American Experience

For The Crash of 1929

Produced By
Ellen Hovde
Muffie Meyer

Writer
Ronald H. Blumer

Editor
Alison Ellwood

Director of Photography
Alicia Weber

Associate Producer
Susan Kipp

Narrator
Philip Bosco

Archival Footage Research
Linda Lilienfeld
Ken Cottrill
Tom Puchniak
Robert Summers

Photo Research
Elizabeth Bird
Leslie Gifford

Music Consultant
Joe Lauro

Additional Photography
Nancy Schreiber
Jean De Segonzac
Joseph Vitagliano

Sound Recording
Petur Hliddal
Michael Lonsdale
Roger Phenix
Lisa Schnall
Merce Williams
Reiner Wunderlich

Production Manager
John D. Fuller
Nancy Stone

Assistant Editor
Susan Kipp

Assistant Camera
Liz Dory
Barbara Hanania
Samuel Henriques
Tom Yatsko

Gaffers
Joe Arcidiancono
Ned Hallick
Al Phox
Mark Schwentner
Joel Unangst

Production Assistants
Marshall Arbitman
Tara Delson

Advisors
Alan Brinkley, Historian
William K. Klingaman, Author, 1929, The Year of the Great Crash

Re-Recording Engineer
Regina Mullen

Production Auditor
Michelle Holt

Archival Material Courtesy of
AIMS Media, Inc.
Associate Researchers
AT&T
Film Audio Services
Fred Foss Collections
Getty Images
ITN Source
John E. Allen
Killiam Shows
Laurie Kahn Leavitt/Dan F. Kahn
M.A. Ivey
National Archives Trust Fund Board
The National Geographic Society
National Public Archives of Canada
Oregon Historical Society Film Archives
Petrified Films, Inc.
SPPN Images
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Universal Studios Licensing LLLP
The University of South Carolina Newsfilm Library
Visnews Library

Graphic Artist
Peter Hine

Photographs Courtesy of
Aiklee
Anthony Lanza
Aristo Scrobogna
AP Images
Babson College Archives
Bettmann/Corbis
Brown Brothers
Carnegie Hall Archives
Charles E. Mitchell Family
Citicorp
Culver Pictures
The Forbes Archives, All Rights Reserved, Copyright © 1930 by Forbes, Inc., Used by Permission, All Rights Reserved
GMI Alumni Foundation College of Industrial History, Flint, Michigan
Harvard Business School, Baker Library, Special Collections
Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Library of Congress
M.J. Meehan Family
Museum of American Financial History
National Archives
New York City Department of Transportation
New York Public Library, Special Collections
New York Daily News
NYT Pictures
Paul Wesolowski, The Freedonia Gazette
Philosophical Research Society
R.G. Potter Collection, University of Louisville, Photographic Archives
The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Publications

Drawings by Gluyas Williams, © 1926, 1954, 1982 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., By Special Permission, All Rights Reserved

Drawing by Mary Petty, © 1929, 1957, 1985 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., By Special Permission, All Rights Reserved

Special Thanks To
Hon. Benoit D’Aboville, Consul General of France
Joyce Compton
James Kaplan
King Karol Records
Rod Klein & Wall Street Books
Terence S. Meehan
M.J. Meehan & Co.
J.P. Morgan & Co.
NASDAQ, Inc.
Jeffrey Potter
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Estelle and Liz Roberts
Julie Salomon
Paul Sarnoff
Barbara Shapiro
University Settlement
Bruce Watson
Barbara S. Ziegler

For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Greg Shea

Series Designer
Alison Kennedy

On-Line Editor
Mark Steele

Sound Mix
John Jenkins

Production Manager
Nancy Sherman

Associate Producer, Web
Molly Jacobs

Legal
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Maureen Jordan
Scott Kardel

Project Administration
Kelsey Dorwart
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano

Marketing and Communications
Sean Cleary
Jen Holmes
Patrick Ramirez

Project Manager
Lauren Prestileo

Series Manager
James E. Dunford

Coordinating Producer
Susan Mottau

Senior Editor
Paul Taylor

Series Producer
Susan Bellows

Senior Producer
Sharon Grimberg

Executive Producer
Mark Samels

A MIDDLEMARCH FILMS Production for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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