Film Credits

TAKING THE LONG VIEW
The Life of Shiing-shen Chern

With
(in order of appearance)

C.N. YANG
HUNG-HSI WU
BERTRAM KOSTANT
JAMES H. SIMONS
SHIING-SHEN CHERN
CALVIN MOORE
PHILLIP GRIFFITHS
ROBERT L. BRYANT
MAY CHU
YIMING LONG
MOLIN GE
UDO SIMON
KARIN REICH
WENTSUN WU
ROBERT OSSERMAN
ISADORE M. SINGER
CHUU-LIAN TERNG
ALAN WEINSTEIN
GUODING HU
PAUL CHERN
ROB KIRBY
WEIPING ZHANG
ROBERT UOMINI
FRIEDRICH HIRZEBRUCH
ZIXIN HOU
GANG TIAN
LEI FU
DELING HU

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Produced and directed by

GEORGE PAUL CSICSERY

Cinematography, USA

SKIP SWEENEY

Audio recording

CODY MEEKS
MARK WOTTON
KEVIN DAVID JONES

Cinematography, China

ANDREA CAVAZZUTI

Sound Engineer, Lighting

LIN JING

Sound Engineer

WU YAUBO

Sound Assistant, Grip

CUI SHAN

Cinematography, Berlin

NICLAS MIDDLETON

Audio recording

MICHAEL KRAJCZOK

Cinematography, Bonn

WERNER SCHÜSSLER

Audio recording

MORITZ-JULIAN SUCKER

Kite cinematography

JOHN GIANNINI

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Music composed and performed by

RICHARD CHON

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Editor

TAL SKLOOT

Additional editing, animation, title and photo graphics

KYUNG LEE

Assistant Editor

ASALI ECHOLS

Animation design consultants

RICHARD PALAIS
CHUU-LIAN TERNG

Chinese title calligraphy

CHRIS WANG

Video Colorist, Video Free America

ROGER JONES

Video Colorist, Video Arts

ED RUDOLPH

Online Editors, Video Arts

BOB JOHNS
LOREN SORENSON
BEN ZWEIG

Post Production Sound

E. LARRY OATFIELD
EWA SZTOMPKE

Production Assistants

BASIL GLEW-GALLOWAY
KRISTI WHISLER

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1990 interview with S. S. Chern

courtesy of
JEAN-PIERRE BOURGUIGNON
TONY PHILLIPS

2000 discussion with S. S. Chern

courtesy of
Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute

Film of Summer Institute in Differential Geometry

Stanford 1973
courtesy of
ROBERT OSSERMAN

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Archival footage from China

courtesy of
SHUQIANG LU
CHERN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS
NANKAI UNIVERSITY
TIANJIN TV

Excerpts from

The Stilwell Road
courtesy of
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Additional archival film from

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
provided by
ABSOLUTELY ARCHIVES
CRITICALPAST
JOE HARRIS
HENNINGER MEDIA SERVICES

Newscast of lottery announcement

Courtesy of
ROBERT UOMINI

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Still photographs

Photo of Hermann Weyl
by
LOTTE MEITNER-GRAF, London
courtesy of
ANNE MEITNER

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Photos of

Hermann Weyl

Symposium on Differential Topology
in honor of Marston Morse

Andre Weil
by
HERMAN LANDSHOFF

from
THE SHELBY WHITE AND LEON LEVY ARCHIVES CENTER,
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY,
Princeton, NJ, USA

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Photos of Louis Nirenberg

by
CLAUDIO REA
courtesy of
LOUIS NIRENBERG

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Photos of C.N. Yang and T.D. Lee

courtesy of
C.N. YANG

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Photo of Erich Kähler

courtesy of
THE ESTATE OF CHARLOTTE KäHLER

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Photos of Artin, Blaschke, and Kähler

by
Natascha Artin Brunswick
courtesy of
TOM ARTIN

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Chern family and Kunming photos

courtesy of
YUAN-SHOU SHEN

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Photos of S.S. Chern

courtesy of
GEORGE BERGMAN
CHERN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS
DAVID EISENBUD
GUODING HU
LINDA KIRBY
KARIN REICH
MSRI

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Photo of Chern Medal Ceremony

courtesy of
IMU

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University of Chicago exteriors

GEORGE CSICSERY
University of Chicago Special Collections

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Blaschke papers and books

courtesy of
KARIN REICH
UDO SIMON

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Correspondence between S. S. Chern
and the Institute for Advanced Study

from
THE SHELBY WHITE AND LEON LEVY ARCHIVES CENTER
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY,
Princeton, NJ, USA

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S. S. Chern papers and notebooks

courtesy of
THE CHERN FAMILY
THE CHERN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS

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Cultural Revolution posters

courtesy of
ERICA MARCUS

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Painting of Yang and Chern at CIM

by
FAN ZENG

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Chern Stone at Nankai University

designed by
ALBERT CHU

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Kite Wrangler

TOM MCALISTER

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Jasmine Flower Song

(Mo Li Hua)
performed by
THE STUDENT CHOIR OF NANKAI UNIVERSITY

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Chinese translation and subtitles

RICHARD BRZUSTOWICZ
KAREN CHUNG-CHIEN CHANG
MEI C. CHEN
NORA CHEN
QINTAO CHEN
ALLY FAN
GRACE JUNG
ERICA MARCUS
AH PING
CHI-MEI TIEN

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Website development

MEI C. CHEN
ZSUZSA KATONA

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Special thanks to

TOM ARTIN
CHENGMING BAI
LILY CHANG
MAY CHU
LINGYU DENG
FRED ELLIOTT
SHIRLEY ENTZMINGER
GUOPING FENG
ERICA MARCUS
ERICA MOSNER
LINDA RIEWE
YUAN-SHOU SHEN
JIM SOTIROS
MARGARET SULLIVAN
NANCY STRYBLE
YIMEI TIAN
MOLLY WALKER
DAVID WEISSMAN
LILY WEN
XINGWEI ZHOU
MICHAEL YU
GREAT CHINA RESTAURANT

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A production of
MSRI & Zala Films
www.zalafilms.com
www.slmath.org

© 2011
Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
All Rights Reserved

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This film was made possible with support from
SIMONS FOUNDATION