Crew Bios


Sputnik Mania
A film by David Hoffman

Based on the Book
"Sputnik: The Shock of the Century"
by Paul Dickson

Directed by
David Hoffman

Edited by
John Vincent Barrett

Produced by
Eric Reid, David Hoffman, John Vincent Barrett

Written by
David Hoffman & Paul Dickson

Executive Producer
Jay Walker

Story told by
Liev Schreiber & Peter Thomas
Kirk Wolfinger

Film Consultant, Colleague & Friend
Pamela Meyer

Distribution Consultant
Lindsey Palatino

Script Coordinator
Zoë King

Cold War Historian
Joseph Ferrera

Assistant Producer
John Logsdon

Fact Checker
Alex Jones

Assistant Editor
Jason Beckwith

3D Animation
David Trounstine

Graphics & Titles
Shaun Varney

Sound Effects Editor
Rebecca Goldman  

Script Consultant
Shayle Kann

Web Communications
Participants
Gene Banucci
Jay Barbree
Paul Dickson
Susan Eisenhower
Tom Fleming
Eileen Galloway
Homer Hickam
Scott Hubbard
Sergei Khrushchev
Llewellyn King
Robert Klein
John Logsdon
Mike Mullane
Doug Osheroff
Richard Rhodes
Roald Saagdev
Daniel Schorr
John Williams

Special Thanks To
Pierre Schwob
Bruce McCaw
Bonnie Dunbar
Thomas Dolby
Josh Braun of Submarine

Thanks to
Preston Boomer - HS Science teacher, Santa Cruz, CA
Neil Calder - SLAC, Stanford University
Dr. Vint Cerf - Founding Father of the Internet, Google Evangelist
Dr. Edna DeVore - Director, SETI
Dr. Sidney Drell- Arms Control Expert
Linda Hunt- CNN reporter
Dr. Dale Cruikshank- Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Andrei Linde- Physicist, Stanford University
Doug McAdam- Sociologist, Stanford University
Dr. David Morrison- Space Directorate, NASA-Ames Research Center
Dr. Burton Richter- Physicist, Stanford University
Pierre Schwob - Education Activist
Alan Ladwig- Senior Policy Analyst, NASA
Dr. Paul Lowman- Geophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center
Mark Shields- Political Analyst, Washington D.C.
Charles Shollenberger- Space Collector

David Hoffman would like to thank for their
physical & moral support during production
Heidi Hoffman
Kim Barrett
Eileen Walker
Jennifer Kurtley
Nancy Dickson
Henry Hoffman
Davey Hoffman
Jeanne Hoffman
Sarah Jessen
Caroline Hoffman
Bob Kann
Barak Kassar
Paul Katseff
Archival Support

Home Movie Footage of Nikita Khrushchev shot by Sergei Khruschev
A.R. Hogan - University of Maryland
Amy Axvig - ITN MovieSource
Colin A. Fries & John H. Hargenrader - NASA History Office
Donna Coates - Historical Photo Research Associates, Austin, TX
Fred MacDonald, MacDonald & Associates, Chicago, IL
Gayle & Joyce Riggsbee, Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club, Charlotte, NC
Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
Gerrit Penning & Neville Young, Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Jason Krieger, BBC Motion Gallery
Joy Conley, Media Research Associates, Silver Spring, MD
Mark Taylor, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Phil Gries -- Archival Television Audio, Inc, Albertson, NY
The staff at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Abilene, KS, particularly Kathy Struss & David J. Haight
Chad R Kreikemeier, The Eisenhower Institute
The staff at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, TX,
     particularly Sarah Haldeman & Margaret Harman
C. Allen Giles, UCLA Film & Video Archive
Chad Campbell, NPR Media Relations
Llewellyn King, White House Media
Bill Hickman
Jay Barbree Photo - Library of American Broadcasting, University of Maryland
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Tim Bono, Bono Labs
Robert Stone, The Satellite Sky
Maddie Madsen, 5 alarm music
Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks
Claire White, Sanctuary Group
The Museum Of Flight - Seattle, Washington

NASA
Steven J. Dick
Colin Fries, Archivist
John H. Hargenrader, Archivist

Voices  
Peter Thomas
'Dan Bernard
Tracy Casimiro
Alex Chuiko
Charley Darlin
Alex Endy
Denis Fontaine
Tavia Gilbert
Ron Giroux
Alex Gershenson
Lucy Gowan
Heeth Grantham
Bruce McCoy
Pam McCoy
Kate Moon
Ken Main
Evan Geist
Kojima Gray
William King
Michael Hutchins
Alam McLucas
Michael Nardello
Killian Pohl
Jed Rauscher
Jaimie Schwartz
Yarek Semich
Kenneth Topham
Randy Visser
Lisa Wolfinger
Kirk Wolfinger
Jameson Jendreas
Jake Beal
Ian Pugh
Jacob Saxon

Post Production Services
Roger Reid, Modern Videofilm
Westwind Media
Vince Sanchez, VSO Media
Irina Sanchez, Russian Translation

Music

"Rockin' Satellite"
written and performed by
Ray Sawyer

"Iguazu"
written and performed by
Gustavo Santaolalla
Courtesy Universal Music Group

Beep Beep (Here comes the satellite)
Written by
Hy Zaret and Lou Singer
Performed by
Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans

Additional music courtesy of
Ara Dinkjian
5 Alarm Music
Killer Tracks
Freeplay Music
Extreme Music
Thomas Dolby

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