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Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer
201246 min 48 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Mila Aung-ThwinDaniel Cross
Production: Mila Aung-ThwinDaniel CrossBob MooreKirwan Cox
Script: Kirwan CoxMila Aung-Thwin
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Significant inventions tend to make their creators famous. Most people know
who invented the telephone, the light bulb, and the airplane. But what about
the digital computer? Who invented one of the most important devices in human
history?
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Subject categories
- Technology > Computer Technology, Internet and ElectronicsInventionPortraits
- Technology Education > Communications and Technology
- Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
- Media Education > Internet and Social Media
Credits
- writer
- Kirwan Cox
- Mila Aung-Thwin
- director
- Mila Aung-Thwin
- Daniel Cross
- producer
- Mila Aung-Thwin
- Daniel Cross
- executive producer
- Bob Moore
- co-producer
- Kirwan Cox
- director of photography
- Mark Ellam
- editor
- Omar Majeed
- Mila Aung-Thwin
- Edmund Duff
- original score
- The High Dials
- featuring
- John Vincent Atanasoff
- John Gustafson
- John Mauchly
- John Presper Eckert
- Charles G. Call
- Katherine Fishman
- Alice Atanasoff
- Harvey Bartles
- Steve Wozniack
- Jimmy Wales
- Vinton Cerf
- research
- Kirwan Cox
- Sandra Gathercole
- Athena Scotes
- Amanda Barrett
- Caitlin Cook-Isaacson
- production supervisor
- Daniela Flori
- props
- Halima Ouardiri
- Juliette Forster
- Gabriel Couture
- wardrobe
- Halima Ouardiri
- Juliette Forster
- Gabriel Couture
- casting
- Elite Casting
- camera operator
- Van Royko
- Barry Stone
- Zacharie Fay
- Azed Majeed
- script consultant
- Harold Crooks
- Dimitri Katatodis
- cast
- Yanick Hébert
- extra
- Richard Boyce
- Tony Asimakopoulos
- Bob Moore
- Zacharie Fay
- Jacob Logel
- Halima Ouardiri
- Edmund Duff
- supervising sound editor
- Cory Rizos
- recording mixer
- Cory Rizos
- narrator
- Brett Watson
- location sound recording
- Michael MK Siu
- Edmund Duff
- Mila Aung-Thwin
- Daniel Cross
- narration recording
- Benoît Leduc
- animation
- Darren Pasemko
- Kent Hugo
- storyboard
- Éléonore Goldberg
- additional animation
- Omar Majeed
- Robin Dianoux
- post-production
- Edmund Duff
- technical supervisor
- Edmund Duff
- Ryan Mullins
- colorist
- Éric Gaudry
- accounting
- Anuj Khosla
- production administrator
- Anuj Khosla
- tax credits consultant
- Valerie Shamash
- bookkeeping
- May Antaki
- logging
- Victor Arroyo
- Trevor Anderson
- Geneviève Danforth
- Mia Donovan
- Edmund Duff
- Dan Kirk
- transcription
- Victor Arroyo
- Trevor Anderson
- Geneviève Danforth
- Mia Donovan
- Edmund Duff
- Dan Kirk
- intern
- John Huddart
- Allegra Young
- Layla Lindquist
- archival research
- Elizabeth Klinck
- William A. Hunt
- Bonnie G. Rowan