http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2063247
found this on another forum.....and copied the post.
It's a home movie shot from somone's 36th floor condo 500 yards north of the WTC (along the Hudson River). Apparantly they just released it. You can't see the planes hit or anything but you hear the people go from amazement to horror as everything progressives. I found it a little hard to watch but amazing. You really get a good perspective on how huge those buildings were.
http://www.revver.com/view.php?id=59686
edit: thanks to 22WRM for upping this elsewhere
Rapidshare link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/32971553...wesaw2.mov.html
edit2: took down the google video link, the owner only wanted it on revver due to licensing terms
automated email response from the people who shot the video (thanks Sokurai):
quote:
We'd like to thank the large number of people who've written us to
offer encouragement and support. Your kind words have let us know
that we made the right choice in releasing this video. Because we
can't respond individually we've compiled a FAQ to answer common
questions:
Q. Why did you choose to release the video now?
A. We have wanted to release the video for some time, but had not
found the appropriate venue. We offered it to a local public
television station, but they did not respond.
Q. Why did you release the video on Revver?
A. We chose to release the video on Revver because of its
author-friendly licensing terms and support for the Creative Commons.
Revver is currently the only authorized commercial distribution
channel for this video. Copies on Google Video, YouTube and other
video sharing services are unauthorized and we will ask for their
removal. While we like and use those services for some content, we do
not agree with their licensing terms for this video.
Q. Are you going to make money from this video through Revver?
A. No. We will donate any proceeds from Revver's ad-sharing
arrangement for this video to a children's charity.
Q. Isn't this video missing important scenes?
A. We did not capture the impact of either plane or the start of
either building's collapse. As many have surmised, the impacts of the
airplanes and collapses of both buildings did catch us by surprise.
Q. Why did you edit this video?
A. The version we released on 9-11-2006 was intentionally and
obviously (using dissolves) edited for length and size only. About 10
minutes of mostly redundant video was removed. None of the media
services could host the unedited file at sufficiently high resolution.
Q. Will you release the unedited version?
A. Because of interest in this video, we intend to make the unedited
version available via bittorrent (Revver has offered to seed the
torrent). This will take several days due to the size of the file.
Please do not request a copy of the original file.
Q. Does Bri believe she saw a military plane?
A. Bri's comment regarding the "military" plane was due to her seeing
a silhouette of the plane and therefore assuming black coloration. Her
initial thought was that the plane was approaching the south tower to
help fight the fire. There is nothing in our recollection to suggest
that events of the day occurred in any way other than seen on the
video.
Q. Are those UFOs in frame xxx?
A. Compression of the video for display on the web has distorted some
objects, which include helicopters, birds, a fighter jet passing
overhead (after the second plane hit the south tower), and glare from
a window.
Q. What is the music in the background?
A. The lullabies playing in the background at the start of the video
are from a CD we would play to calm our daughter. The CD plays
lullabies slowly and includes a background heartbeat. This music was
not added to the video at a later date. We have been unable to listen
to that CD since.
Q. Was your daughter in day care at the WTC? Is she OK?
A. Our daughter was scheduled to start day care in the North Tower the
following week. It is our understanding that all children in that day
care were evacuated successfully. We were displaced from our apartment
for about a month and continued to live in the area for a year. She
did develop asthmatic symptoms which may have been due to the
lingering dust. These symptoms cleared up when we moved to a
different part of Manhattan.
Q. Who shot the video?
A. Video was shot by Bri and Bob on a Sony DCR-TRV11 Camcorder. A few
days after the tape was shot, we transferred the video to DVD using
Apple iMovie and iDVD. The tape and DVD have never left our
possession. The released video was transcoded from the DVD. The
unedited version was re-transferred from the original tape.
Q. Have you been contacted by the authorities regarding this video?
A. No.
found this on another forum.....and copied the post.
It's a home movie shot from somone's 36th floor condo 500 yards north of the WTC (along the Hudson River). Apparantly they just released it. You can't see the planes hit or anything but you hear the people go from amazement to horror as everything progressives. I found it a little hard to watch but amazing. You really get a good perspective on how huge those buildings were.
http://www.revver.com/view.php?id=59686
edit: thanks to 22WRM for upping this elsewhere
Rapidshare link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/32971553...wesaw2.mov.html
edit2: took down the google video link, the owner only wanted it on revver due to licensing terms
automated email response from the people who shot the video (thanks Sokurai):
quote:
We'd like to thank the large number of people who've written us to
offer encouragement and support. Your kind words have let us know
that we made the right choice in releasing this video. Because we
can't respond individually we've compiled a FAQ to answer common
questions:
Q. Why did you choose to release the video now?
A. We have wanted to release the video for some time, but had not
found the appropriate venue. We offered it to a local public
television station, but they did not respond.
Q. Why did you release the video on Revver?
A. We chose to release the video on Revver because of its
author-friendly licensing terms and support for the Creative Commons.
Revver is currently the only authorized commercial distribution
channel for this video. Copies on Google Video, YouTube and other
video sharing services are unauthorized and we will ask for their
removal. While we like and use those services for some content, we do
not agree with their licensing terms for this video.
Q. Are you going to make money from this video through Revver?
A. No. We will donate any proceeds from Revver's ad-sharing
arrangement for this video to a children's charity.
Q. Isn't this video missing important scenes?
A. We did not capture the impact of either plane or the start of
either building's collapse. As many have surmised, the impacts of the
airplanes and collapses of both buildings did catch us by surprise.
Q. Why did you edit this video?
A. The version we released on 9-11-2006 was intentionally and
obviously (using dissolves) edited for length and size only. About 10
minutes of mostly redundant video was removed. None of the media
services could host the unedited file at sufficiently high resolution.
Q. Will you release the unedited version?
A. Because of interest in this video, we intend to make the unedited
version available via bittorrent (Revver has offered to seed the
torrent). This will take several days due to the size of the file.
Please do not request a copy of the original file.
Q. Does Bri believe she saw a military plane?
A. Bri's comment regarding the "military" plane was due to her seeing
a silhouette of the plane and therefore assuming black coloration. Her
initial thought was that the plane was approaching the south tower to
help fight the fire. There is nothing in our recollection to suggest
that events of the day occurred in any way other than seen on the
video.
Q. Are those UFOs in frame xxx?
A. Compression of the video for display on the web has distorted some
objects, which include helicopters, birds, a fighter jet passing
overhead (after the second plane hit the south tower), and glare from
a window.
Q. What is the music in the background?
A. The lullabies playing in the background at the start of the video
are from a CD we would play to calm our daughter. The CD plays
lullabies slowly and includes a background heartbeat. This music was
not added to the video at a later date. We have been unable to listen
to that CD since.
Q. Was your daughter in day care at the WTC? Is she OK?
A. Our daughter was scheduled to start day care in the North Tower the
following week. It is our understanding that all children in that day
care were evacuated successfully. We were displaced from our apartment
for about a month and continued to live in the area for a year. She
did develop asthmatic symptoms which may have been due to the
lingering dust. These symptoms cleared up when we moved to a
different part of Manhattan.
Q. Who shot the video?
A. Video was shot by Bri and Bob on a Sony DCR-TRV11 Camcorder. A few
days after the tape was shot, we transferred the video to DVD using
Apple iMovie and iDVD. The tape and DVD have never left our
possession. The released video was transcoded from the DVD. The
unedited version was re-transferred from the original tape.
Q. Have you been contacted by the authorities regarding this video?
A. No.
