Press Release - EarthCam Premieres New World Trade Center Time-Lapse Movie to Commemorate September 11th Anniversary

EarthCam Premieres New World Trade Center Time-Lapse Movie to Commemorate September 11th Anniversary

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New York, September 11, 2013 -- Today, Americans across the country are pausing to reflect and honor all those lost on September 11, 2001. EarthCam is remembering the events of that day by sharing a special commemorative time-lapse movie. The video highlights the rebirth and continuous progress of American ingenuity at the World Trade Center site.

The two-minute time-lapse movie details the construction process for this impressive 2.6-million-square-foot building from October 2004 to September 2013, showcasing the resilience of the American spirit and the historic rise of this New York City icon. Over the past 9 years, EarthCam construction cameras documented progress from 35 critical angles with high definition megapixel imagery. Viewers are invited to watch the vertical rise of One World Trade Center and witness the transformation of downtown Manhattan, courtesy of hundreds of thousands of images. Included in the time-lapse are archives from EarthCam’s MegapixelCam across the Hudson River in Liberty State Park, which offer an all-encompassing view of the evolving city skyline. Watch as the spire is installed, bringing One WTC to a staggering height of 1,776 feet and securing the title of the tallest building in the United States. Finally, a breathtaking panorama auto-generated by EarthCam’s GigapixelCam delivers the most dramatic view and leaves a lasting impression.

EarthCam has been on site since 2001, when EarthCam CEO & Founder, Brian Cury, installed a webcam just days after the attacks on September 11th and this latest time-lapse movie commemorates the dedication by many involved in rebuilding lower New York City. All of the images have been donated to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and were made available live at http://www.911memorial.org/911-memorial-webcam so people around the world could stay up-to-date on the constant progress and to educate future generations. New to the web page is an interactive view of the World Trade Center site, courtesy of EarthCam’s gigapixel webcam, which auto-generates 1 billion pixel panoramas. Special callouts on the image point out notable buildings and landmarks throughout the city that can be viewed from this aerial perspective.

Experience and watch the rebirth of the World Trade Center site with EarthCam’s commemorative time-lapse movie at www.youtube.com/earthcam.

ABOUT EARTHCAM

EarthCam is the global leader in delivering webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam provides live streaming video, time-lapse construction cameras and complete managed services for corporate and government clients in more than 1,500 international cities. With numerous applications in the construction, transportation, entertainment industries, EarthCam's revolutionary gigapixel camera systems deliver superior HD clarity, monitoring, documenting and archiving of the world's most important projects and events.

Projects documented by EarthCam include: Barclays Center, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Statue of Liberty Restoration, Panama Canal Expansion, Smithsonian Institution Restoration, Brickell CityCentre, Hong Kong Disneyland, Washington Monument Restoration, Los Angeles International Airport, Denver Union Station, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi, Levi’s Stadium and National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Learn more about EarthCam at www.earthcam.net. 

Visit the World Trade Center webcams at www.earthcam.com/worldtradecenter. 

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Somber U.S. ceremonies mark 12th anniversary of September 11 attacks

1 of 20. People walk past the skyline of New York's Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, September 11, 2013. Americans marked the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with solemn ceremonies and pledges not to forget the nearly 3,000 killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, in 2001.

Credit: Reuters/Gary Hershorn

By Victoria Cavaliere and Mark Felsenthal

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 11, 2013 1:18pm EDT

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bagpipes, bells and a reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday on a hot and hazy morning at the National September 11 Memorial plaza in Manhattan, for the annual reading of victims' names from both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Bagpipes and a youth choir ushered in the start of the solemn proceedings, held around two reflecting pools that stand in the footprint of the fallen twin towers.

"To my nephew Michael Joseph Mullin, we miss you and think of you every single day," said one of the 250 people chosen to read names. "You're gone but not forgotten," another woman said of her lost cousin.

In keeping with a tradition that began last year, no public officials spoke at the New York ceremony, though former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, his successor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and other city and state leaders were in attendance.

In a memorial service at the Pentagon, President Barack Obama called on Americans to pray for those whose lives had been lost.

"Let us have the strength to face the threats that endure, different though they may be from 12 years ago, so that as long as there are those who would strike our citizens, we will stand vigilant and defend our nation," Obama said.

The morning after a speech in which he urged Americans to support his proposal to use military force against Syria, in retribution for President Bashar al-Assad's poison gas attack on his own people, Obama also reflected on the limits of force.

"Let us have the wisdom to know that, while force is at times necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek," Obama said.

Americans observed moments of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT, the time American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower and with a second pause at 9:03 a.m. when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower.

Further moments of silence were observed at 9:37 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon; at 9:59 a.m. when the South Tower fell; at 10:03 a.m. when United Flight 93 hit the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and at 10:28 a.m., when the North Tower collapsed.

Nineteen hijackers died in the attacks, later claimed by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, which led directly to the U.S. war in Afghanistan and indirectly to the invasion of Iraq.

Two skyscrapers are nearly completed on either side of the plaza, including One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet, a symbolic number chosen to allude to the year of the Declaration of Independence.

At the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service's memorial service Wednesday included a reading of the names of the Flight 93 passengers and crew, a ringing of bells, a wreath-laying and brief remarks.

(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in New York and Mark Felsenthal in Washington; Editing by Scott Malone and Bernadette Baum)

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