Full Credits
REALIZATION PICTURES presents
In association with
K2 PICTURES and ARK MEDIA
Executive Producers
SALLY JO FIFER
LOIS VOSSEN
LESLIE FIELDS-CRUZ
Executive Producers
TONY DECANEAS
ERIC MEOLA
ROBERT F. KATZ
PHILIP W. HACK
Producer
LISE YASUI
Produced and directed by PHIL BERTELSEN
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF ST. CLAIR BOURNE
A Film by Phil Bertelsen
Edited by
PAULA HEREDIA and BRYAN GUNNAR COLE
Original Score
ERIN O’HARA
Directors of Photography
JERRY HENRY
AARON BAGGETT
KEITH WALKER
Supervising Producer
MICHAEL KINOMOTO
Consulting Producer
NOLAND WALKER
Additional Original Compositions
JOEL THOMPSON
SUMI TONOOKA
Music Clearances
JEANNE FOX
Additional Camera
GREG BRUTUS
CLIFF CHARLES
THOMAS KAUFMAN
TOMMY MADDOX
MARK PETER McKNIGHT
ROBERT SHEPARD
BRADFORD YOUNG
Assistant Camera
JORDAN DANELZ
ALLEN DOBBINS
JACOB GEYER
THEODORE GOBLE
JOEL JUAREZ
AARON McKNIGHT
Gaffers and Grips
ANDY ALLMENDINGER
LUC BONNESON
PATRICK DURKIN
DAN SOTAK
Location Sound Recordists
ANDY BLACK
JARED CALLAN
TAYLOR DELPH
MIKE FILOSA
SAM KASHEFI
MICHAEL McQUEEN
BRANDON ROBERTSON
FRANK TONHAZY
Production Coordinators
NICKI NEWBURGER
TODD HOELLERMAN
Production Assistants
ISAAC BUSHNELL
ALEX CAHANAP
ALISON CRISCOE
CAMILLE ESTACIO
JOSHUA MAYFIELD
Production Associate
THEODORE CALEB HAAS
Second Unit
BRYAN COLE, Director
MARK McKNIGHT, DP
JOHN ABROMOWSKI, Production Design
CHINA COOPER, Actor
DARRELL THOMAS, Actor
Additional Editing
KATHRYN BARNIER
ED BARTESKI, JR.
ELI BROWN
ALEX CLARK
KIM MIILLE
ANN TEGNELL
Associate Editors
RACHEL CRAW
DAHLIA FISCHBEIN
SAM SALVODON
Research and Photo Curator
LISE YASUI
Archival Producer
KENN RABIN
Archival Assistant
ANET HERSHEY-FORBES
Archivists
BECCA BENDER
CONNOR SCANLON
WYATT STONE
EMILY YELLIN
Photographic Preservation
MICHAEL WILLIAMS & RICHARD CAHAN
ERIC MEOLA
Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics
EDGEWORX STUDIOS
Digital Media Conversions
PRESERVE SOUTH
Post Production Producer
ALEX LAVIOLA
Colorist
CHRIS RAMEY
Compositor
EUGENE LEHNERT
Supervising Sound Editor
JEFF SEELYE
Re-recording Mixer
TOM EFINGER
Sound Editing
JEFF HINTON & EMMETT CEGLIA
Consulting Producer
JAKE PERLIN
Historical Consultants
ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN, Ph.D.
CHARLES McKINNEY, Ph.D.
Editorial Consultants
SAM POLLARD
RACHEL DRETZIN
BETSY WEST
Production Counsel
JONATHAN GRAY, ESQ.
Clearance Counsel
DALE NELSON, ESQ.
SARAH SCHWARZMAN, ESQ.
Accountant Services
DOMITA SATCHELL
MOSES AND SCHREIBER, LLP
Insurance Brokerage
TAYLOR & TAYLOR ASSOCIATES
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE AND STILLS PROVIDED BY
ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE * AP Archives * Debra Brittenum * Chamba Mediaworks * Bill Chapman * Tony Decaneas * FOX ARCHIVES/Fox Movietone News * GBH Archives * Thomas S. England/The Chronicle Collection/Getty Images * Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreel/Sherman Grinberg Library/Getty Images * Warner Bros. Studios/Warner Bros. Entertainment/Getty Images * Rev. L.O. Taylor Collection, Historic Films Archive * The History Makers * F. Jack Hurley * Kino Library * Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat research files, Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University * Betty Lawrence * Memphis Public Library * Eric Meola *
LIFE © 1968 Meredith Operations Corporation. All rights reserved. Reprinted from LIFE and published with the permission of Meredith Operations Corporations. * Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times/Redux * Rock 'n' Soul Audiovisual History Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution * Only The Ball Was White / Ken Solarz * “Ernest Withers Interview” courtesy True Story Pictures * Special Collections Dept. University of Memphis Libraries * © Fred Griffith – USA TODAY NETWORK * The Withers Family Trust * WHBQ-TV, Memphis * WKNO-TV, Memphis
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
ABC
APM Reports
The Commercial Appeal
CBS Evening News
CNN
JET Magazine
Photographs by Joseph Louw
Memphis Press Scimitar
Memphis World
National Archives and Records Administration
NBC
New York Times
PBS NewsHour
Tri-State Defender
UPI Radio
WGBH Forum Network/WGBH Educational Foundation
WREC Radio
FEATURED MUSIC
MEMPHIS TUESDAY and 2:30 AM FOR LISA
Written and Performed by Sumi Tonooka
Courtesy Sutono Music
PASS ME NOT, O GENTLE SAVIOR
Lyrics by Fanny Crosby
Music by William H. Doane
DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
(AIN’T GOING TO STUDY WAR NO MORE)
Traditional
JJ BLUESY SHUFFLE
Written and Performed by Jared Gutstadt and Jeff J. Jeudy
Courtesy of Jingle Punks Music
B-A-B-Y
Written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes
Performed by Carla Thomas
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
HAMPTON STOMP
Written by Lionel Hampton
Performed by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
SEVEN LAST WORDS OF THE UNARMED c. © 2014 Joel S.Thompson, Composer
Performed by the PRIZM Ensemble
Lecolion Washington, 2017 Director
Rod Vester, Conductor
TWO ROADS
Written by Valerie June Hockett
Performed by Valerie June
Courtesy of June Tunes Music, Inc.
Under License to Fantasy Records
Distributed by Concord
SPECIAL THANKS
BILL ADLER
BONESTEEL FILMS
ROBERT CAMPBELL
GERALD CHAUDRON
CHERYL FANION COTTON
RON CLAIBORNE
CLAYBORN TEMPLE, MEMPHIS
MIKE CODY
ROBERT COHEN
CROSSTOWN ARTS, MEMPHIS
DAVID J. GARROW
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
DOROTHY BUTLER GILLIAM
ERNEST GREEN
VINCE HUGHES
ROBERT JOHNSON
RENEE JONES-JEFFERY
TRACEY LEE KEMBLE
BRUCE KRAMER
VELESKA LIPFORD
DEE LOFTON
LOUIS MASSIAH
MOSES NEWSON
CHUCK O’BANNON
THE PRIZM ENSEMBLE
DEBI ROBERTSON
UNIV. OF WASHINGTON, MULTIMEDIA
PRODUCTION SERVICES
ANGELA WILLIAMSON
THE ENTIRE WITHERS FAMILY
FISCAL SPONSOR
SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER
FUNDING PROVIDED BY
The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Ford Foundation | JustFilms
The Philadelphia Foundation
John and Maryellen Riley
The Better Angels Society
ORIGINAL SERIES FUNDING PROVIDED BY
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
THE PICTURE TAKER is a co-production of Picture Taker, LLC, Realization Pictures, ITVS and Black Public Media with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB), in association with K2 Pictures and Ark Media.
This program was produced by Picture Taker, LLC which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2022, Picture Taker, LLC. All Rights Reserved.