Credits
Seeing in the Dark
A Film by Timothy Ferris
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Music by Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher
Written, Produced, and Narrated by Timothy Ferris
Directed by Nigel Ashcroft
Based on the book Seeing in the Dark
By Timothy Ferris
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Director of Photography
Francis Kenny, A.S.C.
Editor
Lisa Day, A.C.E.
Production Designer
Cal Zecca
Special Effects
Don Davis
Sound Design
Kate Hopkins
Sound Mix
Walter Murch, C.A.S.
Associate Producer
Mark Andrews
Consulting Producers
Thomas Levenson
Peter Jones
Music
Original Music by Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher
"Dark Was The Night..."
Written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson
"Dark Was The Night..."
by Blind Willie Johnson
Performed by Patrick Ferris
"Blue Moon"
by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers
Performed by The Marcels
"Gone"
by Smokey Rogers
Performed by Ferlin Husky
"Oboe Concerto in E-flat Major: Adagio"
by William Herschel
Performed by
Graham St-Laurent, oboe
Valerie Weber, Tatiana Daubek, and Joy Grimes, violins
Emily Rideout, viola; Ellen Wheel, cello; Ilana White, bass
Akiko Sato, harpsichord
"Like Snow"
Written and performed by Michael Koppelman
"Mama, 'Tain't Long fo' Day"
by Blind Willie McTell
Performed by Patrick Ferris
Program Business Affairs
Nondas Voll
Wardrobe
Cal Zecca
Wardrobe Assistants
Roxanne Harvey
Sam Pine
Camera Assistants
Petr Stepanek
Joe Christofori
Peter Farber
Bill Floyd
Colin Threinen
Assistant Editors
Ruth Bird
David Massachi
Mark Andrews
Sound Recording
Gabriel Monts
John Cameron
Roy Chase
Timothy Ferris
John Osborne
Clark Spencer
Tami Stepanek
Chris Weinland
Gaffers
Jon Fontana
Dave Hallas
Marty Segal
John Kiffmeyer
Grips
Drew Eckmann
Albert Ariza
Jib Operator
Colin Ducey
Carpenter
James Roach
Line Producer, Miami
Jim Bigham
Production Assistants
Glen Edison
Emmanuel Philogene
Maryann Arrien
Tyler Griffiths
Brady Kiernan
Joan Meister
Jordan Plotsky
Daniel Siekman
Makeup Artists
Kris Ravetto
Carmen Lopez
Kim Horecka
Vicki Morgenstern
Astrophotography
Robert Gendler
Akira Fujii
Jack Newton
Timothy Ferris
Francis Kenny
Kenneth Crawford
Michael A. Mayda
Mike Palermiti
Axel Mellinger
Allan E. Morton
Students at EUC Syd/AGS, Denmark
Tunç Tezel
Andreas Roerig
Neil Fleming
Night Assistants
Stephen McFadden
William Strople
Location Photography
Mark Diamond
Advisors
Sallie L. Baliunas
Andrew Fraknoi
Stephen James O'Meara
Joseph Patterson
Carl Pennypacker
William H. Schmidt
Neil Tyson
John Wagoner
Barbara Wilson
Janet Mattei (1943-2004)
Bohdan Paczynski (1940-2007)
Cast
Deerfield Beach, 1956
Braden Bullard
Key Biscayne, 1961
Patrick Ferris
Elisa McDaniel
Jake Faulkner
Debby Dowlin
Amanda Nelson, Melissa Magid
Jack Farniglio, Jamie Calmet, Ivan Rivera
Nashville, 1871
Luke Gonhes
Hastenbeck, 1757
Graham St-Laurent
Miami, 2006
Jonathan Rigaud, Chad-Jamie Rigaud, Nico Amaro
Studio Teacher
Carolyn Crimmley
Special Thanks
Thorn McDaniel
Pamela Barish
Summer & Michael Mann
Francis Ford Coppola
Menno Meyjes
Jeanette Etheredge
Hyman Field
Sue Moore
Tim Hallinan
Alice Mayhew
Owen Laster
Paul Crockford
David Winton
Larry Botto
Steve Mandel
Jon Else
William Sheehan
Don Parker
John Martin
Leif Robinson
David J. Eicher
Rick Fienberg
Al Nagler
Daniel Mounsey
Patricia Dinner
Greg Estrada
Claudia and Ruben Farias
Gonsalo Jauregui
Elsa Ramos
Stephen Whalen
Dale Hughes
Martha Kurtz
Steve Sable
Mogens Winther
Brendan Parsons, the Seventh Earl of Rosse
Harvard College Observatory
New Mexico Skies
Canon USA
Santa Barbara Instrument Group
Meade Instruments
Software Bisque
Unitron
Televue
Mazda USA
Rocky Hill Farm
Judge Family Vineyard
City and County of San Francisco
Rancho Del Sol Observatory
San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Kenneth Frank
Robert English
Alexandra Rodriguez
Jorge Canals
Pat Latternar
Steven Geisler
Jean Baird and Thomas Addis Ferris
Archival Materials
Researcher: Susan Hormuth
National Archives and Records Administration
Mount Wilson Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
ESA/NOAO/AURA
NASA/JPL/Caltech
Springfield Telescope Makers
Manchester Astronomical Society
Vanderbilt University Archives
New York University Archives
Mary Lea Shane Archives, University of California, Santa Cruz
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Harvard College Observatory Archives
The Herschel Museum of Astronomy
Science & Society Picture Library
David Malin Images
Birr Castle Demesne
WQAM Radio
NFL Films
Production Associates
Tami Flores
Perrin Gurel
Terra Weikel
Interns
Susanne McDowell
Sonya Grayson
Kathleen Manis
Donna April Chua Sy
Jack Winton
Personal Assistant to Timothy Ferris
Jessica Harris
Typography Design
Urban Digital Color
Troy Peters & Griff Williams
Digital Photo Processing
Francis Kenny
Timothy Ferris
Dana Smith
Jesse Dylan
Priscilla Cohen
Jeffrey Martin
Joshua Falcon
Ko Maruyama
Steve Toyama
Production Manager
Joanne Shen
Post-Production Supervisor
Pamela Esterson
HD Post-Production
HD Online Editors
Jonathan Vargo
Jesse Spencer
Lead VFX Artist
Ben Kopman
VFX Artists
Steffen Frech
Mark Singles
Post-Production Consultant
David O. Weissman
Digital Titling/Color Timing
Sunset Digital
Studio Recording Artists
Tom Disher
Emmett Corman
Paul Zahnley, C.A.S.
Narration Producer
Walter Murch, C.A.S.
Educational Outreach Director
Andrew Fraknoi
Website Design
kapow, inc.
Executive Producers
Timothy Ferris
Cal Zecca
This program was produced by ClockDrive Productions,
which is solely responsible for its content.
©ClockDrive Productions 2007. All rights reserved.
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