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Inaugural Fireworks - Aerial Videos

These three Quicktime clips are from a video taken from a United States Park Police helicopter by Smithsonian photographer John Dillaber during the inaugural fireworks program. The helicopter was flying on the Virginia side of the Potomac River. The river is the dark area in the foreground of the videos. The bright line running through it is the Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial at the far end.

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Best Seat in the House

Photographer John Dillaber describes his view from the helicopter and shooting video in the cold weather.
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Camera Shake

Photographer John Dillaber talks about controlling the camera in the helicopter. (RealAudio 0:14 / 27k)


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These digital image files created from Photo CDs scanned courtesy Digix Imaging
Photographed with PJM Ektapress MultiSpeed Color Negative Film courtesy Eastman Kodak
Image processing on Macintosh 9500's courtesy Apple Computer

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