For Fatal Flood
Produced, Directed, and Written by
Chana Gazit
Co-directed and Edited by
David Steward
Music by
Michael Bacon
Senior Creative Consultant
Paul Taylor
Based in part on
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
By John M. Barry
Narrated by
Liev Schreiber
Cinematography
Joel Shapiro
Terry Hopkins
James Callanan
Associate Producer
Jennifer Raikes
Production Coordinator/ Researcher
Amy Brown
Archival Research
Joy Conley
Stacey Barnett
Sound Recording
Bernard Russo
Gaffer
Ty Coke
Grip
Michael Cruickshank
Assistant Camera
William McCullough
Re-recording Mixer
Michael Ruschak
Sync sound
Colorist
Jim Dalglish
Tape House
Motion Effects
Russell Steward
Photo-Animation
Glen Schauer
Mark Posillico
Broadway Video
Video Post-Production
Alvin Bowens
Frame:runner
Recreations filmed at:
Montgomery Place
Washington County Courthouse
Marshall County Courthouse
Immanuel Church
Interviews filmed at:
Belmont Plantation House
Junior League House
Community Foundation Center
Lowenstein-Long House
Stokes Residence
Archival Film
John E. Allen
America By Air
Archive Films
Energy Films
Sherman Grinberg
Historic Films
Home Box Office
Herbert Hoover Library
Hot Shots/ Cool Cuts
National Archives
Stormstock/Prairie Pictures
UCLA Film Library
University of South Carolina
WPA Film Library
WQAD
Archival Photos
Corbis
Herbert Hoover Library
Library of Congress
Mississippi Levee Board
Mississippi Department of Archives & History
National Archives
U.S. Corps of Army Engineers
W.A. Percy Library
Excerpts from Lanterns on the Levee
By William Alexander Percy
Used by permission of LSU Press
Special Thanks to
Bill Seratt
Jerome & Jo Cille Hafter
Hugh & Mary McCormack
Greenville Inn and Suites
Maya Steward
Betty Gazit
Creative Consultant
Andrew Ward
Advisors
John Barry
James C. Cobb
Margaret Washington
Controller
Kelley A. Totter
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
Marketing and Publicity
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 Stward/Gazit Productions, Inc. film for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
(c) 2001
WGBH Educational Foundation
All rights reserved
My American Experience
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