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Video: Quadcopter Captures Beautiful Images Of NYC
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Jul 28, 2013
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New York's no stranger to sweeping aerial views, but one videographer armed with a quadcopter— a four-rotor pilotless remote-controlled plane— and a couple cameras captured some lovely images of the city, with shots ranging from the East Village to Grand Central Terminal to Times Square (and more!). Check it out below:
PHANTOM FIRST FLIGHT from Nicolas Doldinger on Vimeo.
The video was made by Nicolas Doldinger, an NYC-based director and producer. But it looks like videos of cities are popping up all over the place these days: we've seen them over in Los Angeles, for instance, and someone circulated a quadcopter video of Bayside, Queens just a few months ago, though this one lacked the Wim Mertens soundtrack, sadly.
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