Kei Sugimoto was 24 years old when he shot this video of the World Trade Center Towers collapsing. Two days ago, he released the never-before-seen video on his YouTube channel.
He wrote in the YouTube description: "Footage I filmed of the World Trade Center Collapsing on 9/11/2001. Filmed from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter. For historical archival purposes only."
I was cleaning my closet and found boxes full of Hi-8, Digital-8, and DV tapes. When trying to play them back I noticed that maybe about a 3rd of them had demagnetized over time and were either blank, or suffering from major data corruption. After researching online I learned that video tapes are not immune from age even when stored in ideal conditions, so I frantically started to digitize them. Thus I'm just uploading the video now.
On youtube comments he explains why he is releasing it now.
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/25/new-9-11-wtc-collapse-footage-emerges-after-23-years.html
Some new views never before seen but good for the archive.
"For historical archival purposes only." - How these people get the best angle? Don't tell me he was dancing too...
And 23 years later? Why?
Combined with their "mostly peaceful" reaction... Seems very suspicious...
On youtube comments he explains why he is releasing it now.
Well, I am not aware of demagnetizing over time of video tapes...