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Drone guy films the fireworks on the Parkway

Drone operator edits a dazzling 30-second clip of the Parkway fireworks as seen from the Schuylkill.

This is what the Parkway fireworks looked like from a drone.
This is what the Parkway fireworks looked like from a drone.Read morePhillyByDrone

Christopher Kao, who has taken stunning drone photographs of the new Comcast tower, filmed the fireworks over the Parkway on Tuesday night.

Kao, a Southern California native and student at the University of Pennsylvania, says he captured the fireworks display with his camera-equipped drone with the help of Matt Mizbani, also a Penn student.

Kao, now interning at Philadelphia tech firm Curalate, piloted the camera-equipped drone and Mizbani operated the camera.

"We flew along the Schuylkill, around 1,000 feet to the north from Spring Garden bridge and 1,000 feet to the south," Kao said on Wednesday morning. "We were careful to avoid the crowds, so we chose to stay over the river."