Aired 9/12 at 4:00 am. Only the end portion 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 (link 4 above). 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. (in HD at link 4 above)
Oddly on the ImageSource site (and on 2 FOX airings) it says, “Source:WABC.” That, I believe, 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 camera was positioned on CNN’s building!
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In documentaries, I’ve only found the clip once in German, which is still incomplete. An intensive search of the TV archive has returned few airings. That is not to say a conspiracy is involved in this particular bit of footage. There was a lot of video shot that day. Some landed on the cutting room floor, so to speak. But THIS?
The NIST Cumulus folder “CNN NIST Dub #17 – RoofCam” contains much of this footage, but up to just before the “collapse.” For that, find clip “CNN Dub5 08.avi” — watch at link 5 above. See also release 10, CNN folder, file ending 25 for a longer version.
