First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers tell about what happened when the lights went out on July 13, 1977.
Editing
Seamless weaving of archival looting footage with sweaty Con Edison control room tapes.
Direction
Wiser lets ordinary New Yorkers narrate their own small apocalypse.
Director
Callie T. Wiser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The blackout birthed hip-hop: DJs couldn't afford equipment until looted gear hit the Bronx streets that night.
Director Wiser spent years locating the actual Con Edison dispatch tapes—most archivists didn't know they survived.
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