American Experience

Film Credits

Written, Produced and Directed by
Kirk Simon & Karen Goodman

Editor
Bruce Shaw

Cinematography
Buddy Squires

Music
Richard Einhorn

Consulting Producer
Morgan Wesson

Associate Producers
Elizabeth Westrate
Nancy Graydon Roach

Production Coordinator
Lorri Leighton

Post-Production Supervisor
Joseph Borruso

Additional Photography
Greg Andracke
Terry Hopkins
Rick Miranda
Jerry Pantzer
Michael Spiller
Kirk Simon

Rerecording Mixer
Rick Dior

Script Consultants
Jim Butler
Morgan Wesson

Project Advisors
Kenneth Lipartito
Claude S. Fischer

Narrated By
Morley Safer

Voices
Spalding Gray
Julianne Moore
Kurt Vonnegut
Frank Whaley

Special Thanks
Sheldon Hochheiser
Janet Gromigo
Downtown Fairfax Coalition
Mary Anne Stets
Elliot Sivowitch
Tom Hutchinson
Marian Early
Telephone Pioneers of America
Cynthia L. Hadsell
David Ludlow
Wilmington & Western Railroad
Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad
Tony Minichillo
Alderic Violette
Beverly Zell
Hancock Shaker Museum
Georgia Agrirama
Tommy Smith
Alison Moore
Herb Hackenberg
Don Capehart
Ric Burns

Archival Material Courtesy of:

AT&T Archives
Bell Canada Telephone Historical Collection
Bell Collection/National Geographic Image Collection
The Boston Globe
The Bostonian Society/Old State House
Cadbury Schweppes Inc.
3C Capehart Communications Collection
Corbis/Bettmann
Frontier Corporation
George Eastman House
Georgia Rural Telephone Museum
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center,
Fremont, Ohio
H.J. Heinz Company
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
La Porte County Historical Society Museum
Library of Congress
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Independent Telephony
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., Rosenfeld Collection, Mystic, Connecticut
National Archives
New England Telephone Museum
The New York Times
Pacific Bell Archives
Print and Picture Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia
Smithsonian Institution
Ellen Stern and Emily Gwathmey
Telecommunications History Group
Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain Project, Bancroft Library
Utah State Historical Society

Stock Footage Courtesy of:
John E. Allen, Inc.
Archive Films
A.R.I.Q.
George Eastman House
Film/Audio Services, Inc.
Hot Shots Cool Cuts, Inc.
Library of Congress
National Archives
Steeplechase Films
Streamline

Music Courtesy of:

Associated Production Music
H-Flat Records
Richard Einhorn/ASCAP


For
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Post Production Supervisor
FRANK CAPRIA

Post Production Assistant
REBECCA BARNES

Field Production
LARRY LeCAIN
BOB McCAUSLAND
CHAS NORTON

Series Designers
ALISON KENNEDY
CHRIS PULLMAN

Title Animation
SALVATORE RACITI
Wave, Inc.

On-line Editors
DAN WATSON
DOUG MARTIN

Series Theme
CHARLES KUSKIN

Series Theme Adaptation
MICHAEL BACON

Unit Manager
MARI LOU GRANGER

Project Administration
NANCY FARRELL
HELEN R. RUSSELL
ANN SCOTT

Publicity
DAPHNE B. NOYES
JOHANNA BAKER

Coordinating Producer
SUSAN MOTTAU

Series Editor
JOSEPH TOVARES

Executive Consultant
JUDY CRICHTON

Executive Producer
MARGARET DRAIN

A Simon & Goodman Picture Company production
for THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
is a production of WGBH/Boston.

Major funding for this series is provided by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Additional funding provided by
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and public television viewers.

Corporate funding is provided by
Scotts/Miracle-Gro.

©1997
WGBH Educational Foundation
All rights reserved