I find it hard to believe in the 1970s in NYC there would be no news stations filming it. Yet I've never seen any footage of it on YouTube or anywhere.
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No footage exists of him walking on the wire.
shareThe towers were a quarter mile high. Nobody probably would have had a powerful enough lens to see him at that distance or greater. it was early morning plus they said it was a cloudy and overcast day. The police did catch him in the act, supposedly. There are photos. Of course, you can doubt everything. Maybe the footage of the police and news media were faked using actors. Are there legitimate stories? The photos of him walking the wire may be fake. His accomplices may have been lying. The whole thing could be a hoax for all we know.
shareWatch "Man on wire" on Dailymotion (like YouTube) it is the documentary told first person by the folks who pulled off the greatest wire walk ever! Lots of footage of the real event...
shareGuess you're kidding right? ..did he really do it. ..yeah just slick cg...
shareYou can question the truth of all "documentaries." Like did Banksy really direct "Exit Through The Gift Shop"? How do you know the guy with his face canceled by a hood and shadows and his voice digitally altered is the real guy? Anybody could copy his style and claim to be him. How can you trust or identify Anonymous people? Maybe Banksy is a collective of artists who make stuff and go around putting it up. Maybe a lot of fake people pass off graffiti as his. "You can question everything. You can never know anything for sure." (Natalie, from Memento, who turned out to be correct - Leonard was only lying to himself to create certainty.)
shareThe towers were a quarter mile high. I doubt if even the media had lenses powerful enough to see him at that height. Plus, it was a cloudy, hazy, overcast day, they said. He would look smaller than an ant to at that distance and even with a 35mm camera and powerful lens it would probably be too small to see. People did not have mobile phones and the press didn't move as fast back then. It is surprising that Petit didn't have a video camera on the roof. We see all these old videos with him practicing and at home but nobody had video on the roof for his biggest stunt?
shareIt's pretty evident from the film that Phillipe Petit's sole intention in this matter was to achieve, not deceive. He didn't want to tell people that he walked on a wire between the twin towers - he wanted to do it.
shareOf course there is real footage of the walk... Watch the movie "Man on Wire" on the website Dailymotion, it is full of real footage by the folks who actually pulled it off...
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