Movie Description:
Beginning with the North Tower afair and billowing dense smoke, and ending with the vast expanse of ash-brown debris the following morning, WTC: THEFIRST 24 HOURS documents "ground zero" in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center,September 11, 2001. The documentary was shot independentlyover a 24-hour period.It is first a witness to the fall of the twin towers, as a line of fire and a bucket in thearmature signal imminent collapse. It is then an intimate view fo the smolder-ing monochromatic site and surrounding solitary streets; the ashen outskirts ofNew York`s financial center, desolate and strewn with debris and the epi- center, steel moonscape of Dresdenesque remains. People on the site workmonotonously. The images speakfor themselves.
