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About the Film
The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict™ is a one-hour television documentary of the untold stories about the history of the American flag. The film is a co-production of Film Police (Chicago, IL) and Fog Kist of Santa Cruz, LLC (Santa Cruz, CA). Specially made for PBS national broadcast by filmmakers Phillip Koch and Sally Marschall with rare archival footage, beautiful images of the actual historic flags, and stirring music composed for the film, the program features revolutionary and Civil War reenactments, interviews with eminent historians and flag experts about the history of the American experience and the Flag. The film features interviews with flag historians Dr. Whitney Smith and Howard Michael Madaus, the nationally known expert on American culture Dr. Wayne Fields, and prominent Americans including well-known filmmakers Norman Lear and Harold Ramis. New facts, interpretations and insights about American flag history are revealed to the viewer by the world's leading experts on historic flags. Flag stories include very rare revolutionary era battle flags, Early American flags, Custer flags, Exclusionary flags, Civil War flags, Lincoln flags, 1876 Centennial flags, WWII flags, President Kennedy's assassination flags, 9/11 flags and historical American quilts. Flag stories also include the origin of the Pledge of Allegiance, Revolutionary War battle flag auction at Sotheby's, the Flag as art and leading flag collectors including Ben Zaricor, Kit Hinrichs, and Louise Veninga. Photographed by filmmakers Phillip Koch and Sally Marschall at locations across the country including Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, northern Wisconsin, Vincennes, Indiana, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, this is the definitive television program about the untold history of the American flag.
Film Credits:
Written & directed by Phillip Koch
Produced by Phillip Koch & Sally Marschall
Edited by: Joel E. Denbow
Music by: Steve Mullen
Narrator: Danny Goldring
"Star-Spangled Banner" sung by Jordan Lee
Cinematographers:
Bob Long
Joe Costello
Phillip Koch
Marc Miller
John O'Shaughnessy
David West
Sound Recordists:
Steven Balick
Steve Lafayette
John Zecca
Post-Production Sound Mixer:
Brian Reed
Gaffers:
Ned Hallick
Zet Smith
Adam Reisz
Production Assistants:
Katherine Koch
Peter Kosowsky
Jennifer Sager
Make-up Artist:
Andrea Marie
Research Consultants:
Henry Berger, Ph. D. Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Semler, Ph. D. California State University, Sacramento
Archival Research:
Sarah Pagura
Nick Bahr
Sarah Kogan
Audio Post Production:
BAM! Studios, Chicago
Computer Graphics:
Scott Harris
The Filmworkers Club, Chicago
Thanks to:
Flag Center
Zaricor Flag Collection
City of Chicago Film Office
The Flag Research Center
Grouseland/William Henry Harrison Mansion Museum
State of Illinois Film Office
Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum
Naper Settlement
National Park Service
Nevada Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
Camp Fleischmann
NYC Mayor's Office of Film
New York City Police Museum
The Presidio Trust
Pritzker Military Library
Spirit of Vincennes, Indiana
Star-Spangled Banner Flag House
Wade House Historic Site
William H. Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus
Washington University in St. Louis
Judge James B. Zagel
Footage:
BBC Motion Gallery
NBC News Archives
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Streamline Films
F.I.L.M. Archives
"The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict™"
was produced by Fog Kist™ of Santa Cruz LLC/Film Police of Chicago which is solely responsible for its content.
