This film was made possible by 

Foley Family Foundation
Elizabeth B. & Philip J. Hendrickson Foundation Ltd.
Helen Bader Foundation
Irene D. Kress

With additional support from  

Joseph and Sarah Van Drisse Charitable Trust
Northeastern Wisconsin Arts Council
City of Cincinnati
Nancy Armbrust 

narrator

Walter Cronkite

producer/director/writer

Melissa Godoy

executive producer

Eileen Littig 

associate producers

Matt Arnett
Jo Mellen 

research advisors

Janet Light
David Littig
Severo Ornstein
Edith Valentine

cinematographer

Mike Bizzarri

editors

Ben Bolton
Jeff Glaza

on-line editor

Brad Coop 

re-recording mixer

Austin Gorrigan 

additional photography

Mark Stucker
Bill Wallace
Ray Ibsen 

field recordists

Jeff Glaza
John McDaniel
Chris Younken 

recording engineers

Thomas Fleming
Roger Johnson
Thomas Myron

gaffers

Jeff Glaza
Tony Engelman
John Schmidt
David Ames 

production assistants

Harrell Bendolph
Price Blythe
Margaret LaCombe
Patrick Lux 

engineering

CET – Cincinnati Educational Television 

audio mix

Sonic Arts 

on-line mastering & color correction

On Location Multimedia

featuring 

Arlonzia Pettway
Frederic Franklin
Leo Ornstein
Dr. Gene Cohen
Lolo Sarnoff
Mary Lee Bendolph
Nettie Young
Pauline Ornstein
Vivian Perlis
Michael Broyles
Denise Von Glahn
Janine Tursini
Julia Burger
John Sausser
Quicksilver Senior Improv Dance Troupe
Arts for the Aging, Inc. (AFTA)
Beryl Carter Rice
Donal McLaughlin
Creativity Discovery Corps
Dmitri Trubchanov
Kristi Capps
Jay Goodlet
Rene Micheo
Anthony Krutzkamp
Aaron Thayer
Cincinnati Ballet 

choreography

George Balanchine
Léonide Massine
Victoria Morgan

ballet music

Sergei Prokofiev
Ludwig Van Beethoven

conductor

Carmon DeLeone

original music by

Leo Ornstein

pianist

Marc-André Hamelin

gospel music

Gee’s Bend Cooperative

fiddle

Anthony Hyatt

Population Reference Bureau

Toshiko Kaneda 

Boykin Nutrition Center

Lucy Mingo
Allie Pettway
Lola Pettway
Mandy Lane Pettway
Mary Pettway
Nancy Pettway
W.D. Pettway

Creativity Discovery Corps

Deborah Blum
Lauren Edelstein
Carly Fox
Karen Gallant
Nadir Hammons
Barbara Soniat
Patricia Villani

Quicksilver Dancers

Nancy Havlik
Gretchen Dunn
Alyse Leibelson
Dorothy Levy
Jenean McKay
Louisa Messolonghites
Luella Wells

Iona Senior Services Day Health Center

Jeannette Anderson
Edna Belew
Mary Dishman
Catherine English
Lucille Harrison
George Hawkins
Maurice Higgs
Isom Hunter
Rodger Johnson
Mary George Kronstadt
Mary Mallory
Benita Norris
Josephine Pizza
Earl Parker
Helen Reeves
Eugene Sampson
Ardath Shalett
Mary Varfis
Mary Wittlinger

The Washington Home

Harriet Atkin
Ruth Forman
Maria Halper
George Holton
Florence Howell
Patricia Steel

Center Care

Roy Barber
Shirley Bell
Clara Contee
Doris Dandridge
Beatrice Davis
Annie Lee Duckett
Minnie Henderson
Lee Ingram
Barbara Jackson
Mariah Jeter
Lessie Johnson
Helen Lewis
Maude Lewis
Reginald Locke
Bernice Page
Vance Torian
Ophelia Veney
Eloise Ware
Evandy White
Lular Williams 

Santa Maria Nursing Home

Helen Desotell

Photo of Arlonzia Pettway in Gallery

© 2005 Matt Arnett 

Quilts on a Line, Wilcox County

Photo by Edith Morgan
Courtesy of Tinwood Media and Herb & Marion Furman 

Photos of Gee’s Bend Quilts

Photographer Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
Courtesy of Tinwood Media
© 2006 Tinwood Media 

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, New York, ca. 1945

by Irving Penn © 1945 Irving Penn

Photo of Frederic Franklin in Scheherezade

by Walter E. Owen 

Photo of Frederic Franklin in A Streetcar Named Desire

by Marcus Blechman
Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York 

Photo of Frederic Franklin in Rodeo, Gaîté Parisienne, Night Shadow, and Seventh Symphony

by Maurice Seymour
Courtesy of Ron Seymour 

Gaîté Parisienne

Courtesy of Dance Film Archive 

George Balanchine

photo by Tanaquil Le Clercq
Courtesy of New York City Ballet Archives
BALANCHINE is a trademark of The George Balanchine Trust 

Abraham Ornstein portrait

by Leon Kroll, 1909 

Leo Ornstein-Piano Concert

by William Zorach, 1918, Photographer Jeffrey Sturges, Courtesy of William Bloom and the Portland Museum of Art 

Ornstein scores

courtesy of Poon Hill Press, Severo Ornstein

Vivian Perlis Interview of Leo Ornstein, 1977

Courtesy of Oral History, American Music, Yale University 

Georgia O'Keeffe, Sky Above Clouds IV, 1965

Restricted gift of the Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum Foundation; gift of Georgia O'Keeffe, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago

Georgia O’Keeffe

photo by Arnold Newman, 1968 

additional archival images

Artbeats
Getty Images
The Juilliard School
La Guardia and Wagner Archives
Library of Congress
Oral History, American Music, Yale University
Edith Valentine
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 

pre-recorded music

“Sinner Don’t You Know”
written and performed by Robert Pete Williams
from the album “When a Man Takes the Blues” Published by TRADITION MUSIC (BMI) administered by Bug Music, Inc. (p) 1998 Arhoolie Records arhoolie.com

“How We Got Over”
Performed by The White Rose, led by Leola Pettway
Produced by Matt Arnett & Vanessa Vadim
Engineer Steve Grauberger
© 2002 Tinwood Media 

“I Just Can’t Keep From Crying”
Performed by Seebell Kennedy
Recorded by Robert Sonkin, 1941
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
From the album How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee’s Bend
© 2002 Tinwood Media 

“Oh Lord, Have Mercy”
Led by Jessie T. Pettway, with Isabella Pettway Patton and Paulette Pettway.
Produced by Matt Arnett & Vanessa Vadim
Engineer Steve Grauberger
© 2002 Tinwood Media 

“It’s Gonna Rain”
Led by Creola B. Pettway, with Georgiana B. Pettway and Arlonzia Pettway
Produced by Matt Arnett & Vanessa Vadim
Engineer Steve Grauberger
© 2002 Tinwood Media 

special thanks to

 Andrew Smith Gallery
Martha Arendt
William Arnett
William Ausman 
The George Balanchine Foundation
Judy Barlow
Steven Bognar
CBS
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati World Cinema
CET
Chip Cronkite
Thomas Davison
Susan Eiswerth
Taylor Feltner
Stephen M. Fisher
Chris Funkhouser
Georgia O’Keefe Museum
Ismael, Nikko & Ricardo Godoy
Carolyn Gutjahr
Andrea Hanson
Grace Hill
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
John Mueller
National Center for Creative Aging
Arnold Newman
Penn State Public Broadcasting
Susan Perlstein
Helen Ramon
Julia Reichert
Timothy Swallow
Tinwood Media
Andrea Torrice
Annie Mae Young

thanks to 

Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati
Reina Aktay
Arketype
Bob Atchison
Gayle Berens
John Boland
Stephen Bonadies
Peter Breznay
Melissa Brown
Otto M. Budig, Jr.
Gerard Caracciolo
Ellen Carnevale
Devon Carney
Patsy Carruthers
Gary Caruana
Jesse Aaron Cohen
Carol Conway-Gerhardt
Jeni Dahmus
Pat Darnick
Douglas Di Carlo
Jack Dominic
Karen Durgans
Matthew Gingrich
Barbara Goldstein
Thyra Hartshorn
Carrie Haslett
Heather Heckman
Scott Hisey
Susan Howarth
Linda Jacobsen
Jen Judge
James Kesner 
Daniel Konop
Chai Lee
Jesse Legon
Joan Lewis
Judy Lopez
Suzanne Eggleston Lovejoy
Aimee Marshall
Therese Anne Matthews
Erin Maxson
Deanna McBrearty
Leigh Montville
Jody Mullen
Paula Nesoff
Carol J. Oja
David Pettway
Alison Quigley
Nancy Reynolds
Melody Sawyer Richardson
Melissa Smey
Kristin Spangenberg
George Steel
Mary Sturk
Dean Thomas
Margaret Thomas
Ken Williamson
Johanna Bernstein Wilt 

This film was made possible by

 Foley Family Foundation
Elizabeth B. & Philip J. Hendrickson Foundation Ltd.
Helen Bader Foundation
Irene D. Kress 

With additional support from 

Joseph and Sarah Van Drisse Charitable Trust
Northeastern Wisconsin Arts Council
City of Cincinnati
Nancy Armbrust

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