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The 56 photos of the slideshow showing the World Trade Center site
helicopter shot, commentary
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The order of the presentation of the photos does not correspond to a chronology 1, 2 - Windows of buildings, glass shattered by the blast of the cloud 4 - Suicide 5 - projection of metal beam fragments at a great distance from the tower, a sign of a series of explosions (heard by many witnesses) 6 - The second tower has just been hit. Kerosene, projected outside, ignites immediately 7, 8 - The remains of the World Trade Center 9, 10 - Immediate evacuation of the steel beams, cleanly cut (by explosives, a sure sign of controlled demolition) 11, 12 - 13 - In the foreground, in front of the twin towers, tower number 7, intact 14, 15 - Fires in the towers 16 - Clearly visible, building number 7 17 - Building number 7, in the background 18 - One of the twin towers in close-up 19 - A general view before the collapse of the second tower. On the left, building number 7. No visible sign of fire 20 - The second tower 21 - Wide shot. Building number 7 in the foreground 22 - Close-up on a fire in the second tower 23 - Same thing. Building number 7 is visible at the bottom and to the left 24 - The second tower collapses. The concrete is reduced to microscopic dust, a sign of destruction by explosives. The dust surrounds number 7 25, 26, 27 - Same: no visible sign of a significant fire on building number 7, in the foreground 28, 29, 30: Expansion of the dust cloud. No sign of fire on number 7, clearly visible 31 - Expansion of the cloud of pulverized and heated concrete 32, 33, 34 - Its extension over the Hudson 35 - A wide shot 36 - Building number 7 emerging from the dust 37 - Same, no noticeable sign of fire: no flames, no smoke 38 - After the dissipation of the one-micron diameter dust cloud 39 - Building number 7, at the top and to the left, still intact 40 - A wide view. The Statue of Liberty in the foreground.
41 - The dust is dissipating. Building number 7 in close-up at the top and to the right 42 - Detail of a building on the site 43 - Distant view, boat in the foreground 44, 45, 46 - Wide shot. Building number 7 is clearly visible 47, 48 - Overhead views of the site 49 - Another wide shot 50, 51 - Other overhead views 52 - Building number 7, on the left 53 - A wide shot 54 - Overhead view 55 - View of the site taken vertically. Building number 7 has been destroyed.
56 - The cloud of dust
The order of the presentation of the photos does not correspond to a chronology 1, 2 - Windows of buildings, glass shattered by the blast of the cloud 4 - Suicide 5 - projection of metal beam fragments at a great distance from the tower, a sign of a series of explosions (heard by many witnesses) 6 - The second tower has just been hit. Kerosene, projected outside, ignites immediately 7, 8 - The remains of the World Trade Center 9, 10 - Immediate evacuation of the steel beams, cleanly cut (by explosives, a sure sign of controlled demolition) 11, 12 - 13 - In the foreground, in front of the twin towers, tower number 7, intact 14, 15 - Fires in the towers 16 - Clearly visible, building number 7 17 - Building number 7, in the background 18 - One of the twin towers in close-up 19 - A general view before the collapse of the second tower. On the left, building number 7. No visible sign of fire 20 - The second tower 21 - Wide shot. Building number 7 in the foreground 22 - Close-up on a fire in the second tower 23 - Same thing. Building number 7 is visible at the bottom and to the left 24 - The second tower collapses. The concrete is reduced to microscopic dust, a sign of destruction by explosives. The dust surrounds number 7 25, 26, 27 - Same: no visible sign of a significant fire on building number 7, in the foreground 28, 29, 30: Expansion of the dust cloud. No sign of fire on number 7, clearly visible 31 - Expansion of the cloud of pulverized and heated concrete 32, 33, 34 - Its extension over the Hudson 35 - A wide shot 36 - Building number 7 emerging from the dust 37 - Same, no noticeable sign of fire: no flames, no smoke 38 - After the dissipation of the one-micron diameter dust cloud 39 - Building number 7, at the top and to the left, still intact 40 - A wide view. The Statue of Liberty in the foreground.
41 - The dust is dissipating. Building number 7 in close-up at the top and to the right 42 - Detail of a building on the site 43 - Distant view, boat in the foreground 44, 45, 46 - Wide shot. Building number 7 is clearly visible 47, 48 - Overhead views of the site 49 - Another wide shot 50, 51 - Other overhead views 52 - Building number 7, on the left 53 - A wide shot 54 - Overhead view 55 - View of the site taken vertically. Building number 7 has been destroyed.
56 - The cloud of dust
**The first one all collapsed. On the left, building number 7. No noticeable sign of fire.
****Why did this building collapse and not others, also close to the twin towers? **