For Robert E. Lee
Written and Produced by
Mark Zwonitzer
Edited by
Bruce Shaw
Associate Producer
Hazel Gurland
Director of Photography
Michael Chin
Production Manager
Deborah Clancy Porfido
Music by
Joel Goodman
Narrated by
Michael Murphy
Voice of Robert E. Lee
Chris Sarandon
Voice of Mary Custis
Kara Jackson
Original Concept Developed by
Paul Taylor
Director of Recreations
Jamila Wignot
Assistant Director
Mark Kaufmann
Production Coordinator
Timothy Messler
Additional Research
Rob Rapley
Production Designer
Akeime Mitterlehner
Prop Master
Kirk Graves
Art Director
R. Mark Hughes
Set Dresser
Jeremiah Hornbaker
Art Production Assistant
Ann-Ruffin Minarik
Assistant Camera
Jonathan Weaver
Paul Marbury
John Romeo
Additional Photography
Gregory Andracke
Sound
Benjamin Clore
Sara Chin
Shayne Parden
JT Takagi
Gaffers
Marc Labbate
Todd Ranson
Travis Tomlinson
Key Grip
Josh Cross
Best Boy Electric
Robert Spencer
Best Boy Grip
Tim Wicks
Electric
Hektor Stockton
Grips
Charles Bevan
Andrew Eckmann
Motion Graphics
Bruce Shaw
Map Animation
Aaron Nee
Newspaper Animation
Alisa Placas Frutman
Production Illustrator
John Sicoransa
On-Line Editor/Colorist
Martin Benn
Film Lab/Telecine
PostWorks New York
Voice-Over Recording
Jim Briggs III
Gramercy Post
Voice-Over Casting
JWS Entertainment
Supervising Sound Editor
Coll Anderson M.P.S.E.
Sound Effects Editor
Matt Snedecor
Dialogue Editor
Jim Briggs III
Assistant Sound Editor
John Chiarolanzio
Re-Recording Mixer
Coll Anderson M.P.S.E.
Post-Production Sound Services
C.A. Sound, Inc.
Music Editor
Kevin Bluhm
Music Mix Engineer
John Rodd
Musicians
Philip Vaiman
Anatoly Rosinsky
John Wittenberg
Andrew Shulman
Peggy Baldwin
Diego Mirrales
Richard Todd
Location Manager
Tom Trigo
Location Production Assistants
Jon Allen
Eric Eaton
Jacob Pooler
Craft Services Personnel
Jane Sakowski Bell
Caterers
Brandi's Catering
David Napier's White House Catering
Locations
Arlington House, Robert E. Lee Memorial
Berkeley Plantation LP, LLP
City of Fredericksburg, Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of General Services
Kensington Bed & Breakfast
Lee Medical Building
Richmond Battlefield Park, Malvern Hill
Senate of Virginia
SoHo Soleil Locations, LLC / Home Sweet Site
Stewart - Lee House
United States Military Academy, West Point
Virginia House of Delegates
Westover Plantation, LLC
Transcriber
Colleen Sackheim
Production Interns
Jessica Barbosa
Robert Barnett
Tiffany Hagger
Wesley Hevia
Gratianne Quade
Archival Material Courtesy of
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria, Virginia
Corbis
Dementi Studio
David Fortney / Getty Images
The Time Lapse Company / Getty Images
Gettysburg Foundation / Bill Dowling
Historical Society of Frederick County, Maryland
Independence National Historical Park
International Center of Photography, Gift of Daniel Cowin, 1990
Library of Congress
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
National Archives
North Wind Picture Archives
The New York Public Library
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Stratford Hall, Robert E. Lee Memorial Association
U.S. Army History Institute
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary / University of Georgia Libraries
Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas
Cook Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Washington-Custis-Lee Collection, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Special Collections, United States Military Academy, West Point
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Zimmer Family Trust
Special Thanks
David Black
Maria Capozzi
Katie Gardner
Linda Hughes
Malcolm E. Jamieson
Leon & Rhoda Litwack
Lisa McCown
Gretchen Goodell
Ellen M. Martin, Art Photographer
Tammy Radcliff
Rob Rapley
Bertie & Bill Selvey
Drury Wellford
For American Experience
Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Greg Shea
Series Designer
Alison Kennedy
On-Line Editors
Spencer Gentry
Sound Mix
John Jenkins
Production Manager
Nancy Sherman
Web
Molly Jacobs
Tory Starr
Legal
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Maureen Jordan
Scott Kardel
Project Administration
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano
Patricia Yusah
Marketing and Communications
Lauren Noyes
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
An Apograph Productions Inc. Film for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
(c) 2011
WGBH Educational Foundation
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