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).Show more

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.