[political-research] Re: [catapult] 500 hours of 9/11 amatuer film - includes shots of

The number of cartoons of perported 175 seems to have stabilized at
around 30.
Some of these are really the same "scene" from closer angles.
The WESCAM camera system is known for this capability.
http://911closeup.com/nico
http://911tvfakery.blogspot.com/
http://covertoperations.blogspot.com/2006/05/arguing-no-planes.html
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> The 500 Hours of 9/11
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> A vast archive of images from the Sept. 11 attack and its aftermath,
> assembled by Steven Rosenbaum, a Manhattan producer of documentaries,
> can be sampled on the Internet at www.911archive.net/Google. The
> future of the collection is uncertain.
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> By GLENN COLLINS
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> Published: May 30, 2006
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> A brown fedora rests abandoned in ground zero dust: owner's fate,
> unknown. In images shot from space, a plume of smoke rises miles above
> the World Trade Center. Two workers cling to a scaffold that dangles
> from an office building beneath the inferno. A handheld video camera,
> pointing at a north tower in flames, shakily veers to show the second
> hijacked jet striking the other tower.
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> Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder, his business partner and wife, at
> their Manhattan office last month. They hope to find a permanent
> repository for their archive.
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> Those images, captured largely by amateurs, are moments from more than
> 500 hours of videos and films, the largest collection of raw visual
> data from what historians say is the best-documented catastrophe in
> history. About 1,700 clips from the collection have attracted more
> than a million hits in the three months since they were put on Google
> Video.
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> The 7,000-gigabyte archive was assembled by Steven Rosenbaum, a
> Manhattan-based documentary producer. In the days after the terrorist
> attacks, he put up posters and fliers and placed an ad in The Village
> Voice urgently requesting images that captured the attack, its
> aftermath and the mood of the city.
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> Now his collection is the largest asset of his dormant television
> production company, CameraPlanet, and Mr. Rosenbaum is working out an
> agreement with the Bank of America, the company's primary lender. He
> wants to structure a deal with a donor, buyer or partner that would
> keep the collection from being sold piecemeal, would repay the
> company's debt of more than $500,000 and would make the videos
> available to researchers, filmmakers and the public.
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> As the fifth anniversary of the attack approaches, Mr. Rosenbaum is
> hardly alone among 9/11 collectors in struggling with financing, and
> with the need to find a permanent home for a repository and provide
> greater access to it.
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> Beyond at least 260 major private and institutional collections, an
> estimated 100,000 people have squirreled away 9/11 materials. They
> range from video and document collections to flags, badges, roadside
> shrines, electronic archives of trade center blogs and even
> compilations of conspiracy theory materials.
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> As yet, the logical repository for ground zero materials, the planned
> World Trade Center memorial and museum, has no place to store them,
> and it faces a budgetary and leadership crisis as well.
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> Beyond that, seeming to profit from 9/11 is still taboo. David N.
> Redden, a vice chairman of Sotheby's in Manhattan, said his auction
> house has not been offered Sept. 11 collections to sell.
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> "Things from that day should be unsalable," he said, "and anything
> that is ghoulish is beyond the pale."
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> Among all the archives, Mr. Rosenbaum's video collection may be unique
> in that it can be sampled by anyone with access to the Web, at
> www.911archive.net/Google <http://www.911archive.net/Google>.
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> It is "an extraordinary compilation of perspectives, a very important
> archive to keep together," said Jan Seidler Ramirez, chief curator of
> the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
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> Mr. Rosenbaum, 42, said that two appraisers had valued his archive in
> excess of $1 million.
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> "This collection is about five years of my life," Mr. Rosenbaum said.
> "It's not about money. We don't have the resources to make it
> available to researchers and other documentarians, and we are very
> selective in giving approval to use our video."
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> Mr. Rosenbaum's Google video clips are low-resolution teasers of
> longer sequences, and some have been encoded so that they cannot be
> downloaded, allowing Mr. Rosenbaum alone to approve uses of the full
> high-resolution images.
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> Seventy-six people contributed to the collection, which is owned by
> Mr. Rosenbaum and his business partner and wife, Pamela Yoder.
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> The archive's value is greatly enhanced, they say, by videotaped
> interviews with those who provided their pictures, "because in 40
> years everyone who shot this video will be gone, and we think the
> circumstances are as important as the videos," Ms. Yoder said.
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> A few of the clips have been used in documentaries, including a film
> produced and directed by Mr. Rosenbaum, "Seven Days in September." In
> a review in 2002, A. O. Scott of The New York Times called it "an
> almost unbearably powerful documentary."
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> When another director of documentaries, Ric Burns, made a film about
> the trade center, he was also allowed to use some of Mr. Rosenbaum's
> images.
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> Archives like this, Mr. Burns said, are tremendous assets.
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