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.Show more

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