Before commenting on these stills from Madonnas 1986 video to the controversial #1 hit that year, Papa Dont Preach, I will have to admit another delay until sometime tomorrow in getting that album up of music video images of the WTC prior to September 11th, 2001 (I promise it will be up tomorrow for sure, its just that here in Atlanta we had a late afternoon/early evening thunderstorm and showers that seems to have finally started knocking down the temperatures to where we might be gradually into a fall like temperatures -- keeping my fingers crossed on that.) Anyway, back to these stills -- from Madonnas second music video to have images of the World Trade Center. The Papa Dont Preach video was mainly filmed across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center in the historic neighborhood of Paulus Hook in Jersey City where near the river the WTC can still be seen on clear or fairly clear days. Two of these images were filmed there one where Madonna walks by a metal gate and the other one which has one of my favorite distant views of the WTCs Twin Towers filmed before September 11th, 2001. (Its at a very unique angle with the houses rising up on a hill, that really makes me wonder how the camera crew was able to do that? Hope Madonna paid them well for that.) I also love the up close night-time image of the two towers, lowel levels, as seen from ferry that Madonna and her boyfriend in the video are dancing on, and also behind the orchestra. I do have to admit I do have a bit of a love-hate relationship with that scene. I remember when I visited New York City in 1998, the only time I visited when the World Trade Center Twin Towers were still with us, I wanted to go ride a ferry like that at night just to see if I could recapture the magic I felt when watching Madonnas video 12 years earlier, but no one else I was with in my group (one of my sisters, her friend, and my two nephews) would agree to do so. To this day I regretted that, since I will no longer be able to recreate that image from Madonnas video, in person.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:28:08 +0000
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