The sequence from Pavel Hlava's video which lead up to the North Tower hit is
very interesting. This page discusses the overall selection of shots. The
next page discusses specific problems with the footage.
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We start out in a tollbooth line (frame #1). The time-stamp says it is 08:45:02. (The
North tower will be hit by a plane in one minute.) We have been told that Pavel is
riding in a 4 WD vehicle. The automobile moves forward slightly. At the
same time, the camera zooms in on the WTC. While the camera zooms a foreground streetlight
is seen moving with the WTC in backdrop. This is significant because it leaves the
subliminal visual impression of the movement that the plane allegedly makes
in the next shot of the North Tower (i.e., frames #6 and #7).
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In frame #3 we are still in the same tollbooth line as in frame #1. The
camera zooms lazily in, making the focal point of the overall
composition the two tolls that start out (in frame #3) as the
second and third ones from the right. This is another way that movement
is being utilized to suggest that something will hit the North tower, which
is seen in the next shot. The North tower in the next image will be at
a similiar location as these two tolls are in frame #4.
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We dissolve from the tollbooth to the North tower. (Frame #5
shows the mid-point of the dissolve.) Presumably, ABC made the dissolve from
Pavel's footage. However, why dissolve so shortly before the camera will be
zooming-in to see the North Tower hit by a plane? One reason could be that the
dissolve complicates the process of verifying that the shadows are correct in the
next shot. The second, more obvious reason is it disguises the fact there
was no plane which struck the North tower.
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Careful inspection of frame #6 reveals we are in an automobile that is in line
for the Brooklyn tunnel. Shortly after completing the dissolve from the
tollbooth we quickly zoom-in on the North tower (frame #7) where a
whitish smoke is seen exiting it. This side of the North tower is the
eastern wall. This means that Flight 11 would have only briefly have been
seen since it allegedly struck the northern wall.
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