Credits
Directed by David Shields
A SMOKIE FILMS PRODUCTION
Written by David Shields and James Nugent
Story consultation by Robin Hemley
Produced by David Shields, Erik Sather, Robin Hemley, & Nicole Walker
Narrated by: Elena Passarello
Phoenix interviews filmed by: Erik Sather
Edited by James Nugent
Additional editing by Erik Sather and Kevin Teeter
Motion graphics and video collage by James Nugent
Music by James Nugent
Research by Elizabeth Cooperman, Scott Kent Jones, James Nugent, David Shields, & Kevin Teeter
Phoenix street footage filmed by Sally Ball & Celia McNally
NonfictioNOW interviews filmed November 1-3, 2018, in Phoenix
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Phoenix interviewees
(in order of appearance)
Raquel Denis
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Paul Lisicky
Kim Adrian
Jericho Parms
S.L. Wisenberg
Lawrence Ypil
Dinty W. Moore
Mary Cappello
XU XI 許素細
José Orduña
Kristen Elias Rowley
Ira Sukrungruang
Paisley Rekdal
Brian Bouldrey
Julija Šukys
David Carlin
Ander Monson
Joey Franklin
Jacqueline Aguilar
Steven Church
Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
Susanne Paola Antonetta
James Lough
Michael Steinberg
Dave Mondy
Desirae Matherly
Clinton Crockett Peters
Leila Philip
Melissa Chadburn
Barrie Jean Borich
Sarah Minor
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Elissa Washuta
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Two Truths and a Lie video contributors
(in order of appearance)
Charles Mudede
Karin Jones
Charles Douthat
Megan Staffel
Elena Passarello
Steve Amick
Rachel Starnes
Joe Wenderoth
Mary Cappello
Bert Ashe
Pamela Houston
Cody Walker
Amitava Kumar
Garnett Kilberg Cohen
Matthew Zapruder
Nick Toti
Nellie Bridge
Edie Meidav
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Title design by James Nugent
Post Production assistance by Danielle Palmer-Friedman & Kevin Teeter
Sound mixed at Bad Animals, Seattle
Color correction at Victory Studios, Seattle
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Archival footage and image sources
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
The British Library
Duke University Libraries (via the Internet Archive)
Europeana.eu
Getty Research Institute
The Internet Archive
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine
Pexels.com
Prelinger Archives
The Public Domain Review
Pxfuel.com
Rawpixel.com
Skyscraper.org
Smithsonian Open Access Media
Storyblocks.com
U.S. National Library of Medicine
University of Leeds Library
Unsplash.com
Wikimedia Commons
(For more information on image sources, see below.)
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“My Status is Blue”
Written by James Nugent
Performed by Berkeley Pit
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Thank you
Robert Clarida
Elizabeth Cooperman
Ben Erickson
Pierre Ferguson
Steve Hawes
Kevin Higinbotham
Scott Kent Jones
Tiffany Louquet
Lynn Onstad
Elena Passarello
Eric Piippo
Lucy Smith
Laurie Stone (“Never explain, never apologize, never ask for love”)
Kevin Teeter
Mike Watt
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The Oslo PDP-7, before restoration started.
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1989 Emmy Awards
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Illustration of Mediated Reality for the John Wiley textbook Intelligent Image Processing. I bought an easel at a Toronto based arts supply store and put a television display ("Apple Studio Monitor") on the easel and connected the TV display to a TV camera, and arranged it so that the view on the TV was a view of what would have been there in the absence of the TV.
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Official portrait of Alan Brown MP
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC - the world's largest and most powerful particle collider/accelerator) at CERN.
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