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Produced, directed and written by
Jon Else

Producer
Bonni Cohen

Editor
Deborah Hoffmann

Composer
John Adams

Opera Directed by
Peter Sellars

Associate Producer
Linda Davis

Camera
Jon Else
Jon Shenk
Michael Chin
Peter Thomas

Location Sound
John Haptas

Graphic Design
Drew Takahashi

Technical Coordinator
Jigar Mehta

Narrator
Eric Owens

Assistant Editor/Archive Supervisor
Linda Davis

Additional Sound
Doug Dunderdale
Dave McJunkin
David Mehlman
Gabe Monts

Office Manager
Joey Xanders

Production Assistants
Sara Dosa
Rachel Berney
Sidney Scully
Craig Hickerson
Arris Shabaglian

Camera, Grip & Electric
Lincoln Else
Howard Shack
Spencer Mulcahy Bill Pelkey

Advisors
Martin Sherwin Barton Bernstein Peter Galison Siegfried Hecker
HD Online & Finishing Loren Sorensen
Jon Vargo David Weissman
Ed Rudolph
Gary Coates
Chris Martin

Sound Design
James LeBrecht Patti Tauscher Dan Olmsted
Archival Research
Richard Berge Bonnie Rowan Polly Pettit
Kenn Rabin

Historical Film and Sound
Footage from Trinity and Beyond courtesy of VCE.COM
United States National Archives and Records Administration
NBC News Archives
Getty Images
Library of Congress
4FP Archives
Sam Riegel
Ina-Institute National De L’Audiovisuel
Wytwornia Filmowa Czolowka
Day After Trinity © Jon Else

Historical Photographs
Rachel Fermi & Esther Samra, Picturing the Bomb
Ulli Steltzer
Banesh Hoffmann Papers
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection
United States National Archives and Records Administration
Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Elmer Donor
Philippe Halsman ©Halsman Estate
California Institute of Technology
Françoise Ulam
Daniel, Jonathan and Rand Wilson
Fermilab Archives and Visual Media Services
Los Alamos National Laboratory Archives
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Rand McNally
McGill University Archives
©Corbis
©Bettman/Corbis
AP Images
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
Text from The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God, translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, used with permission by Vedanta Press
Niels Bohr Archive, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives
Maps provided by the Earth Sciences and Map Library at UC Berkeley
Bird/Sherwin Collection
©2006 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Marie Hansen/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Bernard Hoffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
George Skadding/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Arnold Newman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
John Coster-Mullen
Plutonium core illustration by Jonathan Hull
Randall Hagadorn
Harvard University Archives
John Bigelow Taylor/Art Resource, NY
United States Army Signal Corps photograph courtesy of the Harry S. Truman Library
Peter Oppenheimer

Legal
Bill Sokol
Peter Jaszi
Kenneth Weinrib

Music

Doctor Atomic score courtesy of
Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company

Wild Nights from Harmonium
Composed by John Adams (BMI)
Performed by John Adams courtesy of Nonesuch Records
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Published by Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (BMI)

Disappointment Lake
Composed and performed by John Adams
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group/Nonesuch Records
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Special Thanks
Lisa Anderson
Kai Bird
Todd Boekelheide
April Busch
Donato Cabrera
Andres Cediel
Keith Cerny Kip Cranna
Rob Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Katy Garfield
Shane Gasbarra
Cynthia Gorney
Will Hamilton
Rob Harris
Lori Harrison
Robert Hass
Kevin Higa
Jorey Hurley
IATSE Local 16
Jay Kotcher
Dan Krauss
Ann Kroeber
Lauren Lazin
Carrie Lozano
Tom Luddy
Patrick Markle
Jason Marsh
Nevada Test Site
Steven Okazaki
Charles Oppenheimer
Judy Oppenheimer
David Peoples
Janet Peoples
Jeff Plunkett
Lourdes Portillo
Mary Powell
Ariana Reguzzioni
Frances Reid
Richard Rhodes
Mary Robinson
Max Robinson
Orville Schell
Patricia Sellars
Camille Servan-Schreiber
Staff at Los Alamos Labs and Museum
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Mark Urban
Steven White
Annelise Wunderlich

Doctor Atomic
Music by John Adams
Libretto by Peter Sellars, adapted from original sources
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, Pamela Rosenberg; Donald Runnicles, Music Director and Principal Conductor
Conducted by Donald Runnicles
Directed by Peter Sellars
Choreography by Lucinda Childs
Scenery designed by Adrienne Lobel
Costumes designed by Dunya Ramicova
Lighting designed by Jim Ingalls
Sound designed by Mark Grey
Costumes fabricated by the San Francisco Opera Costume Shop
Scenery construction and painting by the San Francisco Opera Scenic Shop
Chorus Director Ian Robertson
Doctor Atomic is a co-production of SFO and Lyric Opera of Chicago and De Nederlandse Opera

Featuring
Gerald Finley
Kristine Jepson
Tom Randle
Eric Owens
Richard Paul Fink
James Maddalena
Beth Clayton
Thomas Glenn
Jay Hunter Morris

Fiscal Sponsor
Iris Films

Funding by
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Osher Family Foundation
Sundance Documentary Fund
Carol Franc Buck Foundation
Ploughshares Fund
National Endowment for the Arts

Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer

Wonders are Many is a co-production of Jon Else, Actual Films, and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

Wonders are Many was produced by Jon Else and Actual Films, who are solely responsible for its content.

© 2007 Jon Else. All Rights Reserved.


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