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•     AS IT HAPPENED ::: ANGLES SEEN ON TV NEWS AT 9:59     •

"Don Dahler. I'm four blocks north of the World Trade Center. The second building that was hit by the plane has just completely collapsed. The entire building has just collapsed, as if a demolition team set off--when you see the old demolitions of these old buildings. It folded down on itself, and it's not there any more."

The transcript of ABC's Don Dahler and anchor Peter Jennings is fascinating. Dahler proceeds to specifically retract his statement, as if prompted. A related retraction: expert Van Romero.

NewsCopter7 hovered more than 5 miles from the scene, as other choppers had been advised to do. Hear John DelGiorno report the 5 mile limitation at about 9:18 am, 10 minutes after arriving at the scene. Paul Smith (R.I.P.) of Helicopters Inc. piloted the aircraft. See MORE on Chopper7 now, regarding the 2nd plane impact videos. Also, download the ABC7 (WABC) mpeg2 (66.0MB, duration 1:58).

Less than a minute before the "collapse," molten metal poured from the NE corner of the 80th floor of WTC 2, below the starboard engine's exit hole from "UA Flight 175." Was this really aluminum from the plane and office furniture, or was it structural steel and superthermite? Also, smoke rose from ground level. Is this burning debris and/or cars? Or is it the result of sub-level explosions aimed at wrecking the foundation?

Note: BBC aired the ABC footage in the last seconds of the destruction, fading in from news at the Pentagon. Technically, the British network missed the event; and will not be included in this list.

Point of perspective: 40.798607,-73.976269 - "Over the point where W 99th St would meet the Hudson River, if it went through. 6.25 miles to the WTC, 14.0 miles to the Western Verrazano-Narrows Bridge pillar." (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

Chopper2 was piloted by Ed Baker, with Jim Smith reporting. Hear the names mentioned during the broadcast at 9:10. WCBS reporter Joe Biermann was also aboard, according to one source. Choppers were advised to stay 5 miles away from the WTC after the 2nd plane hit (see ABC above). Still this is one of the better views of the event. Notice FOX News aired from this camera LIVE (See the photo at left). For a high quality airing, see the History Channel version. Also, try to answer Femr2's question about the video.

Note that the Washington D.C. CBS affiliate broadcast (as seen in the 9/11 TV archive at archive.org) was concentrating on the attack on the Pentagon. The South Tower disappeared off camera. Also, the national CBS network coverage missed the event, but while replaying the 2nd plane impact.

Notice the North Tower flared up simultaneously on the southern face— officially explained by air suction or overdraft. Timed explosives may make more sense.

ABOUT THIS LIST: Although CNN footage is included in the LIVE playlist above, the network didn't really broadcast the collapse LIVE. That angle will be found in Network Views and Replays. Likewise, CBS won't be listed here. That is, unless somebody shows me the videos from the 2 CBS cameras! (Here's the North Tower collapse from CBS LIVE from their stationary camera at the General Motors Building, aka FAO Schwartz, E 58th St at Madison Ave. The other camera caught the 2nd plane live [a glimpse], from a building near the CBS Broadcast Center (530 W 57th St), on the Trump International Hotel & Tower at 1 Central Park West.)

Only views showing the tower descending (for at least two seconds) will be listed. For example, the WB11 Empire State Building view listed under Network Views/Replays was seen LIVE on ABC7, but it's not listed under LIVE angles because the camera view changed to NewsCopter7 after less than one second.

From 5 miles away (and in close proximity to ABC NewsCopter7), Chopper4 just finishes its zoom out as the "collapse" begins. The pilot remains unknown and the onboard reporter, April Amonica, is given no airtime. Hear April report the 5 mile restriction ten minutes after the 2nd plane impact, on the local WNBC network. Nationally, a longer version was replayed a minute afterward so Matt Lauer and Katie Couric could see for themselves in the "Today Show" studio. The distant, wobbly, yellow-tinted shot was replayed little afterward.

NBC brings us the most angles of any network. Their local "SkyCam" network probably caught more than we've seen, too. See this image for example-- an angle without a matching video on record (no 2nd plane video, either - source). See also 4 and 17 below.

On March 8, 1996, WNBC unveiled the first-of-its-kind Skycam Network consisting of high resolution, remote controlled cameras perched at key points of interest across the Tri-State area. The Skycam Network is in operation 24 hours a day and features 24 cameras. The state-of-the-art Skycam Network is an investment in WNBC's overall coverage of the Tri-State area and is used in all local newscasts. Since its debut, the station has used the Skycam Network to highlight traffic situations; check on Newark, LaGuardia and Kennedy airports; present live pictures of developing weather situations; and, capture breaking news stories.... - http://www.telemundo47.com/station/1169359/detail.html

The live picture fades from Chopper4 to this camera on top of the 70-story GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center, which became an observation deck/tourist attraction - "Top of the Rock" - in 2005. The building is home to most of NBC's New York studios.

Notice the skewed, leaning view. Hear anchor Matt Lauer be prompted to say the towers WERE leaning. At 9:07 am!

A third LIVE NBC camera broadcasts from a building NE of the WTC, but only as the dust cloud begins to rise. A full length replay airs 7 minutes after the event. (See non-LIVE views below, NBC Woolworth view.)

Walter Perez of WNBC interviews a woman who evacuated the North Tower-- which obscures the view. Notice the audio from this broadcast in the background of an amateur video -- "Spiegel TV".

The MSNBC version comes from a VHS upload to YouTube.

Nearby Kristen Shaughnessy of NY1, speaking from her telephone, tells us suddenly "it's exploding." The cameraman is unknown, but NY1 crew in the area included John Schiumo (heard at 9:21 am say "here in Battery Park City" - nearby), Wiener Milien (named with a caption in HBO's "In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01 - not nearby), Yogi Colon (seen narrating his collapse aftermath footage in the studio at 2:04 pm) ....

It seems the camera shakes slightly a few seconds before the collapse, as if there were an explosion underground prior to "collapse." Of course, we can't see the camera. It may be on the cameraman's shoulder, or it may have been bumped. Let us not forget the canon of evidence for lower level explosions.

Pilot: Ray Rivera. Reporter: Melinda Murphy (won an Emmy for breaking news 9/11). Camera: Chet Wilson and Brenda Banon (training as photographer). The LIVE WB11 footage features shots from both Chopper 11 - aka "Air11" - and WCBS Chopper2. The WB11 Empire State Building camera also captured the action, but only broadcast LIVE for a moment-- as the dust cloud rose. Nevermind that WB11 left up their LIVE banner during a replay later, as seen here on CNN at 4:05 pm. Speaking of replays, see one of the Air11 LIVE shot on CNN at 4:23 pm.

Note that WB11 is now "The CW" 11, flying N27M, the old CBS2 ship.

Left on the split screen is the Chopper5 footage, which misses the event for the most part. On the right, veteran reporter Dick Oliver and his cameraman were set up in front of the car wash at 124 Ave of the Americas. About half an hour later, that same perspective would capture the North Tower's demise.

As the "collapse" occurs, senior anchor Jim Ryan in the studio tells us "We had a report indicating that -- uh -- that there was an explosion on the lower floors." The source of this is unknown, but others have verified the event at street level as the destruction began (in each of the two towers). Remember William Rodriguez reported explosions in the basement of WTC 1. See also CBS's Carol Marin describe her experience in close proximity. Better, Ron DiFrancesco tells of ground level fireballs as the WTC 2 "collapse" began. He knows they were real because they burned most of his body as he escaped.

•     NETWORK VIEWS ::: NEWS CAMERAS, REPLAYS     •

This is perhaps the closest view of the event. So, it's a short view! Aired 9/11 evening on ABC nationwide. Interestingly, extended length rare tape from the camera (or one closeby) shows smoke rising from the base of the towers, between them around the time when videotape (unknown, maybe WNYW) is missing from the historical record. There was an explosion at 9:37, footage of which is mysteriously missing:

The video shot from the WTC plaza captured an intriguing event at 9:37:04 a.m. A jet of air, dust, and a large piece of debris was ejected from a window, 77-355, on the 77th floor at an extremely high velocity. Longer distance videos show that puffs of smoke and or dust appeared simultaneously on the east face from several open windows near the center of the 78th floor and from open windows on the north side of the 79th floor."
- Page 50/268 in NIST NCSTAR1-5A Ch 9 Appx C.

Their theory of why it happened is on page 55/268, third paragraph. NIST recently was served an FOIA request for all photos and video used in their investigation: http://wtc.nist.gov. We'll see. This information is related to the ABC7 video because of said rare video. Due to the sensational nature of the "collapses" and plane impacts, much of the video between 9:03 and 9:59 am has been lost.

Camera angle named for LIVE CBS 2nd plane impact video whose flightpath was thought to be evidence for fake plane videos. It turns out the flightpath is the same in every video.

Although the plane impact video shot from this angle was a replay favorite for several TV channels, this South Tower collapse video didn't get much airtime. (Update: the clip is on the wcbstv.com website after the Chopper2 shot.) Strangely, two other CBS cameras missed the collapse: the CBS camera on the Trump International Hotel & Tower at 1 Central Park West near the CBS Broadcast Center (at 530 W 57th St) -- which is the 1st view seen as CBS fades in from Pentagon coverage -- AND the camera on the General Motors Building, aka FAO Schwartz, E 58th St at Madison Ave. That's the one with the Empire State Building in the shot on the right. DID these two cameras record the event?

CNN had their camera at 5 Penn Plaza (their New York headquarters) up and running early that morning. See a clip from 8:00 am on CNNfn (taken from this news compilation on the Ebbetts DVD "As It Happened").

As the footage plays, anchor Aaron Brown says, "It almost looks like one of those planned implosions." How true.

The actual "collapse" part of the video never aired on 9/11— only what aired LIVE when coverage cut from D.C. to New York in the last moments, as the cloud rose. That was replayed many times. CNN had a few cameras atop their building at 5 Penn Plaza. However, this footage is rare. It is on the CNN ImageSource website (search for 'wtc collapse' and find WTC/1ST TOWER COLLAPSE - CNN ID:91039391), but watermarked terribly. See it in a compilation by Xenomorph911WTC, who used screengrab software before the watermark was implemented at ImageSource. Find the clip with a download link at Xenomorph911's LiveVideo page.

Oddly on the ImageSource site it says, "Source:WABC." That is wrong. It was shot from the same perspective as the CNN 9:13 am replay of the 2nd plane impact - explosion only, and of course the LIVE CNN 10:01 am.

Description: - THIS VIDEO IS UNAVAILABLE IN HIGH RES DUE TO UNRETRIEVABLE FILE IN DIGITAL ARCHIVE; USE TAPE COPY INSTEAD

So far, I've only found one airing in German. An intensive search of the TV archive has returned not one single airing. Not that it means a conspiracy is involved in this particular bit of footage, of course. There was a lot of video shot that day. Some landed on the cutting room floor, so to speak. But THIS?

Compare to Alfie Alvarado's shot. This camera is about 120 feet closer.

Apparently the footage wasn't worthy of appearing in the "CNN Tribute: America Remembers" (2002) -- where the videographer was identified while narrating his dust cloud scene. See that sequence here -- (after a different video of the actual "collapse") -- footage begins as the dust cloud rises. The actual "collapse" footage is in "Why the Towers Fell" (PBS, 2002). A longer version must be available somewhere. A search of the archive.org CNN files finds nothing among the 20-odd other shots.

CNN videographer named during an airing 9/12 at 1:07 am, when Tom told the story of his day during his footage broadcast. His report begins with the "collapse," shot from the South Street Viaduct (the people in his video are standing by 45 Peck Slip below to his right. Thanks, YougeneDebs for the location!) Tom also taped a police officer guarding a small numbered plane part found on a car near Trinity Church.

See the "CNN Tribute: America Remembers" (2002) DVD, for the highest quality version of Tom's footage. "America Remembers" CNN videographers also included Rose Arce (a producer -- watch her report -- [in different form here]) and Phil Hirschkorn (a producer -- see his 1 minute clip). Another airing of the Muccio footage: CNN 9/11 at 9:15 pm. Also, see a rare German show that used the clip.

A professional camera operator and female reporter with a microphone may not have been employed by FNN, but their shot was exclusive to the Japanese network. The YouTube link 1 above comes from a Japanese news excerpts collection made available by Xenomorph911WTC (seen at link 3 above). Thanks again, Xeno!

The view is quite similar to the clip from NBC producer Shachar Bar-on, below.

Don Callopy Field Tape Clip 18 of 26 at itnsource.com. The clip is listed as copyright FOX News, although I can't find one single time the footage has been aired on TV. Search the 9/11 TV archive yourself— and a huge list of mainstream documentaries. Similar views were captured by WABC (number 22 below) and WCBS (23 below).

Footage comes from a rare VHS tape posted on YouTube. This wide "harbor shot" does a good job describing the scope of the day's events, especially as the dust envelops Manhattan. See also the North Tower footage from this angle, in better quality.

As highlighted in this closeup zoomed version, a detonation/ejection occured several floors above the crush point/initiation level of the 81st floor NE corner, causing a destructive kink like that of the SE corner at the 106th floor. Only with the one on the NE corner, there was a visible explosion. See also amateurs CameraPlanet Spiegel from Brooklyn and History Channel w/ Woolworth (the latter being a very similar view).

Some archive airings: 10:06 am (download clip), 10:10, ... 9/12 at 11:25 am, 9/12 at 11:33 am....

Martin purchased a camera from a pedestrian. He barely escaped with his life. Thanks to his bravery we have a rare look at the south wall of the tower, and the debris falling to the street below.

Aired at 7:13 pm on 9/11. Martin tells his story. See it in extended form at the MSNBC website or even more extended at the TV archive, 9/12 at 3:56 am.

Bar-on's footage aired on 9/11 at 8:20 pm, with the videographer's narration (about an hour after co-worker Martin narrated his footage - see above). A more complete version aired at 9:20 pm, and several times afterward. See and hear Bar-on's story of the 2nd plane hit on MSNBC's website. The short online video uses Martin's South Tower "collapse" footage instead of Bar-on's.

Both NBC producers' South Tower clips were featured in the 2008 BBC hit piece "The Conspiracy Files - 9/11: The Third Tower."

Shot from Fulton and Broadway, she says. The destruction and death is seen from behind a cross. Anne's full report can be seen in the archive, 9/11 at 7:05 pm. Notice the usage of the word "explosion." Popular word that day.

NY1 may have broadcast this shot, but I can't find it. Only on the History Channel's Modern Marvels "Demolition" episode, found in .avi format here or in link 2 above, "'Steel was coming out red' at Ground Zero...." Molten steel, you ask?

This shot was aired by CNN on a repeat cycle with other clips from WCBS (Chopper2), WPIX (Air11), etc. The collage of CNN footage is a chaotic mess of unsourced clips. See 12:40 on CNN for an example with audio targeting Osama Bin Laden. Download the raw source file titled "RawNewsFeed.flv" now. See additional footage on the original file of WCBS from very nearby (listed separately below). The WABC clip was aired on WB11 (WPIX) just after 11:00 am on 9/11, and, of course, on ABC nationwide. See another similar view above: TV amateur Don Callopy for FOX.

Plus, HQ untelevised amateur "Veoh" also focuses on the falling west face impacting WTC 3, the Marriott Hotel (which didn't completely collapse until WTC 1 crushed it).

First aired at 10:26 am on CBS. To see it with candid audio, download the "RawNewsFeed.flv" now (seen above, also YouTube 1). See additional footage on the original file of WABC from very nearby. See also below, TV amateur Don Callopy for FOX.

HQ untelevised amateur "Anonymous from Veoh" (see below) also focuses on the falling west face impacting WTC 3, the Marriott Hotel (which didn't completely collapse until WTC 1 crushed it).

Jack Taliercio, cameraman. He and his fellow camera operators at WNYW FOX5 won an Emmy Award in 2003 for "coverage of an instant breaking news story." The winning compilation they put together (he, David Corporon, and Keith Lane) was called "Capturing 9/11." It is nowhere to be found. Could this contain the mysterious missing video from 9:37 AM mentioned above? (Find some 9/11 video on the myfoxny.com website, at least. Including this shot by Taliercio.)

This insane closeup is one of few angles to catch the dust jet, N side and center on the lower floors (See also TV amateur Alvarado). Another feature of the collapse highlighed by this angle is the symmetrical, timed nature of the tower's destruction-- before the supposedly crushing top portion had fallen that far. Taliercio runs for his life from the plume of extraordinarily dense dust. In the street he passes another cameraman (Dave Corporon, see National Geographic's "Inside 9/11") whose amazing footage of the expanding cloud was also seen on FOX5. "Look out behind you," he says to the transfixed Corporon, running past. Both would survive. (As a matter of fact, the only journalist to perish would be Bill Biggart, photographer.)

The camera was very close to televised amateur Evan Fairbanks. See below.

As seen from the Empire State Building... called Metrocam by the news presenters. Watch the building core fall apart in longer versions. Closer views of the core are seen in the amateur "Alvarado-like" shot, the Architects' shot, Tinacart and Meridianmulti... (add more). The Aman Zafar photo sequence comes to mind (www.amanzafar.com has 50 HI RES photos and takes a while to load, so here is the one of the core).

This camera was shared by WABC and WNYW from the start of the day's coverage, but WB11 aired the 2nd plane impact from this angle LIVE. WPIX replayed this South Tower "collapse" over and over. WABC NY local Channel 7 aired the first half second of the "collapse" LIVE from this angle. WPIX-TV (WB11) aired this angle live for a moment during the last seconds. Side note: See the new WPIX 9/11 memorial page now.

YougeneDebs used trig to discover the WB11 view "seems to be on the western half of the ESB at about the 88th storey. Notice the Staten Island shore line and structures there behind One Liberty Plaza, the old U.S. Steel building, the black building just to the left of center-frame for an estimate of the height of the perspective."

•     AMATEURS IN THE TV ARCHIVE, INCLUDING ALL 2001 TV     •

Found in extended length with the name WTC2_Cazzaniga.mp4," the name and video matches clips seen in HBO's "In Memoriam," which titled each bit of video used. Compare to Alfie Alvarado's shot, also from Park Row. Cazzaniga's camera is about 30 feet to the right! PLUS, this isn't to be confused with another similar, closer shot. See above, CNN's Brian Kiederling, who was aired very rarely.

One split version comes from "New York: The Center of the World" (PBS, 2003). See it also on CNN at 4:23 pm, in extended length. Additional clips from HBO's 2002 "In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01" show pre-collapse shots of the molten corner and falling yellow-orange metal (vrt 0:15:49).

Watch at the TV archive site, where the police officer says, "the explosion blew and then it knocked everybody over." Yes, at ground level. Hear the Ron DiFrancesco story about the fireball that burned more than half his body. Another important witness is NYPD officer Sam Esposito, who was injured in a lower level explosion... and who saw the fireball.

This shot also appeared in the 2002 UK documentary "A Tale of Two Towers." Download mpeg2 (5.7MB) cut from the 1GB mpeg2 archive file. Note that 6:34 pm on 9/11 wasn't the only airing. See also (partial) airings 9/11 at 6:31 pm & 9/12 at 11:09 pm, for example.

Note that Naudet did not shoot the footage. Link 2 above is from the "9/11" documentary, but Jules was in WTC 1 and Gedeon was at the firehouse. Actor/producer/firefighter James Hanlon had the day off. See the Naudet footage from inside WTC1 now... including this unknown outside clip and a high quality CBS Chopper2 as seen LIVE.

Thanks, 911allcausticcamera for showing me this one (video link 1 above) -- and several others. Now there are 71 in the list!

South Tower demolition aired 9/13 -- see it in the TV archive now, also repeat airings at 9:24 and 9:30. A telephoto lens zoomed on the NE corner detonation and other flashes that may be reflections from glass -- or NOT. Download HD avi now.

Other angles of the apparent demolition flash in the NE corner above the plane engine exit hole: CameraPlanet "Spiegel" Brooklyn Angle, History Channel like NBC 3 w/ Woolworth Bldg., and others. Should there be more? Was there video photoshopping done to some videos before broadcast, to cover up this anomaly? Maybe the flash from inside only reached certain perspectives, considering the fact that the 18.5-inch windows were set back from the outside edge of the exterior wall by 10 inches. (Learn more about the windows and lack of glass in the rubble pile... and the plentitude of pulverized glass in the omnipresent dust.)

Aired with 2nd plane impact during his interview on 9/12 at 11:50 am (YouTube 1 above). Partial view aired at 9:20 pm on 9/11. A better view - without the "Attack on America" banner graphic - can be seen 9/13 at 2:00 am. (Other airings?) This view resembles the 3rd NBC network view and the History amateur view. It's more N than History, less so than NBC's camera.

Out of the many CameraPlanet files showing the WTC "collapses," few have been matched with a person's name. One person is Lucia Davis, who happens to have filmed the controversial explosion audio near WTC 7... around 10:15 am (see details). She nearly missed the South Tower demolition. Only the last seconds of the event are seen, from a distance. Soon she would be in the thick of it. Here is her North Tower footage, seen from behind WTC7.

Not much is to be said of the video showing the collapse. The dust cloud itself, on the other hand, provides one of the proofs for explosive demolition.

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth lists this Twin Towers demolition feature with a link to Jim Hoffman's introduction to his important study titled "Vast Volumes of Dust: Dust From Collapses Expanded to Many Times The Towers' Volumes." Although the related paper focuses on the North Tower, it applies in all 3 WTC "collapses."

Evan Fairbanks appeared on primetime TV the night of 9/11 (footage aired at 10:40 pm) after having spoken with ABC anchor Peter Jennings earlier around 5:00 pm-- the first airing of his famous plane impact footage, and South Tower "reverse mushroom cloud."

Evan said the FBI made him a copy of his tape that morning. It's uncertain whether the lack of audio in the footage is due to operator error - as Fairbanks says in a phone interview by Jeff Hill - or if the FBI dubbing removed the audio:

"'And it was only after the first tower collapsed and FBI agents conducted me to a safe place, that I stopped shooting. When I told them what I had on videotaped, they brought me to their command center. They have the original, which has five minutes of audio. This is a copy. Sorry there's no sound.'" - Fairbanks quote from Linda Linguvic, Greenwich Village Gazette

Funny, when Evan's clip was used by the feds in the U.S. vs. Moussaoui "20th hijacker" case, not only was the video silent... it was black and white!

Ron DiFrancesco told an important story during this "collapse" video on ABC. More than half of his body was burned by the fireball at street level during the WTC 2 demolition. Airdate: unknown. Ask master archivist Gideon52480, who provided the clip to YouTube. Another important witness is NYPD officer Sam Esposito, who was injured in a lower level explosion... and who saw the fireball.

Not much is known about the video of the South Tower imploding. Other airings haven't been noted. High quality is so far unavailable.

Note that the "Gamma Press" title was left on the collapse footage long after an airing of the Naudet 1st plane impact. The demolition clip is probably not Gamma Press, although a few of the airplane videos were.

Seen (for example) on NBC 9/12 at 9:50 pm. Uploaded to the web by YouTuber 11sjg11 (website www.sumnerjulesglimcher.com). Shot from Bleecker St at Laguardia Place (noted during the video). This best-quality version came from the videographer himself, although a brief clip appeared in National Geographic's 2006 "Inside 9/11." Also of interest is the use of only the audio by the editors of "On Native Soil." Artistic license.

"More explosions. Huge explosions," he says. The word "explosion" seemed like the best word to describe what happened to the tower(s), but that alone isn't proof of a conspiracy, of course. But when enough people describe the explosions in more detail, though.... See films like "9/11 Revisited" or just visit the 911conspiracy.tv video collection.

Update: Aired on the CBS Early Show at unknown time/date (link 1 above). As the alternate version plays from what appears to be a VCR dub, an eyewitness on the Early Show describes the explosions he heard while escaping (link 2 above). The name for this one comes from 911allcausticcamera, who found in his archive a better version than one seen in a compilation titled "9/11: Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings!" -- which is a preview or trailer for an excellent, thorough video by "Lucus" titled "The Ultimate Con."

Update: Xenomorph911WTC has uploaded a rare segment of CBS coverage featuring the full length footage in good quality (see also YouTube link 1 above). The angle's name comes from the YouTube channel "tinacart," which features the plane impact footage (and 2 other 9/11 plane clips including "Tinacart 2" and Devin_Clark (see above). Aired at exactly 7:00 pm on 9/11 CBS. This particular version cuts off before the building core is seen falling to pieces. See another partial version in RTL's Die Letzten Minuten Im World Trade Center.

Some versions continue... and show a particularly interesting smoke cloud rising to the left of the WTC, near the edge of the frame. Follow the investigation into this anomaly... which was aired at about 5:30 pm - but not on CBS9 Washington (the TV archive). "Tinacart" filmed from 65 S 11th St, Williamsburg, according to researcher YougeneDebs.

•     AMATEURS NOT IN THE TV ARCHIVE     •
Assumed to be amateurs. For the purposes of this list, the "TV archive" will include any 2001 TV.

This footage has appeared in HBO's "In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01" (HBO, 2002) and "102 Minutes that Changed America" (THC, 2008), among others (?).

Molten metal drips in clear view, with white smoke like in a thermite reaction. See a metal drip video compilation with several camera angles by Xenomorph911WTC). An explosive dust jet is seen in a few frames (image at left), on the north face of WTC 2 about 40 stories below the crush point. Watch a HQ slow motion focus on the dust jet by Femr2. See also Network View "WNYW FOX5 Below, East" for a good look at the explosive squib. ANOTHER interesting thing about this video is the straight view of the corner knuckle at initiation. Compare with an NBC view. Was the obvious flash in the "Spiegel" view photoshopped in other (televised) videos?

Alvarado's location was Park Row at Beekman Street. (Thanks, YougeneDebs)

Used in: 1. "Why the Towers Fell" by PBS-NOVA, 2002 (which says architects filmed it) and 2. U.S. vs. Moussaoui trial exhibit P200015. (YouTube links above)

Other shots of the core are listed under number 25, the WPIX Empire State Building shot. Bonus photos: hereisnewyork.org 5712 and 5711.

One version uploaded by Barrilá aka inoutcut titled "9-11 TWIN TOWERS Original Video and Sound ANDRES BARRILA" (YouTube 1 above - low resolution), another titled "9/11 HQ 'TWIN TOWERS ANDRES BARRILA'.FROM THOMPSON & WATTS ST" (link 2 above, with another identical version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHOolP5p1Q by his other account barrila9112001, but titled en Espanol.) Version 3 by Barrilá is in slow motion. Thanks, Andrés!

ABOUT THIS LIST: The CameraPlanet Archive has collected 500 or so hours of 9/11 footage (says NY Times), but the Archive does not necessarily own the rights to all of it. A few of the camera angles titled "CameraPlanet..." below have been matched with a videographer's name. Most have appeared in televised documentaries and on DVDs. Still, the videos will appear in this list alphabetically under "C," to provide a consolidated collection of South Tower "collapse" videos from "the Archive." Note that TV amateur Sumner Jules Glimcher also appears in the CameraPlanet archive, but NBC quality sets it apart.

Criticism aside (below, really), thanks are in order to CameraPlanet for their valuable work. THANKS!

Shot from an East Village apartment. Cynthia's artistic WTC photos poster gives a beautiful, extended time lapse of the World Trade Center's life and disappearance. The South Tower collapse images only appear in the above-linked YouTube/CameraPlanet clip, although National Geographic (and CameraPlanet) featured her footage of the North Tower destruction in the bonus program "Witness 9/11," in the DVD documentary set titled "Inside 9/11" (2006). Cynthia nearly captured the 2nd plane impact on film, but was setting up her tripod.

Shot from Church and Franklin. One of many videos shot from Church Street, but one of few to capture the South Tower's east side falling (into a million pieces) in detail. This view is very similar to Bruno Levy's.

One example of high quality documentary usage: the clip appeared in "On Native Soil" (911Report LLC, 2005). Find the clip in HQ mpeg2 for download here.

Titled "First tower collapse view from 6th avenue" by the CameraPlanetArchive YouTube user, when the shot's point of perspective is West Broadway and Spring St (according to researcher YougeneDebs).

One high quality airing was in New York: The Center of the World (PBS, 2003) ...from 0:11 to 0:18 only. It is best seen in the National Geographic "Inside 9/11" South Tower sequence.

Pollard's shot was featured in the drama-mentry "Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story" (2003) and in the 2002 CameraPlanet film "7 Days in September," by Steven Rosenbaum. Hence, the video is on YouTube channel CameraPlanetArchive (1,599 videos - many less than 10 seconds long). For CameraPlanet's collections of short, over-compressed, and disorganized 9/11 video clips, also visit thecameraplanetarchive.magnify.net, sept11.magnify.net or video.google.com/911anniversary.html. "7 Days" is no longer on Google video in full length.

"So many dead people," one guy says. That is a chilling truth, hard to remember after studying these videos and picking through the details of the engineered collapse. The South Tower demolition was the most murderous event that day. God damn the conspirators.

YouTube user CameraPlanetArchive uploaded the "full" version (2:49 long) on April 05, 2006 (also on Google video). An edited version appeared September 10, 2007-- though it didn't replace the older one. It just didn't show the molten metal at the beginning and the last minute of aftermath (black birds flying in and out of the dust cloud).

See the molten metal drip stabilized (and/or the collapse itself using VirtualDub deshaker filter). See the dripping from another angle in better quality (Alfie Alvarado on History Channel). Investigate yourself theories on the orange-yellow material's composition with a look at 1.) NIST faq no. 11, 2.) Dr. Frank Greening's paper, 3.) the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) theory about the lead batteries known to exist on floor 81... which leads to 4.) the possibility of dislodged thermite - superthermite or nanothermite - from when the plane hit, melting structural steel where the building first failed. WHATEVER your opinion on this pre-collapse event, it is undeniable that molten steel was recovered from Ground Zero. And burning jet fuel doesn't melt steel any more than office fires do.

Incorrectly titled by CameraPlanetArchive YouTube poster: "Shot from across hudson of South tower collapsing." The Hudson River is to the west of the WTC complex, not the northeast. One more example of CameraPlanet quality (sarcasm).

Televised in HBO's "In Memoriam..." for a moment. Best version in Nat'l Geographic's "Inside 9/11" DVD bonus program "Witness 9/11." Notice that when Nat'l Geog. used the shot in their documentary - not the bonus program - the first seconds with the explosive flash on the NE corner were edited out. Perhaps this is why the clip has been televised rarely. (See also NBC View 3 for more on that.)

Airplane video collectors named the shot "Spiegel" for the 2nd airplane impact video from this angle. Spiegel TV aired "Why the Towers Fell" (2002) by PBS/NOVA/BBC. The European version of the program differed somewhat... noticable in the Architects' shot listed above. Check out the freeze-frame on the WTC core and the glass-like graphic overlay. Compare with the American version on NOVA. But that's a different video.

Regarding camera location: "Park Tower (the building's name), One Plaza Street, Brooklyn, NY - 53.34 meters tall, 16 floors, 120-foot ground elevation, 40 deg 40 min 31.00 sec N, 73 deg 58 min 17.67 sec W" (Thanks YougeneDebs)  TOP

Footage before the collapse from this Jersey angle was included in "7 Days in September" (2002) with narration by Rob Santana, likely the videographer. The collapse footage was found in a compilation sample reel titled "collapse of south tower.mov -- download now. The latest sample reel is less specialized. It's an all-events-in-one production, complete with the distracting timer and CameraPlanet logo, which is now centered higher... to the increased detriment of the footage, of course.

Originally found on Devin's website bodyatomic.com— see archived videos page, where his 8 minute "What I Saw From My Window" is NOT available. (download .mov here) Devin's video is also "United Airlines Flight 175 Witness Reactions III" on the tinacart YouTube channel.

His location: 1 Penn Plaza, close to CNN.

A similar (same?) angle to the "Columbine" 2nd plane impact video. To license footage, visit http://stock.mrfootage.com - ID: 256807 -- also bestshotfootage.com (lost link) To see in high quality, watch "World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" (THC, 2002). Right click to download huffyuv encoded avi.

Titled "9.11 World Trade Center view from Thompson Street in NYC" -- uploaded by 'ilsefernandez' September 20, 2007 with 'more info' that reads, "9.11 view of the towers from thompson street right before they fall." The shot quickly zooms out to a wide shot with little detail of the event... and then back in for the last seconds. Ilse's video also captured the North Tower "collapse."

Rare clip from a compilation collection by Xenomorph911WTC. A similar view comes from Gary Pollard, of CameraPlanet fame. His view is closer and available in better quality.

Shot from North End Ave at Park Place W beside World Financial Center Plaza. Artistic slow motion and editing both add and subtract from the value of the short documentary. Strangely, the video doesn't appear on the francotibe channel... not that it's a conspiracy, of course. Some nuance of Toob I haven't discovered yet.

Update: The last seconds of the collapse are found in "World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" (THC, 2002) at 00:07:02 and again, longer, at 01:23:38. In full length it's apparently only found at the Getty Images archive films website. See if you can find it in any of the 30 mainstream documentaries collected here. It's a balanced and stable shot, too. Amazingly neglected by filmmakers and TV producers.

Update Feb. 19, 2010: An extended amateur-style version has been (re)discovered. Otherwise, it can only (?) be seen in the 2002 THC documentary "World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" at vrt 00:06:46. The angle is to the west of the NBC view 3, with the Woolworth Building at center. Here the pointy tip is visible at left.

As the "collapse" initiates, watch the flash in the NE corner about 15 stories (?) above the plane engine's exit hole. The top section of the tower soon begins to crumble at that explosion point-- revealing part of the effort to prevent the top of the building from crashing by itself into the street.

Stock footage, last seconds of a rare collapse clip, unknown and unavailable in full length apparently. See it in at least one documentary (link 1 and 2 above). Link 3 is from the itnsource website September 11 collection.

Handheld wide to medium shot. Uploaded to YouTube November 01, 2008 by chlarkfan73. Original title: "WTC 9.11 (Jersey City, NJ view)." Link 2 above is just a mirror by 911allcausticcamera.

Other Jersey views include Hoboken by Siegel (non-televised), Meridianmulti (non-TV), and CameraPlanet - Jersey Long Shot.

Videographer named in the HBO special "In Memoriam." The debris avalanche on the east side of WTC 2 can also be seen in this clip that features the Levy closeup for comparison. Slow motion detail of the smithereens.

Levy stood at the SE corner of Church and Chambers St, says perspectivist YougeneDebs.

Usually seen as a 29-second clip showing the rarely-seen south side of the South Tower. Link 3 above runs 6:32, but the music used in the upload got the audio track censored. (See also SW Closest, Below amateur, NY1 LIVE and CBS Chopper2 LIVE.) Like millions of people, Brandon said, "Oh my God!" and "Holy Shit!" If only his video were available in better quality, we could feel his shock more acutely.

The videographer has expressed his unwillingness to create an unedited version of his video, which is a shame because bold text (with the incorrect time) is emblazoned on the screen AND the descent is edited, clipped in the middle! This prevents a timing (or simple viewing) of the core collapse, which is rarely seen. Similar images were taken by still photographer Aman Zafar (image - diagram) from across the Hudson. Of course Zafar's images are far superior. Other core shots include the Architects' amateur shot, TV amateur Tinacart 1, the WPIX Empire State Bldg. network shot, CBS Chopper2 (sort of), and (?). Also see hereisnewyork.org number 5712, 5711, and 5709. Discussion and investigation at the911forum.freeforums.org/wtc-2-core-remnant-motion....

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101manhattan-large.html. Naka Nathaniel plane impact edited out for YouTube clip linked above. South Tower demolition view from across East River. (See similar "East View" above.) North Tower seen from distance through telephoto lens.

Uploaded to YouTube September 08, 2009 by nickporjr. Titled "out my window in brooklyn 9/11." Mirrored and brought to my attention by 911allcausticcamera, archivist and collector of rare 9/11 video.

Uploaded to YouTube November 07, 2008 by penttbom.com YouTuber bronco2121, who received 10 DVDs from the FBI on November 3rd, 2008. See penttbom.com for the story on Scott Bingham's FOIA request for 9/11 material. (No relation to Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham, as far as I know.) Scott operates the website flight77.info, which tells more of the quest for the missing Pentagon plane impact videos.

His shot of the South Tower only shows the north facade tilt out of the picture, but the shake afterwards tells a good story. (Note that the Sauret North Tower footage features the earth shaking ~10 seconds BEFORE the "collapse.") The acclaimed Sauret documentary is titled "WTC: The First 24 Hours. Scenes from the film were featured in the famous Naudet documentary "9/11," among many others. The footage of Ground Zero, empty and quiet, is particularly striking. The DVD is really 2 films, one artistically short and one extended.

Copyright 2001 by sceenz.com. Titled "Unseen Footage from September 11th 2001. Ground Zero" as uploaded 9/19/2006 by YouTube user PA7. A pretty rare shot, but of poor quality, unfortunately. Another low res version from CNYCLIVE.com is also online (link 2 above).

See www.911eyewitness.com. The audio is in question due to deep explosion sounds, as analyzed by www.mediumrecords.com/wtc/audio02.html (where you can download the Siegel clip). Research and discussion here. Quoting the audio engineer at mediumrecords.com:

The dramatic nature of the blast sounds which occur in the 4 minutes prior to the collapse certainly raises some puzzling questions. Since other long stretches of unedited pre-collapse footage (with audio) from other angles has not yet been made public, it is not possible for us to hear if other recordings also caught these blasts. In other recordings from closer to the tower, though only short snippets are available, we don't see much of any indication that intense explosions have be registered [sic] by any people in the area.

Certainly this webpage can help address the question of existing video with audio in the minutes before the first "collapse." See also this website's extensive 9/11 TV archive. Why is the video record near the towers so slim during this time period?

Obvious squibs/dust jets from lower floors. Loud explosions in some versions (not Channel 5 version, link 3 above). Audio track likely tampered with by Discovery, RTL (and France2) to enhance their docudrama pictures "Inside the Twin Towers" (aired 9/3/2006 - see full doc.) and "Die Letzten Minuten Im World Trade Center" (2006), respectively. Download RTL avi now or watch HQ YouTube clip. Download Discovery avi now or watch YouTube clip. This same explosive version appeared on France Ch. 2. Download avi (unknown program) or watch on YouTube.

Alternatively, see the Ch. 5 version (unknown source program) for a more believable audio. Download mpeg1. This audio track, like the Siegel audio (above) is analyzed at mediumrecords.com.

TV1 is German. The program is unknown. The clip is short, but high quality with a good look at the molten orange crushed from the NE corner where the plane engine exited.

This tight view of the full facade allows for a measurement of the rotation of the top portion, in order to calculate the point of axis within the twisting core. See one such study by Achimspok.

Xenomorph911WTC uploaded this with the title "9/11: Anonymous new release of 3 WTC collapse videos," on December 06, 2008... a month and a week after the videos (not including the South Tower clip) appeared on veoh.com. From Xeno's more info (and similarly at 911blogger.com), we read:

An anonymous source has allowed the release of high quality DVD footage of all 3 WTC collapses. The North & South Tower & building 7. The photographer wishes to remain anonymous and audio has not been given permission for public release, but you can download the files here without sound, in high quality DVD format cut from the source video at the following links. South Tower: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=67PMXROL North Tower http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YS0XHA8B Building 7: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EKPQ0VXM

Alternately, I've made a high quality DivX compilation of all 3 clips, you can download that here if you wish: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LSO4XYAZ (End quote. Thanks, Xeno)