Credits
Edited by
Randall MacLowry
Written, Produced and Directed by
Sarah Colt
Associate Producer
Stephanie Mills
Narrator
Linda Hunt
Cinematography by
Stephen McCarthy
Music by
John Kusiak
P. Andrew Willis
Production Assistant
Helen Ryan
Assistant Editors
David LaCarubba
Owen Williams
Sound Recordists
George Shafnacker
Glenn Berkovitz
Additional Photography
Dustinn Craig
Camera Assistant
Dick Williams
Gaffer
Ken Perham
Key Grip
Chris Nickerson
Art Director
Amy Strong
Costume Designer
Rosa J. Colón
Fact Check
Karen Rowan
Accountant
Helen KC Yung
Research Assistant
Genevieve Wanucha
Interns
Kady Buchanan
David Brown Massey
Location Assistants
Kady Buchanan
Juliana Flores
Stoney M. Hays
Marc A. Hutchins
David Brown Massey
Keith Parish
Helen Ryan
Extras
Helen Blaschke
William Casta
Archival Researchers
Joy Conley, Media Research Associates, Inc.
Rachel Buchanan
Transcription
Johanna Kovitz
Karen Weitzel
Senior Consultant
David M. Oshinsky
Editorial Consultants
Bert Aldridge
Seth Bomse
Academic Advisor
Paul A. Offit, MD
On Camera Interviewees
Larry Becker
Kathryn Black, writer
Betty Cook Brown
Anne B. Crockett-Stark
John M. Johnson
Samuel L. Katz, scientist
Paul A. Offit, scientist
David M. Oshinsky, author, Polio
Eleanor Sage
Peter L. Salk, Salk’s son
John Troan, journalist
Eugene F. Warren
Julius Youngner, scientist, Salk’s lab
Locations
Hollins University
Marston House Museum
The Public Health Museum, Tewksbury
The Watson Institute
Trinkle Mansion Bed & Breakfast, Wytheville
University of Pittsburgh
Permissions
Images of Jonas Salk used with permission of the family of Jonas Salk
Archival Material
Anne B. Crockett-Stark
AP Images
Arthur Rothstein, photographs, LOOK Magazine
Atlanta Daily World
BBC Motion Gallery
Brian Gari
Charles T. Waters
Corbis
Deborah Sabin
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Edna Becker
Eleanor Sage
Family of Jonas Salk
Footage Farm Ltd.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Digital Archives
Getty Images
Haskett G. Waller
Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati Libraries
Jim Hansen, photographer, LOOK Magazine
John M. Johnson
Jonas Salk Papers, Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD
Kathryn Black
Lawrence C. Becker
Library of Congress
March of Dimes Foundation
National Archives and Records Administration
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
The Creative Company
The Washington Post
University Archives, University of Pittsburgh
WSAZ-TV Newsfilm Archive, Marshall University
Special Thanks
David W. Rose
Frank Vitale
Peter Coletta
Barbara Morgan Roberts
Beatrice Manz
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Buffy and Jim Colt
Cathy Culver Hively
Cathy Reynolds
Charlie and Dana Friday
Darran Fowler
Doris A. Haag
Eugene F. Warren
Michael D. Shadix
Noah Dephoure
Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
Russ Barbour
Sue Ellen Riddell
The Public Health Museum, Tewksbury
Thomas J. Boyd Museum, Wytheville
Based in part on the book, Polio, by David Oshinsky
For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
POST PRODUCTION
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Greg Shea
SERIES DESIGNER
Alison Kennedy
ON-LINE EDITOR
Spencer Gentry
SOUND MIX
John Jenkins
SERIES THEME
Charles Kuskin
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Nancy Sherman
LEGAL
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Maureen Jordan
Scott Kardel
PROJECT ADMINISTRATION
Kelsey Dorwart
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Laura Bowman
Jen Holmes
Patrick Ramirez
PROJECT MANAGER
Lauren Prestileo
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, NEW MEDIA
Molly Longstreth Jacobs
DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA
Maria Daniels
SENIOR EDITOR
Paul Taylor
SERIES PRODUCER
Susan Bellows
SERIES MANAGER
James E. Dunford
COORDINATING PRODUCER
Susan Mottau
SENIOR PRODUCER
Sharon Grimberg
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Mark Samels
A Sarah Colt Productions film for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
©2009 WGBH Educational Foundation
All Rights Reserved.
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