For Influenza 1918
Produced and Directed by
Robert Kenner
Co-Producer
Alla Savranskaia
Written by
Ken Chowder
Editor
Alison Ellwood
Music
Mark Adler
Narrator
Linda Hunt
Cinematorgaphy
Don Lenzer
Paul Goldsmith
Nancy Schreiber
Steven W. Ross
Sound
John Secca
Bruce Perlman
Stock Footage and Photo Research
Helen Hood Scheer
Elizabeth Olsen
Assistant Camera
Jeff Victor
Stacey Cohen
Shana Hagan
Kit Kalionzes
Gaffer
John Priebe
Grip
Patrick Murphy
Art Director
Marguerite Kenner
Additional Photography
Buddy Squires
James Mulryan
Consultants
Dr. Alfred Crosby, author of America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
Dr. Carolyn Bridges, CDC
Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger, AFIP
Assistant Editors
Thomas Teltser
Helen Hood Scheer
Production Assistants
Diana De Cilio
Eric Guerin
Fred Pichel
Transcripts
Leigh Ryan
Laboratories
Fotokem
Yale Labs
Post Production Services
Matchframe
Colorist
Brian Hutchings
On-Line Editor
Craig Price
Sound Design/Mixing
Kent Gibson
Tom Mitchell
Vern Pershing
Motion Control Camera
Lars Bunch
Voices
Erwin Immerman
Marguerite Kenner
Producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of:
Dr. Nancy Cox, CDC
Columba Voltz
Michael Donohue
Suzanna Turner
Joan Givner
Jack Fincher
Tess Kenner
Nisa Schoonhoven
Alice and Rebecca Goldsmith
Ben and Sam Sisson
Mathew McGuire
Larry Hertzog
Maurice Rinaldi
DeMille Halliburton
Jack Green/U.S. Naval Historical Center
Joseph Casino/ Phila. Archdiocesan Research Center
Isabelle Meyer/Doctor’s House, Glendale
Burbank Historical Society
Sara Funston
Anthony Damiano/Damiano’s restaurant, DelRey Beach, FL
Stock Footage Courtesy of:
Film/Audio Services
National Archives
John E. Allen, Inc.
Archive Films
University of South Carolina
Image Bank
Creative Television Associates
National Library of Medicine
Archives, The New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center
Photographs Courtesy of:
National Archives
Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA
National Museum of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Inst. of Pathology
Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection of Immigrant City Archives, Lawrence, Mass.
American Red Cross
Corbis-Bettman
U.S. Naval Historical Center
National Library of Medicine
Library of Congress
Indiana Historical Society
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh
Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Macon, GA
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Iowa State University, Ames
California Historical Society
Frank & Marie-Therese Wood Print Collection, Alexandria, Va.
Archives, The New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Manuscripts Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Utah State Historical Society
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
Archive Photo
Culver Pictures
Brown Brothers
Lincoln Library, Sangamon Valley Collection
Germantown Historical Society
University of Maryland at College Park Libraries, K. A. Porter Collection
Photo Researchers, Inc.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
The Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times
The Deseret News
The Chicago Tribune
For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Greg Shea
Series Designer
Alison Kennedy
On-Line Editors
Spencer Gentry
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
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