Sources are few. One is the lengthy “September 11th” – uploaded to YouTube Oct. 1, 2007 by talkingdoggirl. It can be found as an identical low res .mov file at digitalmartin.com, apparently the owner of the YouTube channel. The video features 2 (or more) videographers in Manhattan, the second being a distant Noah Klersfeld, who is named at the end. Cut from the video, you will notice in all versions, is some of the collapse. This longest version of the footage has the least amount of collapse time.
Secondly there’s “102 Minutes that Changed America” (History/A&E, 2008). See some of the footage with commentary from the shooter at the History website. There you’ll find another clip that likewise cuts out most of the collapse (and another, where her name is misspelled “Alvarez”). I haven’t seen the DVD version, but I can safely guess both it and the TV version cut some time. However, the 2008 TV version of the documentary featured an interview with some of the videographers at the end, not unlike the one seen on the History website. See a 2011 airing in HD slow motion in the playlist above (or YT link 2).
Alvarado’s crowd footage appeared in PBS Frontline’s 2002 “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,” with none of the collapse. The same can be said for HBO’s “In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01” (HBO, 2002). A virtually identical perspective seen here in the documentary does seem to match the missing frames in History’s version.
UPDATE March 2012 — this other view probably belongs to the very nearby woman with a videocamera! Perhaps THAT could be Alvarado and despite History/A&E’s assertion, this other camera belonged secondhand to Alfie? (See “HBO ‘In Memoriam’ Amateur” below.)
Molten metal drips in clear view, with white smoke like in a thermite reaction. See a metal drip video compilation with several camera angles. More rare is the capture of a lower north face squib/dust jet 40-some floors below the “crush front.” Another glimpse of it is in WNYW Jack Taliercio’s shot (and the HBO “In Memoriam” shot). ANOTHER interesting thing about this video is the straight view of the corner knuckle at initiation. Compare with an NBC view, for example. In the Alvarado shot, though, the bright flash from the corner is barely perceptible.
Alvarado’s location was Park Row at Beekman Street. (Thanks, YougeneDebs)
Alfie Alvarado
YouTube 1, 2 & 3
