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Loose Change is a documentary video on the September 11, 2001 attacks. It features scenes from various publically available video sources of 9/11. Each scene is self explanatory, or is accompanied by detailed explanations including review of some scenes frame by frame, often from several different video sources such as popular DVD compilations and major network feeds.

The documentary was put out by the Louder Than Words company which consists of three people with the names of Korey Rowe, Dylan Avery, and Jason Bermas. Dylan Avery is the director and narrator of Loose Change. Korey Rowe is the producer and Jason Bermas is their webmaster and graphic designer. Korey Rowe served in the military for some time, and was in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

The first edition begins with footage of the first plane hitting the north tower of the World Trade Center, which was captured by Jules and Gedeon Naudet, and included in their documentary 9/11. As the plane flew overhead, their camera panned down one of the streets of New York City and paused facing the Trade Center buildings just before first contact with the tower. This footage is one of only two known visual records of the first plane striking the tower, apart from footage shot by Pavel Hlava.

As of late 2004, a second edition of this documentary was released, with significant additions and changes. In particular, the introduction includes background information leading up to the days before 9/11, and removes some of the commentary about the strikes on the World Trade Center towers. In particular, all claims that the planes used in the tower attacks shot missiles in the instant before they collided, were removed, as well as commentary about modification to the fuselage of the aircraft. The documentary is notable for presenting a strong rebuttal to the established versions of the events as officially recounted in the 9/11 Commission Report produced under the direction of the executive director of the commission, Philip Zelikow, a former colleague of Condoleeza Rice at the University of Virginia.

Nearing the release of the second edition of Loose Change the Louder Than Words crew attended a speech in Oneota, New York wearing black t-shirts with bold words proclaiming "Investigate 9/11." FOX news was at the speech filming when they pulled the crew over and asked to do a news story on them, asking about what their shirts meant. Local FOX news out of Binghamton put on a "FOX FOCUS" two-parter that took place on two nightly news along with a third segment in the following days.

Currently, Dylan Avery is writing the script to his next film entitled "Loose Change: The Movie" which will be released this year.

The second edition of the film is available for free to download and distribution is encouraged, according to a statement at the end of the film.

Factual accuracy

The film devotes much time to the claim that the damage done by the two airliners could not have sufficed to completely demolish the Twin Towers. It suggests that the buildings were taken down in a controlled demolition by means of explosives placed inside, and provides several examples of skyscrapers sustaining heavy damage without collapsing. At one point it is stated that the Empire State Building was hit by a B-52 bomber in 1945. It was acutally a B-25, which in contrast to the B-52 did already exist in 1945. The producers of the video have acknowledged their error and published corrections.

Extensive debunking of the film's theories regarding the damage to the Pentagon has been published by Snopes.com, an urban legend site. Snopes has also dedicated articles to claims of insider trading before 9/11, another claim featured in the film.

Debunking

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