»» 07:30 »» Church Street & Murray Street;
»» 07:39 »» Around the southern tip of City Hall Park, from Murray Street via Park Row to the Surrogate's Courthouse on Chambers Street;
»» 09:51 »» Begin collapse of the South Tower (2 WTC) @ 09h58:55 a.m. EDT, shot from Park Row & Beekman Street;
»» 13:24 »» Southern tip of Foley Square (Federal Plaza);
»» 14:22 »» Broadway & Reade Street;
»» 14:44 »» Church Street & Reade Street walking north to Thomas Street;
»» 16:13 »» Walking west on Thomas Street, from West Broadway to Duane Street (Duane Park);
»» 16:29 »» Greenwich Street between Chambers Street and Jay Street;
»» 22:51 »» Greenwich Street & Jay Street @ 10h32:22 a.m. EDT.
The start time of the footage @ 09h10:41 a.m. EDT is verified thanks to the live broadcasting of WCBS-TV (CBS2). Ten seconds before the footage ends (22:51), the actual time was ~10h32:22 a.m. EDT, verified thanks to Richard Peskin's footage in which we can briefly observe Mr. Cazzaniga filming. The very last shot followed without significant delay, as the positions of people and vehicles on Greenwich Street indicate.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Richard Peskin's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Peskin 01.avi » to « Peskin 44.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Videographer: Richard Peskin
Location: Harrison Street & Greenwich Street, Manhattan, NY; view from the North
Time: 08h55:59 a.m. EDT throughout the day until dusk, September 11, 2001;
»» 00:16 »» Camera starts rolling @ I 08h55:59 a.m. EDT;
»» 05:22 »» South Tower got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. (not directly visible);
»» 16:43 »» South Tower just has fallen @ 09h59:20 a.m.;
»» 18:24 »» Videographer Mark LaGanga coincidentally captured filming from the top of his car at the Tribeca Bridge @ 10h01:17 a.m.;
»» 27:20 »» North Tower just has fallen @ 10h28:37 a.m.;
»» 30:03 »» Videographer Luigi Cazzaniga coincidentally captured filming on Greenwich Street, as the mobile command post of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is passing Mr. Cazzaniga very slowly between Duane Street and Jay Street @ 10h31:20 a.m.;
»» 33:55 »» 7 WTC on fire (smoke rising) @ 10h47:03 a.m. EDT;
»» 37:15 »» Dark smoke continues to rise from 7 WTC @ 11h11:37 a.m., as well as from burning cars on West Broadway but also on 200 West Street;
»» 42:16 »» 7 WTC on fire @ 04h37:42 p.m. EDT with new smoke developing on the north side;
»» 43:27 »» 7 WTC on fire @ 04h51:52 p.m.;
»» 44:04 »» 7 WTC just has fallen @ 05h21 p.m. EDT;
Mr. Peskin had a very privileged vantage point. Surprisingly, there is almost no consecutive footage available, only the present clips. This is intriguing. Fact is that during all three collapses, the camera started rolling just a couple of seconds too late. Another fact is, that after 19 min 17 sec accumulated footage runtime (19:50 in this video) Mr. Peskin is making a statement : "This is the second tape." We don't know which video system exactly he was using in 2001, neither which tapes. But most VHS tapes on the market offered a longer or much longer run-time. There are some clues, however without hard evidence, that Mr. Peskin is actually an experienced news correspondent, professionally equipped, and that his footage here is a by-product of his journalistic work.
The start time @ 08:55:59 a.m. EDT has been established through synchronization with Cindy Weil's footage, which was in part possible until 10:34:15 a.m. EDT. Later time stamps are based on information provided by NIST.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Jeff Sutch's footage (editor's cut)
Content warning : Scenes of people falling from the building. Viewer discretion is advised.
This video contains the files « CBS-Net Dub2 12.avi » to « CBS-Net Dub2 23.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Jeff Sutch
Locations: Broadway - Church Street - West Broadway, Manhattan, NY
Time: approx 08h48 a.m. - ~01h30:06 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Early images of the burning North Tower shot right from the base of Building Seven. The shoot came to a premature end after the South Tower was hit, and heavy debris was raining down on Jeff Sutch and his brother Scott.
»» 00:16 »» Broadway between Leonard Street & Worth Street @ approx 08h48 a.m.;
»» 00:39 »» Church Street & Warren Street @ ~08h53:57 a.m.;
»» 02:00 »» West Broadway & Warren Street @ ~08h56:36 a.m.;
»» 02:24 »» West Broadway & Barclay Street @ ~08h58:16 a.m.;
»» 07:09 »» South Tower got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 08:00 »» West Broadway & Park Place, retreating to Warren Street @ approx 09h04;
»» 09:11 »» West Broadway & Chambers Street, retreating to Reade Street @ approx 09h07 a.m.;
»» 09:49 »» balcony shot from Broadway near Franklin Street @ 10h00 a.m.;
»» 11:36 »» Interview, WCBS-TV live with Ernie Anastos & Dana Tyler in the studio @ ~01h28:53 - ~01h30:06 p.m. EDT.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
Actual times have been established thanks to the footage provided by Cindy Weil, Jim Huibregtse, Luigi Cazzaniga, as well as by WCBS-TV.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Scott Myers' footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Myers_clip1.avi » to « Myers_clip10.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Scott Myers (1953 - 2021)
Location: John Street & Broadway, Manhattan, NY; view from the East
Time: ~08h46:50 - approx 09h15 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001
»» 00:11 »» The weekend before (private footage);
»» 00:46 »» On a rooftop @ ~08h46:50 a.m. EDT, the North Tower (1 WTC) was just hit;
»» 02:27 »» Camera now mounted on a tripod, adjusting;
»» 02:51 »» 08h49:47 a.m., camera position unchanged until 09h14:11 a.m. EDT;
»» 16:07 »» South Tower (2 WTC) got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT;
»» 27:16 »» Closeup shot of the North Tower, 96th floor 96 down to 92nd floor;
»» 27:53 »» Aftermath.
The time when the camera started rolling @ ~08h46:50 a.m. has been established with the help of footage from the film '11|09' by Jules & Gédéon Naudet, and also with raw footage shot by a WNYW (FOX5) news crew (team Dick Olivier) from City Hall Park.
Recently, I've learned that Scott Myers became the victim of a homicide, on November 26, 2021 in his home in Catskill, NY. Being shocked by this news, I would like to express my condolences to all those who loved him.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
I also have redacted the footage released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request. I decided to protect the privacy of those people, often children, who're unrelated to the event. Therefore, I only added 35 frames (in the form of still images) to this present video, but without concealing this material. It is a little unclear to me why NIST has responded to the FOIA request with private footage that is not directly related to the attacks.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Cindy Weil's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Cindy Weil 01.avi » to « Cindy Weil 23.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through FOIA requests (DOC-NIST-2015-001861 & DOC-NIST-2020-000684), and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer : Cindy Weil
Location : Hudson Street & Duane Street, Manhattan, New York, NY
Time : approx 08h51 - 10h31:30 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001
This is a special video containing 58 consecutive minutes of non-stop footage, including the collapse of both towers, providing viewers with an actual feeling of time as it happened. It is also a very emotional video. Viewers witness how Cindy, a young Mom with her Baby alone at home, is terrified and scared by what she's seen and heard.
00:16 »» Shot # 1 : 08:51 - 08:52 a.m. EDT (unverified);
00:22 »» Shot # 2 : 08:51 - 08:52 a.m. EDT (unverified);
00:50 »» Shot # 3 : 08:53:10 - 09:21:52 a.m. EDT (verified), camera on a tripod;
»» 10:40 »» South Tower (2 WTC) got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. EDT;
29:38 »» Shot # 4 : 09:27:45 - 09:32:24 a.m. EDT (verified);
34:22 »» Shot # 5 : 09:33:31 - 10:31:30 a.m. EDT (verified);
»» 59:50 »» South Tower (2 WTC) begins to collapse @ 09h58:58 a.m. EDT;
»» 01:29:13 »» North Tower (1 WTC) begins to collapse @ 10h28:22 a.m. EDT;
To establish actual times in EDT, I synchronized the audio track of the footage (shots # 3 & # 5) with the audio track of CNN's live coverage of that day. I synchronized shot # 4 with the aerial (chopper) footage broadcast by WPIX (WB11), crosschecked with aerial footage provided by WNYW (FOX5).
On a personal note : viewers who are familiar with 9/11 research or who have seen similar videos elsewhere on the internet may notice that I am using a different Time reference system than the U.S. government or researchers either directly or indirectly affiliated with them. I deny the existence of any imaginary RTVA "NIST Relative Time for Visual Analysis" or anything similar, and I believe that any confusion about time on September 11 is intentional. There is only one official time in the United States, and it is provided by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Master Clock. Back in 2001, it was broadcast thru the Digital Time Code of NIST's WWV /WWVB radio station. Therefore, I made my own time analysis using this official time code relayed by various TV broadcasters. Time uncertainty in this video is about 1 second.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and restored the audio. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Andrea Star Reese's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Andrea clip_1A.avi » to « Andrea clip9.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I have added additional footage of most probably September 12th, which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Andrea Star Reese
Location: Greenwich Street & Chambers Street, Manhattan, NY; view from the North
Time: 08h55:58 - 09h43:33 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
00:16 »» Shot # 1 : 08:55:58 - 08:57:05 a.m. EDT;
01:29 »» Shot # 2 : 08:59:02 - 09:00:07 a.m. EDT;
02:39 »» Shot # 3 : 09:03:04 - 09:04:17 a.m. EDT;
»» 02:41 »» Fireball @ 09h03:06 a.m. after the South Tower (2 WTC) just was hit;
03:57 »» Shot # 4 : 09:05:19 - 09:19:34 a.m. EDT, camera now on a tripod;
18:18 »» Shot # 5 : 09:20:51 - 09:28:30 a.m. EDT;
26:02 »» Shot # 6 : 09:31:30 - 09:33:30 a.m. EDT;
28:08 »» Shot # 7 : 09:34:40 - 09:35:56 a.m. EDT;
29:29 »» Shot # 8 : 09:41:35 - 09:43:33 a.m. EDT;
»» 29:37 »» In this clip, in addition to the many people trapped on higher floors, there is a human arm waving a dark cloth from a broken window directly under the starboard wingtip (99th floor) @ 09h41:43 a.m.. The cloth has been visible since the beginning of the clip, but now the moving human arm can be identified;
»» 30:53 »» The famous 'waving woman' on the 94th floor, who is believed to be Edna Cintron, has moved her body again @ 09h42:59 a.m., after she had been standing there without motion for about half an hour. She miraculously survived the impact, when the left engine missed her by a few inches, also the fireball, and was then trapped at her position. She can be seen in other videos at least until 10h15 a.m., albeit from afar, and she most likely went down with the tower at 10h28 a.m.. I didn't see anybody jump from her position during the final minutes, (Cindy Weil's continuous footage);
31:32 »» Shot # 9 : bonus footage, most likely of September 12, including early clean-up operation of what used to be Building Seven.
I verified all times in EDT through synchronization of the audio track with CNN's live coverage, and also with Cindy Weil's footage, which itself I have synchronized with CNN, as well as, in part, with WPIX and WNYW. Time uncertainty is within 1 second.
On a personal note : viewers who are familiar with 9/11 research or who have seen similar videos elsewhere on the internet may notice that I'm using a different Time reference system than the U.S. government or researchers either directly or indirectly affiliated with them. I'm exclusively using the official time in the United States, and it is provided by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Master Clock. Back in 2001, it was broadcast thru the Digital Time Code of NIST's WWV /WWVB radio station.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Evan Fairbanks' footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Evan Fairbanks 01.avi » to « Evan Fairbanks 13.avi », which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I added additional footage which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Evan Fairbanks
Locations: South-eastern corner of the World Trade Center, Manhattan, NY
Time: Approx 08h50 - 10h00:11 a.m. & 04h58:55 - 05h05:01 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Evan Fairbanks had the questionable 'privilege' of being a person of interest for law enforcement officers because of some footage which he had on tape. They wanted a dub. This allowed him to shoot footage at places where other journalist had been banned from, and to document some valuable details.
00:16 »» Evan Fairbanks' footage; approx 08h50 a.m. - ~10h00:11 a.m. EDT
»» 00:16 »» From Trinity Bridge across Trinity Place at Trinity Church;
»» 01:45 »» Walking Trinity Place north from Trinity Bridge via Thames to Cedar Street;
»» 04:28 »» Trinity Place between Cedar and Liberty Street;
»» 05:01 »» Around the southwestern corner of Trinity Place and Liberty Street;
»» 06:58 »» South Tower got hit @ 09h03:00 a.m. ETD;
»» 09:23 »» Remaining civilians get chased away by Police;
»» 09:56 »» Walking down to the FDNY Ten House at Liberty & Greenwich Street;
»» 11:53 »» With law enforcement officers under the concrete overhand at the entrance of the Deutsche Bank Building (formerly Bankers Trust Plaza) at 130 Liberty Street, between Greenwich & Washington Street;
»» 14:48 »» Police asked Evan Fairbanks to film an allegedly "suspicious" male near the entrance of building 4 WTC, who actually had a press pass, but was ordered to leave anyway;
»» 15:20 »» Back at the FDNY Ten House;
»» 17:44 »» Concourse level under building 5 WTC (after a walk with police officers across Liberty Street and the concourse level under building 4 WTC) - most people who were evacuating the twin towers had been directed via the underground concourse level to protect them from falling debris;
»» 19:02 »» Inside the Port Authority Police Desk in building 5 WTC;
»» 20:20 »» Exiting building 5 WTC at Church & Fulton Street;
»» 21:31 »» Collapse of the South Tower as seen from Church & Fulton Street;
»» 21:50 »» Church & Barclay Street, running north on Church Street;
22:45 »» Evan Fairbanks interviewed by Peter Jennings in the studio, ABC News live broadcast; 04h58:55 - 05h05:01 p.m. EDT; September 11, 2001.
The audio is completely missing and replaced by electronic noise on most files provided by NIST. I recovered and adjusted a portion of the audio track of about 6 minutes from a redacted clip provided by the FBI 604_WTCI_454_I.mp4, and I reduced the noise level by 15 dB for viewers comfort.
The two Port Authority Police Officers, Detective Fitzgerald and Detective Wheeler, who wanted to obtain a dub of the footage, never got this, since they were separated from Mr. Fairbanks during the dusty darkness after the collapse. However, in their written Personal Statement to the FBI they mention briefly: "The FBI did learn about and view the video that Evan Fairbanks had." The redacted FBI clip, which is publicly available, is evidence of that.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Anthony Sevilla's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Anthony Sevilla 01.avi » to « Anthony Sevilla 24.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Videographer: Anthony Sevilla
Locations: Broadway, Manhattan, NY
Time: approx 09h05 - 09h55 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Impressions of a walk through the Financial District of Manhattan with views of the burning twin towers from the East, from different street intersections. The footage starts after both towers had already been hit, and ends when the collapse of the South Tower was imminent.
»» 00:12 »» Nassau Street & Maiden Lane
»» 01:46 »» Maiden Lane
»» 02:20 »» Broadway & Cortlandt Street
»» 04:10 »» Broadway & Liberty Street
»» 05:18 »» Broadway & Cedar Street
»» 06:48 »» Broadway & Liberty Street
»» 07:16 »» Broadway & Cortlandt Street
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is'.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Ed Peterman's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « Ed Peterman clip01.avi » to « Ed Peterman clip14.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as well as some additional footage, which was released through NIST FOIA #09-42 request, and which is not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer: Ed Peterman
Locations: Battery Place & Battery Park City (North Cove Marina), Manhattan, NY
Time: before 09h00 - 10h00 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001; and on September 14.
Among the tons of footage that have been shot by numerous videographers on that day, only some videos include ground-level views from the South or from the West. Ed Peterman's limited footage offers us both of them. He started shooting from Battery Place at the southern tip of Manhattan. Then he walked waterfront along Battery Park City Esplanade north to the North Cove Marina, until he ran from the dust cloud of the first collapse, and returned to the southern tip of the city.
»» 00:12 »» before or around 9 a.m. : view from the South, via West Street
»» 02:03 »» after 9:05 a.m. : view from the South, via Washington Street
»» 03:37 »» around 9:30 a.m. : view from the South, again via West Street
»» 04:03 »» between 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. : view from the West, from the North Cove Marina
»» 04:32 »» later on September 11 : street scene near the Whitehall Street subway station
»» 04:43 »» probably September 14 : street scenes from Battery Place at State Street
»» 04:52 »» probably September 14 : street scenes from Battery Place at Greenwich Street
I established the date 'September 14' for the last two shots. There was no precipitation in New York between September 11 and 13. However, in the morning of September 14, a Friday, there was light rain, and we notice that the asphalt is moist, and the sky is covered with clouds in those shots.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - William Cirone's footage & + (editor's cut)
This video contains the files « William Cirone 01.avi » to « William Cirone 49.avi » which have been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I have complemented the footage with two clips which were released via FOIA request but are not available on NIST's cloud server.
Videographer : William Cirone
Locations : Ground Zero from the East, the North, the West, Manhattan, New York
Time: approx 10h45 a.m. - 04h20 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
Possibly the first video evidence after the second collapse. Mr. Cirone was apparently a photographer for the Fire Department of New Jersey. This footage is complicated. The alleged 'original' video is made up of clips which don't follow a chronological sequence. This makes orientation in time and space difficult. I tried to reconstruct a plausible walking route.
In addition, relatively important footage from West Broadway & Barclay Street is missing on NIST's server. Mr. Cirone, a firefighter, certainly would have captured on video what was going on there at a time when he also was there. I compensate the missing footage. There is reason to believe that the added material has been shot either by Mr. Cirone himself, or by the photographer who accompanied him. A male wearing a white T-shirt, short hair and glasses, visible in several of his shots throughout the day.
To facilitate spacial orientation in this smokey, dirty and dusty chaos, I have carefully identified the shooting locations :
»» 00:12 »» Cedar Street & Broadway : First looking north over the Harry B. Helmsey Plaza towards One Liberty Plaza; Then looking southeast towards Nassau Street;
»» 00:34 »» Broadway & Dey Street : First looking northwest towards Ground Zero; Then southwest towards the corner Broadway & John Street; Turning, looking southwest into Broadway & John Street; Then looking southeast into John Street; And again southwest into Broadway; Then looking northeast into Broadway towards Fulton Street; Finally moving northeast on Broadway between Dey and Fulton Streets;
»» 01:32 »» Church Street & Liberty Street, western corner of One Liberty Plaza : Looking first south over Zuchotti Park; Then northwest toward Ground Zero; Then moving north on Broadway towards Cortlandt Street, looking west;
»» 02:43 »» Church Street & Dey Street : In front of the former East River Savings Bank building; Then moving north between Dey and Fulton in front of the Millennium Hotel whilst looking towards ground Zero, actually facing 4 WTC and 5 WTC;
»» 04:32 »» West Broadway & Vesey Street i.e. the southeastern corner of 7 WTC : First overlooking Versey Street; Then moving north on West Broadway along the eastern face of 7 WTC, however not yet reaching Barclay Street;
»» 05:56 »» Additional, added footage, shot on Barclay Street and the corner West Broadway & Barclay, at a time approximately when Mr. Cirone was filming in that area; including Mr. Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel for New York City, calling for help when he and Mr. Barry Jennings of the city's Housing Department were trapped in Building Seven after trying to evacuate late;
»» 08:42 »» Additional, added footage, most probably shot by Mr. Cirone himself : West Broadway & Barclay Street, starting with a broken window at the southeastern corner of Filterman Hall (Borough of Manhattan Community College); Then looking east into Barclay, briefly via West Broadway south towards Ground Zero; Also a look at the famous "number 75 Barclay Street" of Mayor Giuliani; Thereafter moving via Barclay to Washington Street, the northwestern corner of 7 WTC with a view towards 6 WTC;
»» 09:54 »» Barclay Street & Washington Street : Looking along the western face of 7 WTC towards 6 WTC; Then a brief look into Barclay Street east, with Filterman Hall on the left, 7 WTC and the conEdison electricity substation on the right, and the Federal Building in the rear;
»» 10:24 »» West Street & Vesey Street : Looking at 6 WTC and briefly south into West Street;
»» 11:10 »» Additional footage, most probably shot by Mr. Cirone himself : West Street & Vesey, looking at 6 WTC and briefly north into West Street;
»» 11:36 »» West Street & Vesey Street : Looking at 6 WTC and into Vesey Street towards 7 WTC; Then turning the view southwest towards the World Financial Center (renamed Brookfield Place); And finally north into West Street;
»» 14:20 »» Additional footage, most probably shot by Mr. Cirone himself : West Street & Vesey Street, looking east towards 6 WTC and 7 WTC as well as at the Verizon Building on the left;
»» 14:54 »» West Street & Liberty Street : North of the skybridge across West Street connecting the World Financial Center with the World Trade Center, looking west at number 200, formerly known as One World Financial Center and at 225 Liberty Street (2 WFC) including the skybridge across Liberty Street connecting those two buildings; Then looking east towards Ground Zero and the remains of 3 WTC, the former Marriott Hotel;
»» 15:59 »» West Street & Cedar Street : Now south of the skybridge across West Street, looking at 200 Liberty Street (1 WFC); Looking south into West Street; And northeast to the World Trade Center;
»» 17:09 »» Albany Street & South End Avenue : First looking west towards Two World Financial Center in the rear; Strafing One World Financial Center when moving the camera and buildings at West Street in the rear; Finally a look into South End Avenue to the south;
»» 17:28 »» Vesey Street : Looking east towards 6 WTC and 7 WTC as well as at the Verizon Building;
»» 17:50 »» West Street : Looking first from 200 West St, which is today the Goldman Sachs Headquarters but was in 2001 an undeveloped parking lot, towards WTC 6; Then moving north on West Street until the Tribeca Bridge at Chambers Street.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and restored the audio. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes.
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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The September 11 Attacks - Mark LaGanga's footage (editor's cut)
This video contains portions of a private dub of raw footage shot by Mark LaGanga. I complemented the material with footage from the CBS-Net Dub3 folder, which has been released to the public by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I also added a short clip, a bird's-eye view, courtesy of Richard Peskin.
Videographer: Mark LaGanga
Locations: West Street, Vesey Street, Battery Park City, Manhattan, NY
Time: ~10h01:17 a.m. - approx 10h45 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2001.
00:16 »» Mark LaGanga standing with his camera on the top of his sedan at West Street & Chambers Street, and started shooting - a short clip of Richard Peskin's footage;
00:34 »» Tape #1; ~10h01:17 a.m. - ~10h31:34 a.m. EDT
»» 00:34 »» West Street & Chambers Street, just south of Tribeca Bridge;
»» 01:32 »» West Street short of Warren Street;
»» 02:39 »» Running south on West Street between Warren Street and Murray Street;
»» 03:10 »» Running south on West Street between Murray Street and Barclay Street;
»» 03:51 »» West Street & Vesey Street;
»» 04:45 »» Vesey Street between West Street and Washington Street, alongside 6 WTC;
»» 05:05 »» 7 WTC loading dock on Vesey Street, under the Plaza Bridge;
»» 05:35 »» 7 WTC, Vesey Street between the two pedestrian bridges;
»» 06:09 »» Inside 7 WTC;
»» 06:33 »» 7 WTC Main Lobby on the 3rd floor;
»» 09:00 »» Exiting 7 WTC, back on Vesey Street;
»» 09:49 »» Walking around the northwestern corner of 6 WTC, Vesey Street & West Street;
»» 11:43 »» West Street in front of 1 WTC (North Tower) and 3 WTC (Marriott Hotel);
»» 13:50 »» West Street in front of Two World Financial Center, views of 1 WTC & 3 WTC;
»» 16:24 »» West Street in front of Three World Financial Center (American Express Tower);
»» 17:58 »» West Street between Vesey Street and Murray Street, opposite the former 'World Telegram' building, behind that fence, the Goldman Sachs headquarters has been build later;
»» 18:25 »» Collapse of the South Tower (2 WTC) @ 10h28:22 a.m. EDT;
20:52 »» Tape #2, ~10h35 a.m. - ~10h45 a.m. EDT;
»» 20:52 »» Murray Street (Battery Park City) between West Street and North End Avenue, at the former Embassy Suites Hotel, now Conrad NY Downtown Hotel;
»» 23:46 »» North End Avenue north of Murray Street (Battery Park City);
»» 25:42 »» Short detour into Warren Street (Battery Park City);
»» 26:16 »» North End Avenue (Battery Park City);
»» 27:14 »» Chambers Street (Battery Park City) at Stuyvesant High School, walking back to West Street at the Tribeca Bridge;
Mark LaGanga is a photojournalist from New York who has worked primarily for CBS and affiliated producers. Having personally work-experience as a news reporter, I am highly impressed by the extraordinary quality of his work, and by his professionalism. Or, as one unidentified crew-member of one the OB trucks of CBS correctly said @ 20:23 in the dark: "You're just the best!". Consequently, portions of his footage were the very first images from the ground that viewers across the globe have seen on TV, less than half an hour after the second collapse.
I refrain from digital image manipulation. In my opinion, any so-called 'enhancement', as observed in similar video creations elsewhere, is tampering with evidence. I consider this video document as material evidence in the disaster investigation. My objective is to use as much raw footage as ever available for a highly authentic document, and to avoid edited material if possible. I also conserved artifacts 'as is', and the FOIA patches which I may use may have encountered earlier compression losses.
However, I adapted all footage to NTSC standard (SD), doubled the frame rate to 59.94 fps (60000/1001), and tried to restore the audio, if possible, when necessary. Though working with mostly uncompressed footage, this online version is presented in the HEVC/H.265 video compression format.
CBS has created an AI enhanced Premium edition of Mr. LaGanga's footage and used it in a documentary. The present video does not use any of this.
This video has been created for exclusively educational, non-profit purposes. The usage of commercial footage shall be regarded under the conditions of 17 U.S. Code § 17 (Fair use).
Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11, 2001, and in the aftermath of that day. May they rest in Peace.
Thank you for taking the time to inform yourself.
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