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HANSEL MIETH: VAGABOND PHOTOGRAPHER

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Produced and Directed by
Nancy Schiesari

Executive Producer
T.E. Kolenda

Written and adapted by
Nancy Schiesari
Cooper Wood

Editor
Cooper Wood

Director of Photography
Therese Sherman

Co-Producers
Hans-Martin Liebing
and
Elana Wakeman
Juliet Dervin
Sara Giustini

Associate Producers
Laura Saponara
Pam Strayer
Jay Mason

Associate Editor
Larissa Noake

Hansel Mieth Trailer edited by:
Larissa Noake
Paula Rogge
Joe Ambrosavage
Karen Kocher

Assistant Editors
Sara Carlson
David Sun

Post-Production Supervisor
Librado Lozano

On-Line Consultant
Suzanne Kraft

On-line Editors
Raina James
David Wilson
Milena Grozeva

Original Music by
Javier Chaparro

Musicians
Jim Warth
Carolyn Chaparro
Javier Chaparro
Terry Hale
Rick McRae
Art Kidd
Herschel Moody

Additional Music
David Chapman
Vicki Genfan
Mark Hill

Music Engineer
Bradley Koop

Sound Editing and Mixing
Mark Hill
Juan Diaz

Motion Effects Designed and Edited by
Milena Grozeva
Ariel Quintans
Tray Duncan
Jose Mata

Credits Design
Jacob Villanueva

Additional Camera
Nancy Schiesari
John Knoop
Hans-Martin Liebing
Elizabeth Thompson
Geoff Marslett

Narration
Young Hansel Diane Franklyn
Otto Oliver Freiberger

Voice Over Sound Recordist
Bill Jenkins
Mike Dow

Post-Production Coordinator
Cyndy Kirkland

Archival Research
Michael Dolan
Salvatore Botti
Nancy Schiesari

Consultant
Nick Cominos

Advisor
Georgia Brown

Film inspired by article “Never Just Art”
by Grace Schaub in Photography Forum, 1996

Heart Mountain
Archive Footage courtesy
Eiichi Edward Sakauye

Hansel Mieth Life Photographs © Time-Life, Inc.

Footage from
"The Simple Life-Photographers
Otto Hagel and Hansel Mieth"
a film produced by
Gaetano Kazuo Maida and John Knoop, 1994

Additional portrait of Hansel Mieth
© Imogen Cunningham

Portraits of Otto Hagel and Hansel Mieth
© Wayne Miller and Peter Stackpole

Footage from
"Riding the Rails“
courtesy Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys

Archive footage provided by:
The National Archive
UCLA
Getty Images
The Steven Spielberg Holocaust Museum
Marquette University
Wayne State Labor archive
Footage Farm, UK
Tom Taylor

Special Thanks to...

Anne Lewis, Monty Young, Mamoru Inouye,
Debra Heimerdinger, Karen Bernstein, Haley Johnson
Roy Flukinger, Vince Hostak, Joan Cominos, Vivian Vives,
Gloria Holder, Janet Staiger, Marie Marshall, Kenn Rabin
Instructional Design Group at The University of Texas,
Anne Tucker, Peter Stackpole, Otto Hagel, Uli Reinhardt,
Christa Linsenmaier-Wolf, Christopher Palm,
David Hosley, Beverly Brannan, Vivian Hillgrove
Werner Herzog, Maria Ekbert, Deborah Garcia,
Department of Radio-Televison-Film,
the Deans Fellowship at The University of Texas
College of Communication at The University of Texas,
Bob Erickson, Nina and Naomi Rosenblum, David Hoagland
David Fudell, Ingeborg Reichardt, Jorge Cox,
The Instructional Media Center at The University of Texas,
Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona,
Nora Waterloo, BJ Fernea, Linda Cavage, Eleanor Cheetham,
Felix Turton, Susan Dirks, Ivana Slovnic, Francesca Talenti,
Kay and Walt Persons, Bert Herigstag, Paul Stekler,
Melanie West, Ellen Spiro, Marcia Tiede, Denise Gosé, Dianne Nilsen,
Elisabeth Peters, Austin Film Society, Dan de Waal,
Mireille Fornengo, Alison Rooper, Carey Stuart,
Elizabeth Sikes, Begeret Crow, Helen Beardsley,
Jurgen Streek, Barbara Wolbert, Arther Steinman,
Marta Diase, Amparo Garcia, Marina Golovskay
Angela Hall Watkins, Denise Mann, Michael Uys, June West and Dr. Pamela Yu.

All photographs in this film are by
Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel except where noted

Made in Association with Barcelona Films and Cinigma Pictures

This film is dedicated to Nives Bartolozzi

This program was produced by Nancy Schiesari
who is solely responsible for its content
©2003, Nancy Schiesari. All rights Reserved

Funding for this program was provided by
Texas Council for the Humanities
the City of Austin Cultural Contracts Program,
the Jamail Fund
and the City of Fellbach, Germany

Presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS),
with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting



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