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Silver Wings & Civil Rights: the Fight To Silver Wings & Civil Rights: The Fight To Fly PRODUCTION CREDITS – COMPLETE LIST Written & Directed by JON ANDERSON Director of Photography COREY BESTEDER Produced & Edited by DAVID BRAME Camera Operators DAVID BRAME, BEN HALE, SEAN P. O’REILLY, JOANNA PERDUE & DAVID Executive Producers RALPH CLEMENTE SPALDING & CHUCK WEISE Assistant Camera ELISABET BLECK, SARAH Associate Producers GREGORY L. SPALDING NATOLI, ANDREA RENNARD & J.T. THIBAULT & RICK RIETVELD Camera Utility CHRIS McGONICAL, ROBERT Supervising Producer WILLIAM WHITACRE MROCZKOWSKI & AMBER RENEE MORRIS Original Music by KRISTI NEWMAN Video Assist MICHAEL “SKIP” SKIPPER Narrated by MARK DANIEL Production Stills TOM HAYES Produced in collaboration with the VALENCIA Gaffer KEVIN J. BURROUGHS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FILM PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM (Orlando, FL) Best Boy Electric TRENT T. DUNCAN Unit Production Manager MICHAEL J. 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Dora, FL), TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, INC. & THE VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FILM PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY CLASS OF 2004 Thanks also to DIANE BAYS, BRUCE FEINSTEIN, JOHN GAY, BOB HENDERSON, BILL HOLTON, KARLA INGBRETSEN, JOHN PITUCH, HANK SANFORD, LYNDA “SUNNY” SIMPSON, DR. 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