For Franklin D. Roosevelt
Written And Produced By
David Grubin
Senior Producer
Chana Gazit
Edited By
Susan Fanshel
Contributing Editor
Geof Bartz
Narrated By
David McCullough
Music
Michael Bacon
Senior Associate Producer
Allyson Luchak
Cinematography
William B. McCullough
Roger Phenix
Field Audio
David Vos
Associate Producers
Sheilagh D'Arcy McGee
Meg Froelich
Post-Production Supervisor
Peter Stader
Assistant Editors
Peter Stader
Dena Mermelstein
Research Assistants
Jonathan Shoemaker
Megan Lukas
Production Assistant
Adam Schenck
Film Research
Hillary Dann
Thaxton Green Studios, Inc.
Susan Nickerson
Photo Research
Joy Conley
Sound Recording
Roger Phenix
Additional Research
David Grubin
Peter Allen Moore
Peter Hawkins
Aerial Photography
Allan Palmer
Assistant Camera
William Rexer
Anne-Marie Frendrick
Don Grissom
Larry Planet
Robert Sands
Dick Williams
Additional Sound Recording
Francis X. Coakley
Michael Longside
Richard Mader
John Murphy
Bruce Perlman
Bob Silvershorne
Gaffers
Scott Ramsey
Murdoch Campbell
Doug Wallick
Second Electrician
Damon Hennessey
Aerial Piolt
Al Cerullo
Location Assistants
Linda Patterson
Claudia Odyniec
Production Assistants
Bill Nye
David Meichsner
Bill Tomlin
Elizabeth Grubin
Post-Production Assistants
Robert Featherstone
Phillip Shane
Patricia Zey
Re-recording Mixer
Ken Hahn
Sync Sound
On-line Editor
Dale Boyce
Broadway Video
Colorist
James Dalgish
Duart Video
Photo Animation
Ralph Pitre
Broadway Video
Tim McCarthy
Ray Palagy
Regina Mullen
John Bowen
Sync Sound
Score Preparation
Paula Kimper
Special Thanks To:
Mark Renovitch
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Roosevelt/Vanderbilt National Historic Site
Groton School
Groton School Choir
Robert Hopkins
Archive Film Sources:
Archive Films, Inc.
Fox Movietonews
Sidney Glazier
Hearst Metrotone News
J. Fred MacDonald & Associates
Petrified Films, Inc.
Sherman Grinberg Film Libraries, Inc.
Mrs. Mary Belle Starr
UCLA Film and Television Archive
University of South Carolina
WPA Film Library
Archive Film Courtesy of:
National Archives and Records Administration
Sextant Inc.
The Trustees of Groton School
Archive Photo Sources:
AP/Wide World Photos
Archive Photos
Peter Arno cartoon / Patricia Arno,
used by permission
The Bettmann Archive
Birmingham Post-Herald
Margaret Bourke-White,
Life Magazine
Time Warner
The Dorothea Lange Collection,
The Oakland Museum
H.E. Homan reprinted
by permission of UFS, Inc.
Imperial War Museum
Keystone Press Agency, Inc.
Thomas McAvoy, Life Magazine,
Time Warner
Pach Brothers
Schomburg Center, New York Public Library
Elizabeth Shoumatoff Estate
The Sunday Times, London
Times Union, Albany, New York
UPI/Bettmann
The Washington Post
West Virginia and Regional History Collection
Archive Photos Courtesy Of:
Franklin D. Roosevel Library
Albany Public Library
Bachrach
Bethune Museum and Archives, Inc
H. Paul Bolstein
Dutchess County Historical Society
Susan Fanshel
Georgia Department of Archives and History
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Library of Congress
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Milwaukee Journal Photo
National Archives and Records Administration
National Park Service/Sagamore Hills NHS
New York Daily News
James V. Righter
Roosevelt/Vanderbilt National Historic Site
Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute
for Rehabilitation
Mary Taylor and Christine Taylor
The Trustees of Groton School
Archive Audio Sources:
BBC Sound Archives
CBS News Archives
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
WQED/Pittsburgh
Music
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
Written by Jack Yellen, Milton Ager
Rights administered by EMI Robbins Catalogue, Inc.
"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
Written by June Hershey, Don Swander
Melody Land Publications, Inc./
Peer International Corp.
"There's a Long, Long Trail"
Written by Alonzo Elliott, Stoddard King
Warner Bros. Inc.
on behalf of itself and West's Music
Rights Coordinator
Abigail Kende/Telecinema, Inc.
Production Executive
Dana Fox
Script Development/Editorial Consultant
Paul Taylor
Advisors
Alan Brinkley
Robert Dallek
William Leuchtenberg
Susan Ware
Creative Consultant
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Episodes One and Two based on Before the Trumpet and A First Class Temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward
Senior Creative Consultant
Geoffery C. Ward
For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Series Designer
Alison Kennedy
On-line Editor
Spencer Gentry
Sound Mix
John Jenkins
Production Manager
Nancy Sherman
Web
Molly Jacobs
Tory Starr
Legal
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Scott Kardel
Project Administration
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano
Lauren Noyes
Project Administration
Mary Lugo
Cara White
Project Manager
Lauren Prestileo
Series Manager
James E. Dunford
Coordinating Producer
Susan Mottau
Series Producer
Susan Bellows
Senior Producer
Sharon Grimberg
Executive Producer
Mark Samels
A David Grubin Productions, Inc. film for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
WGBH Educational Foundation and David Grubin Productions, Inc.
© 1994 All Rights Reserved.
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