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Six months after the fall of the World Trade Center towers, a documentary filmmaker began filming time-lapse movies of the site from 35-millimeter cameras placed atop buildings around the area. There are now six of them, each shooting one frame every 5 minutes. When they have been filming for 10 years, the length of the project, the resulting images will be compiled into a 20-minute film.
The project is called Project Rebirth, and the documentary filmmaker behind it is Jim Whitaker, who is also the president of Imagine Entertainment, the film production company started by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.
The six cameras are contained in specially designed boxes that protect them from the weather and from tampering. One sits at ground level, directed at the site across the cemetery at St. Paul's Chapel. Another...