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A Daring Flight homepage

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Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Katie Caldwell, Interactive Designer
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Associate Editor
David Levin, Editorial Assistant
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Sonali Patel, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks
Henry Holden, Women in Aviation Resource Center

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A Daring Flight homepage
Photos: (Blériot in flight) © WGBH/NOVA; (archival image) Courtesy of Louis Blériot

A Soaring Obsession
Photos: (Louis Blériot, Blériot XI in color, Blériot crashing, floating in water) © WGBH/NOVA; (1908 crash, Blériot with plane, parade) Courtesy of Louis Blériot

Queen of the Channel Crossing
Photos: (Quimby in cockpit front view, Quimby on shoulders, Blériot crash) Library of Congress; (Quimby with propeller, climbing into cockpit, in cockpit side view) © Corbis Images

Tour a Blériot XI
All images and audio © WGBH/NOVA

Too Much Imagination
All images courtesy of Louis Blériot

TV Program Description
Photo: (Blériot crossing channel) Courtesy of Louis Blériot

 

Narrated by
David Ogden Stiers

Written, Produced and Directed by
Carl Charlson

Associate Producer
Jackie Mow

Editor
William Lattanzi

Camera
Chris Hooke
Eric Turpin
Boyd Estus

Sound Recording
Laurent Herniaux, Virtuel Audio
John Cameron

Assistant Camera
Mathieu Bastid
Jean Marc Ferriere
Stephanie Ryan


French Production Team

Producers
Arnaud Hauntute
Laurent Mini

Director
Christian Cascio

Associate Producer
Helene Ferrandi

Production Assistant
Mariela Zivanovic

Research Assistant
Valerie Combard


Music
The Brian Keane Music Group

Additional Music
Editions Durand
Editions Salabert
Editions Jobert
Barclay
Denon Records/Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd.
Naxos of America

Animation
Dan Nutu
Maxon Computer, Inc.

Audio Mix
Heart Punch Studio

Colorist
Greg Dildine

Archival Material
Musee de L'Air et de L'Espace
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Roger Viollet
London Daily Mail
International Herald Tribune
Cradle of Aviation Museum
Wright State University Libraries
Aeroclub de France
Culver Pictures, Inc.
The Roger Richman Agency
Wyoming State University
Louis Blériot
Grinberg Film Libraries, Inc.
Image Bank
Giancarlo Zanardo
John E. Allen, Inc.
Archive Films
Association Freres Lumiere
The WPA Film Library
Gaumont
Pathe

Special Thanks
John Feulner, Library of Congress
David Mindell, MIT

 

NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

Post Production Online Editor
Spencer Gentry

NOVA Administrator
Dara Bourne

Publicity
Jonathan Renes
Diane Buxton
Olivia Wong

Senior Researcher
Barbara Moran

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Manager
Lola Norman-Salako

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Patrick Carey

Associate Producer, Post Production
Nathan Gunner

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Maureen Barden Lynch

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

  

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