American Experience

For Hoover Dam

Written, Produced and Directed by
Stephen Stept

Narrator
Peter Coyote

Co-Producer
John Heus

Editor
John J. Martin

Cinematography
Jon Else

Original Music
Tom Phillips

Additional Cinematography
Christopher Beaver
Edward Marritz
Dyanna Taylor

Location Sound
Stephen Longstreth
Judy Irving
Michael Becker
Mark Mandler

Production Coordinator
Jenni Matz

Researchers
Dennis McBride
Martha Olsen
Bonnie Rowan

Assistant Camera
Paul Marbury
Ulli Bonnekamp
John Choi

Assistant Editors
David B. Mooney
Jenni Matz

Historical Consultants
Joseph E. Stevens
Dennis McBride
David M. Kennedy

Photo Animation
Ralph Pitrie
Broadway Video

Map Animation
MaGiK Films

Photomontage
Russell Steward

Sound Editor
Tony Slocum
Sync Sound

Re-recording
Michael Ruschak
Sync Sound

On Line Editor
John Fordham
Teatown Video

Digital Color Correction
Jed Duryea

Film Processing/Telecine
Medallion/PFA

Production Assistants
Colby Bryan
Heidi Bahnck
Erik Barnes

Production Interns
Amanda Libman
Carly La Pierre

Archival Footage
AirWave Productions
Archive Films
Bechtel Corporation
Don Briggs
Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region
Camera One
Jon Else
Emery Kolb Collection, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Film/Audio Services, Inc.
Imperial Irrigation District
Grinberg Film Libraries, Inc.
Hot Shots/Cool Cuts
Image Bank
Diane Lee
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Metropolitan Water District
National Archives and Records Administration
Producers Library Service
Reel Orange Films
UCLA Film & Television Archive
UNLV Special Collections
U.S. Geological Survey

Archival Photographs and Graphics
Bechtel Corporation
Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum
Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region
W. A. Davis
Folger Library, University of Maine, Orono
Herbert Hoover Library
Imperial County Historical Society
Pat Jacobsen
Kaiser Collection courtesy of The Bancroft Library
Library of Congress
Dennis McBride
National Archives and Records Administration
National Archives – Rocky Mountain Region
Tommy Nelson
Nevada State Museum and Historical Society
Joseph E. Stevens
Tamiment Library, New York University
Union Pacific Museum Collection
UNLV Special Collections

Songs
“Moonlight on the Colorado”
Written by Billy Moll and Robert King
© Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc.
Performed by Riley Puckett and Red Jones
Courtesy of MCA Records under license from Universal Music Special Markets

APM Music

Special Thanks
Department of the Interior, B.O.R., Hoover Dam
Joyce Larkin
Emme Woodward
Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region
Kelly Conner
Bob Walsh
Arnold’s Archives
Blowback Productions
Lynn Bogdan
Country Music Foundation
Sonia Daccarret
Joerg Groessler
James Hester
Joan Howard
Delmas Howe
Jagger
Pat Lapin
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
William Grant
Art Lukach
Peter Michel
Pam Oakes
Trip Payne, Scene Three, Inc.
Mimi Rodden
Dawn Marcus Stept
Britt Storey
Marie Sullivan
Kathy War

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

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

A Firstlight Pictures film
for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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All rights reserved.