【海外の反応】9.11映画の紙吹雪、実は患者の医療記録だった珍事件が草生えるｗｗｗ

• on the day in question, the production company used what it believed was scrap paper for special effects during filming on city streets;
• a special effects company had obtained the paper from a recycling company for the film production company;
• when the crew learned that the paper included patient health records, they quickly began collecting it and the recycling company that had provided the paper was contacted and asked to come immediately to the set to assist in retrieving the paper from the streets;
• the Vice President of the recycling company attended at the site and personally assisted in retrieving the patient records.
• the producer had expected his crew to retain the records; however, he later discovered that the records had been taken away by the recycling company;
• concerned that they would be needed for any investigation that would be conducted, the producer immediately contacted the Vice President of the recycling company to alert him not to destroy the records;
• the producer provided IPC staff with the name and telephone number of the Vice Presi­dent of the recycling company.

A few days after 9/11, I slipped past the security cordon to take a look downtown. Nothing had been cleaned up then. There was still an aircraft engine in the middle of Broadway near St Paul’s.

The thing that stuck in my mind most, though, were bits of paper Cantor Fitzgerald payroll records stuck in the branches of a tree near Gold Street. By then we knew everyone at CF was probably dead.

I love that the implied message is they never intended to clean up their littering… 

I remember when that movie came out and I refused to watch it. To my mind, 9/11 had JUST happened. We did not need a freaking dramatization of the worst attack on American soil in decades, if not ever.

But I'm from upstate NY, nearly everyone I knew lost someone or knew someone who had died. Maybe that sentiment was limited to people who were geographically closer idk

To summarize:

– The Toronto Clinic had a bunch of boxes of old patient records they needed to get rid of.
– When the guy from the shredding company picked them up, he mistakenly assumed they were headed for recycling rather than shredding (possibly because they weren't in the shred-bins), despite the clinic's agreement with the company requiring that everything be shredded.
– The shredding company dropped those boxes off at a separate company's recycling depot.
– That recycling depot apparently sometimes gets requests from propmasters looking for paper, and will just give (sell?) them random stacks from the warehouse.

Also something about a landlord doing landlord shit:

> The staff member indicated that the Toronto Clinic was asked to remove their boxes from the designated storage area by the building’s landlord. The staff member went to retrieve the records and was shocked to find that the landlord had removed the boxes from their locked storage area. The boxes were found just outside the locked storage area in a crawl space adjacent to the building’s common parking area.

Does this mean the film crew originally intended to just litter?