{"id":218943,"date":"2025-09-11T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:29:26","slug":"500-hours-of-dramatic-never-before-seen-footage-of-9-11-and-aftermath-to-be-unveiled-at-new-york-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218943\/","title":{"rendered":"500 hours of dramatic, never-before-seen footage of 9\/11 and aftermath to be unveiled at New York Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of hours of harrowing, never-before-seen first-person footage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/us-news\/exec-salaries-skyrocket-while-cash-strapped-9-11-museum-continues-to-bleed-red-slap-in-the-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept. 11 terrorist attacks <\/a>and their aftermath will soon be unveiled at the New York Public Library in a new historic archive \u2014\u00a0and The Post got an exclusive first peek Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 500 hours of new footage includes\u00a0striking images from Ground Zero recovery efforts,\u00a0 destroyed subway tunnels and pet rescue missions, library officials said Thursday, on the 24th <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/11\/us-news\/9-11-survivor-visits-ground-zero-for-first-time-on-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anniversary of the attacks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never-before-seen footage released exclusively to The Post, titled \u201cNighttime Recovery,\u201d shows smoke rising in gloomy gray plumes at Ground Zero as first responders dig through piles of rubble with an orange excavator.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke rises over Ground Zero, less than a day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The CameraPlanet Archive \/ NYPL<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter enveloped in smoke sprays debris with a firehose as a stunned observer declares, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does he breathe?\u201d another observer ominously wonders about the smoke, which would later be found to be extremely toxic.<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter sprays smoking rubble with a hose as another responder digs through debris at Ground Zero. The CameraPlanet Archive \/ NYPL<\/p>\n<p>Other camerawork, released exclusively to The Post, shows workers trying to fix a leaky, blasted-out subway tunnel at the Cortland Street station, near the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p>Other new footage \u2014 shot largely on hand-held cameras, before the proliferation of smartphones \u2014 shows a bomb scare at the Empire State Building on Sept. 12, 2002,\u00a0a light tribute from the Westside Pier and a nighttime time lapse of World Trade Center shots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 1,200-plus hours of video in the archive documenting the unthinkable tragedy won\u2019t be unveiled to the general public until 2027, said Brent Reidy, director of the research libraries for the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Mangled buildings at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The CameraPlanet Archive \/ NYPL<\/p>\n<p>A dilapidated structure emits smoke after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The CameraPlanet Archive \/ NYPL<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy preserving these firsthand accounts, we are ensuring that future generations can study Sept. 11 as it was experienced by New Yorkers in real time,\u201d Reidy said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The collection, dubbed the CameraPlanet Archive, was donated by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder and is the largest contemporaneous video collection of Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>The blasted-out subway line near the Cortland Street station. The CameraPlanet Archive \/ NYPL<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cAt a time when misinformation, denialism, and revisionist history circulate widely, timestamped and contemporaneous video records carry renewed civic importance. The CameraPlanet Archive is not simply a record of tragedy; it is a safeguard against forgetting and distortion,\u201d said Rosenbaum.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the donation, the New York Public Library will host a screening of\u00a0\u201c7 Days in September,\u201d a film by Rosenbaum, on Sept. 11, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of hours of harrowing, never-before-seen first-person footage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[79462,5229,1020,5248,405,403,89275,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-218943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-9-11","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-public-library","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115187323006780085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}