Installation View: Construction

The section on construction featured a dramatic 18-minute film titled "Building the World Trade Center" made by the Port Authority in 1983 from footage shot during the original construction. The color film documents and narrates the project from the clearing of site through the excavation, foundations, and steel hoisting and erection. The finished building is toured from bottom to top, including gazing out from now-lost vistas on the roof. The remainder of objects in this section were copy prints of photographs of construction workers on the job taken by the Port Authority's staff, as well as other photographs by individuals who have recently donated their prints to the Museum.