The documentary 'What Happened on September 11' for children ages 7 to 12 debuts Wednesday, treating the 2001 terrorist attack as history instead of memory.
Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Los Angeles Times staff members rushed to New York.
In this case, she worked with the Sept. 11 remembrance museum on the story, filming two men who work there giving presentations to third-graders. Stephen Kern, who worked on the 62nd floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower, talks about being evacuated. Matthew Crawford, whose father was a firefighter who died that day, discusses his experience. She also found a middle school in Secaucus, N.J.
Short history lessons are sprinkled throughout the film, about New York and the World Trade Center, the onetime tallest towers in the world. Construction began in 1968. “One of the biggest questions the kids have is, ‘Why? Why would somebody do that? Why would there be such cruelty?’” she said. “That’s a very difficult thing to grapple with and answer, so that was the trickiest part of the project.”The film tells of Osama bin Laden and his militant activities that started with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. But it never truly answers the whys. Maybe no one can.
Schatz doesn’t avoid some of the terrible images of the day: the second plane striking the World Trade Center and resultant fireball, the collapse of each tower and the giant clouds of debris that billowed through the canyons of city streets. Schatz didn’t want to avoid those clips, since kids know that planes crashed into the buildings, but she opted not to spend much time on them “so that we didn’t create too many lingering after-images in people’s minds.
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