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).Show more

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.