The pole vaulter commercial gave chills like someone falling from tower.
Frank DeMartini is a hero. He saved countless lives going up towards the site of the crash rescuing people from offices, busting through drywall, breaking down doors, and never once thinking about his own safety, just the safety of the people he knew were trapped.
6:30 mark ” I was stunned by the size and scale of the machinery , it was comparable to that of an aircraft carrier”
The man at 5:00 is known to have helped many people escape at or right below the impact zone. They tried to send him down with others but he wanted to keep going up rescuing people. A true hero 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
They were such beautiful buildings. Beautiful in their stark simplicity.
Crazy how all the machinery, steel and literally everything was pulverized
This footage is very surreal knowing everything we see here in the interiors of the buildings were completely crushed and turned to dust.
god, each time “Missing since 9/11/01” appears it gives me fucking chills because if they were never found, it means they were obliterated completely and that’s the most haunting shit
It’s mind boggling to think that nothing of what we see in this video exists any more. It’s all gone and not all that long after filming either.
Incredible video of Two amazing towers and people talking about them literally months before they were destroyed.
Absolutely mind-blowing the origional WTC was just vast in scale it really was the economic heart of New York
Beautiful buildings. God bless to the buildings and the amazing people who worked there. You could tell the Manager loved his job and was passionate about the whole complex. The Window Cleaner gentleman seemed like a legend, he said to the cameras “I get a 30 minute break every time” 😂❤️ Also, that is such a clever way to clean those windows, that robot system was amazing 🙌
I remember going to Gandma’s house for Christmas as a child in the late sixties & passing by the WTC as it was being built. My Dad told us it was going to be the tallest building in America. I never forgot that image or that conversation!❤
Lost for 20 years today. Heres to all the people involved.
My heart goes out to all that we’re affected by the events of that horrible day. Every year for 20 years I watch history channel all day and pray for all. It’s jus my way of honoring the wonderful people lost that day
The former WTC complex was so much better in ambition, quality and as a whole than the current towers
It’s definitely a lost marble and it should still be here now
I think people forget about how beautiful they really are, obviously after what happened, the first thing you think of is 9/11 when you see them again, such a shame. I was to young to remember them but they look amazing.
If The World Trade Center were still standing, they would’ve been upgraded with modern lights and look more beautiful than the Freedom tower.
1:11 Great footage of the floor trusses attached to bare metal. The lower chords apparently had dampeners at the end to reduce the sensation of the building swaying.
That man falling at the end is a Erie resemblance of that very day 😔
At 4:55 we see Frank De Martini, who is credited with saving over 50 lives on 9/11. He died when the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 AM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_De_Martini
The window washer machine was way ahead of its time!
8:22 Roko Camaj. I remember watching a documentary that featured his son describing his zest and bright personality. He was in the south tower on 9/11 and called his wife to reassure her that he was fine. Sadly, he didn’t make it. What a life he lived among the towers. RIP Roko.
Seeing “missing since 9/11/01” pop up next to some of these people is really eerie. Knowing they had only about 8 more months of life on Earth
You did an amazing job of this i was super impressed having seen this before its like watching a new video thanks and how you do this 😊
RIP you magnificent structures. In retrospect, they are the most beautiful, imposing and powerful pair of structures one could imagine. The twin Petronas Towers come close, but the fact the WTC pair were on diagonals and embodied NY bravado makes/made them better
What an interesting video. Thank you for posting! I wish I could have seen these marvelous buildings in real life 😥
I like these videos that show the WTC as it used to be before the attacks since I never had the chance to see it with my own eyes. I went to visit NYC back in 2007 when the place was still a construction site. My heart goes out to those who lost their lives that day.
oof, that ad at 10:20 gave me chills thinking of all the people who jumped from the towers before they collapsed because they couldn’t escape.
Definitely hearing how they kept everything as safe as possible and had all its amazing services like it’s own police station and own city is crazy to know how it was going to wiped out. I never knew the scale of these buildings. It’s definitely crazy how much was in these buildings. The scale of these buildings going is unbelievable.
I produced the pole vaulter commercial (for AT&T, for 1996 Olympics) footage used late in this documentary. I recall now later helping to get the documentary maker the footage.
The towers at dusk were the most gorgeous sight
Love how dedicated foreigners are doing what ever jobs they can get.
9:17 you can the signature of the French tight rope/high wire walker Philippe Petit who crossed the towers with a wire the gap between the two towers !
Rest In Peace to the window washer in this video Roko Camaj 🕊
duuude it looks soo good. the quality is just amazing!
“It (WTC) was larger than the flight deck of an aircraft carrier” Oh my… That analogy didn’t age well.
Aww qué épocas 😍
I’ve always found it amazing how WFC 2, 3, and 4 (buildings with pyramid and dome roofs) survived the event. They’re directly across the street and the original complex buildings that survived.
For me they represent a moment in time. And a symbol of the might of America. What stands there now is just a nice building. Nothing all that special looking or impressive. Feels like a compromise. It’s almost like when the originals fell it was a defeat. They fell and so did we. And we never really got back up. It just doesn’t feel like we got back up again. Nothing compares to the original. I’m not the only one who wishes we could have brought them back better than ever.
Why isnt video these days in this framerate? It looks so fliud and great
Imagine telling the people in this video that in less than one year from when they recorded this that the entire complex would be obliterated.
Looking down from near the top is already creepy but made even more so knowing that some of the people above the impact zone were forced to leap from there. Looking up from the ground you understand where they landed. 10:22 just emphasizes my point. God that had to be beyond hellish
the twin towers were so beautiful and especially at night
🇩🇰 R.I.P 🇩🇰😩 So Beautiful buildings
My freshman year of college was 2001 and i lived a block away at Pace University’s dorm tower, what a crazy day. I miss the old buildings. The new one is an eye sore.
Whoa. That window-washing shit was pretty rad! 😳
10:06 “today the world trade center has become an icon for success” made me think they were still here for a second 😔
10:20 was a very upsetting image :/
World Trade Center was the best tower in New York there was a nice look it was a shame that the towers no longer exist always think of World Trade Center 9/11
What a shame that they are no longer there.
this breaks my heart!
I Hope Someone Would Rebuild The Tower and The Complex Again!. Such Beautiful Building😔
10:32 even though it was recorded in early 2001 the way she talks about the WTC as if they’re gone is ominous considering the fact that in 8 months they’d be gone.
It’s mental that just months after all the videos were recorded the towers were attached
It’s crazy to think about some of the people in the video are dead like when he is showing the subway
This guy narrated everything from 1900-Dirty Jobs. Lol Ok, I’m not “that guy” but the pole vaulter should have been edited out. Knowing that others had to take that decision and still leaving it is disrespectful.
I fuck with my guy Eric Darton. Good Energy.
This is some great video quality for 2002
4:03 Dude in the jacket and tie realizes he’s on camera and his fly is down.
Late 90’s/early 00’s TV was entertaining. Wtf happened?
Thanks for sharing, great video. Never forget.
I wonder how many of the people seen in this video .. the ones in the lift .. the train .. the escalator etc survived ?!
10:21 it’s so Eerie to see that guy falling
They where so bueatifull wish they where still here
Genialny dokument. Dziękuję
this is part of a WTC documentary produced in January and February 2001(before 9/11), the original documentary is about 40 to 50 min long.
What makes this footage chilling is the good quality of it. Everything looks so lifelike, like it was filmed just yesterday. Crazy stuff.
Built by ambitious, intelligent, clever heros and destroyed by pathetic, sociopathic cowards ! It 14 years to rebuild, no matter what, WTC will live on ! RIP to the 6 people who died in the 1993 bombing and to the 2,977 people who died on 9/11 !!!
very cool, thanks for uploading
0:19 they actually look like they’re reaching into the clouds!
Does anyone know why they built two towers instead of just one?
10:23 … you may call it superstitious.
The guy pole vaulting at the end is so reminding of 9/11
Who would have thought it would come down less than 8 months later with so many innocent souls. Does “missing since” mean they did not make it? 😢
After what happened, I am scared of any tall building in NYC. I would rather stay safe on the ground at least I can run away from it
bro this video looks awesome
Do you not think it odd how good quality this footage is but yet all the apparent live network footage from 11/09/2001 appeared like it was all filmed using potatoes. HD cameras existed long prior to 2001 and the news networks were using them.
Outer colums makes it clostrofobic
I can’t imagine how many of the people we see here died in the towers on 9/11
HAHAHA and it took few donkeys with no demolition experience to take it all down.
God bless the USA Never forget 🇺🇲
where can i foud the complete documentary in HD ?
They need to build a matching tower .
these people interviewed in 2001 look like from the 80s lol
Couldn’t the water thats pumped from the Hudson have been used to help put the fires out?
Porfavor que las construyan otra vez
And still they didn’t extra stuff,to escape the horror dead if your trapped🥺🥺twenty years later,you would think they invent little parachutes,ziplines,and what more
10:20 really creepy shot
10:17 My god scary to see that
How tragic. I miss the World Trade Center.
Thanks so much
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They were so over built. Incredible
10:20 way to detailed😥
What a document 20yrs on…so much lost.
1:13 “each floor, one hectar in size”. OMG this documentary is full of shit. FIY guys, 1 hectares is 100×100 meters. So tell me with a tower side of 63m and a middle area that can’t be used for offices obviously, how do you guys arrive at the conclusion 1 hectare per floor?
I know that No Chance in Hell Man
Never forget
Oh my god that pole vault ad is so uncomfortable
Would it have been possible to climb down the side of the building gripping the windows cleaning rails?
strange on the movies there destroyed? foreshadowing.
Who would think 7 month later……
10:23 The falling man…..
When these interviews were filmed I’d turned 1 around a week or so before ….. so unfortunately I’ve never known the twin towers (and the entire WTC in general) as icons of NYC but as what they are now …. appearance wise these building were much better than the current half completed complex … the south tower’s outdoor observation deck was absolutely stunning with all that open space (in my opinion better than the one in Empire State Building) … even the indoor one was more than adequate ….. as far as the North Tower goes although it didn’t have an observation deck it had something equally unique … the fabulous Windows on the world restaurant which putting it in a few words it was an absolutely stunning facility with great views and multiple venues …. much much better than the measly food section of the Freedom tower ….. in conclusion yes the original towers were much better in my opinion but for obvious reasons they couldn’t have been rebuilt… the current complex will have to do
11 minutes? That was it?!
The one world trade centre is ugly in comparison to the two towers, NY will never be the same since the loss.
One of the few American skyscrapers of the late 20th Century that was named after an “idea” as opposed to a corporation, bank, government institution or…you-know-who. I don’t think there was a whole lot of “world trade” that took place there after it was finished. The shipping broker businesses that were initially supposed to fill the building shrank considerably with the late 1960s introduction of container shipping…which more or less ended Manhattan as a port destination. Like it’s kindred tower, The Empire State Building, WTC took many years to turn a corner and rent up. It was all part of a long-view plan by Chase Manhattan Bank to “upgrade” that section of lower Manhattan — where CMB had just built their new headquarters — and keep the NYC “financial sector” in lower Manhattan. In that sense the WTC was a success.
It is a wonder if the “window washing machine” could possibly have saved some lives…
1:42 in 2001 people’s hair still looks like 90s
Yo what was wrong with Eric Darton’s hair 💀
And 9 months later…..
Narrow safety exit what we should know/ And this speach in the video is bla-bla
Trump actually favored rebuilding the original towers stronger than ever but many opposed it.
Just two very tall coffins for an awful lot of destroyed people & what about the trigger plot discovered previously, who was responsible for that ?
6:54 he looks like Frank Sinatra
That is So Sad
Where is the rest please?
jet fuel cannot melt steel beams
How many of these people died that were in this footage
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I personally think the original twin towers looked better asthetically than the new One World Trade Center.
Seeing there gone but they shall be back drops in film/TV Superman the movie & Escape from New York etc,.
10:19 nah bro 😬
Blonde guy must smoke alot.
20 years ago man
Thought the PAPD was it’s police?
11 minutes
No Gureentee For Sure He is Dead
So I guess some of these people in this documentary are dead now
Awesome enhancement
They talk of being ready for any emergency ….when the time came they where ready for none .They even tried to send people back to there offices telling them it was a false alarm.The construction was was third rate fire proofing barley done no support colloms .They even rewrote New York’s fire code just to construct it.They should never have been built.
We should have rebuilt them, but 10 stories higher
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10:19 damn, falling man ripped off this advertisment, get some original content.
It was also a hotspot for gay people. There’s a film about it
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I never thought they were very good looking buildings. Would’ve still loved to have gone though. That rooftop observation deck would’ve been awesome.
Biggest tomb ever builted.
They were designed to withstand hits from airliners apparently…
someone had a really bad monday and brought it to work that day huh?
When did they add the controlled demolitions?
I don’t understand why they didn’t remake both towers. It just tells me they were going to demolish them if 9/11 didn’t happen
No planes. Not a single one.
I don’t get why people believe it must be controlled demolition. On one of the amateur video’s you hear a close bystander say: “what if the structure can’t carry the weight once all the steel is melted away, and the whole building just comes crashing down?” Why even say that before it actually happens, if your theory gets to be debunked in hindsight? I trust the brain of an alert bystander more than a 1000 computer simulations. Also, you can clearly see the building collapsing from the top down. If it was a bomb it might as well be an airplane.
¿Quién puso los explosivos que denunciaron los bomberos en las torres gemelas? Por supuesto no fue Osama Bin Laden.
A bit hard to believe a acre wide building could be demolished by a passenger plane
Everyone says all the great things these towers symbolized and yet when they were destroyed, the owners and people in charge of the property STUBBORNLY refused to rebuild them even though almost the whole country wanted that including the families of the victims lost that day. Rebuilding them would’ve symbolized that we can rebuild and it would’ve represented a wound healing. People can’t recognize the NYC skyline without them even I can’t. Those jerks said it was for the best not to rebuild them but really what they were saying in their heads was, “Too bad. We don’t care what you all want. It’s our property and we’ll build whatever the hell we want on it. NAH!”
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