BBC Footage of WTC7 Building Collapse, Sept. 11th 2001
This interesting video of BBC's 9.11 news coverage comes courtesy the fine people at archive.org.
Everyone has seen the actual collapse of both World Trade Towers 1 and 2 after the terror attacks on Sept. 11th 2001. The collapse of World Trade Center 7 building later that day however doesn't get nearly as much mention, so I thought I would share this with you.
In the footage you can watch BBC's reporter standing in front of the actual WTC7 while reporting (live) to the world that the building has collapsed.
Amazingly, the BBC claims that it has lost copies of this live on-the-scene footage from September 11th, a day which was historically one of the most important days in modern times akin to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor or the assassination of JFK.
The video can be viewed here: http://www.archive.org/details/bbc200109111654-1736
The following excerpted from the above link:
March 4, 2007 Subject: Some Background and Context for this Clip
I am Director of Collections at the Internet Archive, responsible for all video and audio files.
This video clip is part of a collection from the TV Archive of global television coverage of the events that occurred on and shortly after September 11, 2001.
This clip, among others, has drawn quite a bit of attention because it appears to show a BBC reporter in New York reporting that World Trade Center Building 7, also referred to as WTC7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, has collapsed before it actually did collapse.
Despite some confusion on the issue of time code stamping and UTC conversions to EDT, the timing on the clip appears to be correct. This particular clip was recorded between 4:54 and 5:36 PM EDT. The anchor references to the WTC7 collapsing occur at 4:58 PM and 5:01 PM and then a live reporter says the building has collapsed at 5:08 PM in what appears to be a live shot with the building still in tact behind her. The feed from the live reporter is lost at 5:15 PM and then the building does actually collapse at 5:20 PM. A subsequent clip from the BBC then shows coverage of the actual collapse in an archived account recorded from 5:36 � 6:16PM. This clip is available at http://www.archive.org/details/bbc200109111736-1818
Everyone has seen the actual collapse of both World Trade Towers 1 and 2 after the terror attacks on Sept. 11th 2001. The collapse of World Trade Center 7 building later that day however doesn't get nearly as much mention, so I thought I would share this with you.
In the footage you can watch BBC's reporter standing in front of the actual WTC7 while reporting (live) to the world that the building has collapsed.
Amazingly, the BBC claims that it has lost copies of this live on-the-scene footage from September 11th, a day which was historically one of the most important days in modern times akin to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor or the assassination of JFK.
The video can be viewed here: http://www.archive.org/details/bbc200109111654-1736
The following excerpted from the above link:
March 4, 2007 Subject: Some Background and Context for this Clip
I am Director of Collections at the Internet Archive, responsible for all video and audio files.
This video clip is part of a collection from the TV Archive of global television coverage of the events that occurred on and shortly after September 11, 2001.
This clip, among others, has drawn quite a bit of attention because it appears to show a BBC reporter in New York reporting that World Trade Center Building 7, also referred to as WTC7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, has collapsed before it actually did collapse.
Despite some confusion on the issue of time code stamping and UTC conversions to EDT, the timing on the clip appears to be correct. This particular clip was recorded between 4:54 and 5:36 PM EDT. The anchor references to the WTC7 collapsing occur at 4:58 PM and 5:01 PM and then a live reporter says the building has collapsed at 5:08 PM in what appears to be a live shot with the building still in tact behind her. The feed from the live reporter is lost at 5:15 PM and then the building does actually collapse at 5:20 PM. A subsequent clip from the BBC then shows coverage of the actual collapse in an archived account recorded from 5:36 � 6:16PM. This clip is available at http://www.archive.org/details/bbc200109111736-1818
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