Work on preparing this presentation was performed by the National Digital Library Program team in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (M/B/RS) at the Library of Congress: Karen Lund, Judi Hoffman, and Hussein Hassan; and Marc Dudley of the National Digital Library (NDL).
Motion picture title selection was performed by Judi Hoffman and Karen Lund. Sound recording title selection was performed by Karen Lund with the assistance of George Kipper and Sam Brylawski. Essays were researched and written by Karen Lund with editorial assistance from Judi Hoffman on the motion picture essays. Catalog records were created by Judi Hoffman. The sound recordings were digitized by Hussein Hassan.
The web page was designed by Andrea Greenwood.
The cylinder sound recordings were recorded by Glenn Sage of www.tinfoil.com; we thank him for his help.
Special thanks go to the following people for their assistance: Carl Fleischhauer, David Woodward, Glenn Ricci, Dominique Pickett, Melissa Levine, Jurretta Heckscher, Martha Anderson, and Tracey Salley of the National Digital Library; Gene DeAnna, David Francis, Patrick Loughney, Sam Brylawski, Brad McCoy, David Sager, Neil Gladd, James Wolf, Allan McConnell, Jerry Hatfield, Kim Tomadijoglou, and Ken Weissman of M/B/RS.
A special note of appreciation goes to Tracy North and Barbara Tenenbaum of the Hispanic Division for generously permitting us to link to their fine Spanish-American War web page and for their aid.
A note of gratitude is also extended for the impressive research performed by Charles Musser for several books on early motion pictures; these books proved invaluable during the research phase of this presentation.
The Berliner and Victor sound recordings appear in this presentation courtesy of BMG. The Columbia sound recordings appear courtesy of Sony.