9/11 Eyewitness is a DVD by Rick Siegel purporting to teach the truth about the attack on the World Trade Center. Instead of elucidating the truth, however, the piece seems designed to hide the reality of the explosive demolition of the Twin Towers by surrounding footage of the demolitions with a vermeer of vapid claims and pseudo-scientific analysis. The DVD teaches us that helicopters were instrumental in the Towers' destruction and that it was a "nuclear attack".
People have described the film as tedious and annoying. That's not for want of production values, which are quite good. Perhaps it's the film's intrusive commentary on incidental events. Perhaps it's the talking-down style of the narrator. In any case, the DVD provides a great example of how to deter critical thinkers from looking at the evidence that the Towers were demolished.
The DVD is built around footage of the World Trade Center attack filmed by Siegel from across the Hudson in Hoboken. It shifts between segments of three different types:
* Interview: Siegel in a brown shirt and sunglasses talking to the camera while standing on the pier from which he filmed the attack * Live video: Siegel's WTC footage, much with radio broadcast audio, and sometimes annotated and overlaid with markers and text. * Lesson narration: Graphics with a voiceover by a narrator not sounding like Siegel purporting to describe the events or explain physical principles in relation to the events.
The interview segments contain the few valid arguments for demolition, although they are not articulated clearly. The live video segments are peppered with overlays highlighting and jumping to conclusions about alleged events that are not or are just barely perceptible.
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