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00:57:11 WORLD TRADE CENTER: 1966 AERIAL PAN OF NEW YORK CITY WITH MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN BRIDGES, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. PAN TO AREA WHICH WAS RAZED TO MAKE ROOM FOR TWIN TOWERS.
00:57:31 MONTAGE SHOTS OF UNIQUE OLD BUILDINGS, STORES, PRIOR TO BEING TORN DOWN, ARTIST RENDITION OF TWIN TOWERS. HARD HAT CONSTRUCTION WORKER SMASHES SECTION OFF BUILDING WITH SLEDGE HAMMER, ANOTHER USES JACK HAMMER. IT TOOK MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND WORKERS TO REMOVE 164 "OUTDATED" BUILDINGS.
00:57:55 MONTAGE BULLDOZERS, CRANES, REMOVING DEBRIS IN WIDE CLEARED OUT AREA. CU DERRICK SCOOPS UP DEBRIS, EMPTIES IT. WELDER LAYS ON GROUND WELDING NETWORK OF FOUNDATION RODS TOGETHER. ZOOM IN ON CRANE OPERATOR WITH CIGAR IN MOUTH AS HE WORKS. CU HEAVY DEMOLITION BALL FALLING TO GROUND, HUGE CEMENT MIXER CHURNING.
00:58:15 AERIAL VIEW OF CONSTRUCTION SITE. CU DERRICK SCOOPS UP DIRT. MONTAGE HARD HAT MEN AT WORK.
00:58:25 LS FIRST TOWER BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE AS IT RISES FROM FOUNDATION 70 FEET BELOW STREET LEVEL. CIRCA 1969. SEVERAL SHOTS OF THE STEEL STRUCTURE. DARING STEEL WORKER STANDS ON SINGLE STEEL UPRIGHT HIGH ABOVE GROUND. LS VIEW OF STRUCTURE AS IT GETS
TALLER.
00:59:01 IN LATE 1970. THE LAST PIECE OF STEEL IS LIFTED MORE THAN A QUARTER MILE TO TOP OF TOWER. AERIAL VIEW OF ROOF, WITH GIANT CRANE SITTING ON TOP.
00:59:08 AERIAL VIEW OF COMPLETED TOWER AND ITS UNCOMPLETED
TWIN. HARD HAT WORKERS LIFT FLAG ON NORTH TOWER UPON ITS COMPLETION DECEMBER 1970. SOUTH TOWER WAS COMPLETED IN 1971. LS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS CHEER.
00:59:20 MEN, WOMEN COMING, GOING, INTO REVOLVING DOORS OF TRADE CENTER. STREAM OF PEOPLE USING ESCALATORS, WALKING ABOUT THE CORRIDORS. PAN OF LONG LINE OF SECRETARIES AT DESKS.
00:59:50 SIGN ON WALL: "WORLD TRADE INSTITUTE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER." ZOOM OUT TO BUSINESS MEN, WOMEN, FROM WORLD TRADING NATIONS, SITTING AT HUGE ROUND TABLE.