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