"Nova" Secrets of the Parthenon (2008)

Directors:

Mike Beckham
Gary Glassman

Writer:

Gary Glassman (writer)

TV Series:

"Nova" (1974)

Original Air Date:

29 January 2008 (Season 35, Episode 10)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Plot:

Nova checks in to see how the multi-decade restoration of the Parthenon is going. They find the restorers...

Plot Keywords:

Restoration | Parthenon | Precision | Democracy | Ruin

Cast

Alkibiadis Bakogianis
Alkiviadis Bakogianis
Argirios Bangelis
Kostas Baras
Barbara Barletta	...	Herself
Charalambos Bouras	...	Himself
Andreas Charitopoulos
Lothar Haselberger	...	Himself
Jeffrey Hurwit	...	Himself
Kiriakos Kamaros
Aristotelles Kariofillas
Lena Lambrinou	...	Herself
Margaret Livingstone	...	Herself
Elias Papadopoulos
Cathy Paraschi	...	Herself
Evi Petropoulou	...	Herself
Jay O. Sanders	...	Himself - Narrator
Nikos Toganidis	...	Himself
Mark Wilson Jones	...	Himself
Demetris Xilas

Directed by
Mike Beckham
Gary Glassman

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Gary Glassman		writer

Produced by
Paula Apsell	....	executive producer
Tristan Barako	....	associate producer
Mike Beckham	....	producer
Laurie Cahalane	....	coordinating producer
Patrick Carey	....	associate producer
Hélène Coldefy	....	executive producer
David Condon	....	producer
Gary Glassman	....	producer
Yves Jeanneau	....	executive producer
Yves Jeanneau	....	producer
Christine Le Goff	....	producer
Isabelle Lemonnier	....	line producer
Lisa Mirowitz	....	producer
Fay Sutherland	....	coordinating producer
Ben Sweeney	....	associate producer
Stephen Sweigart	....	supervising producer
Melanie Wallace	....	senior series producer

Original Music by
Ed Tomney

Cinematography by
Mark Daniels

Film Editing by
Laureen Aguirre
Susan K. Lewis
Rob Tinworth

Production Management
Laurent Duret	....	production manager
Andrew Economakis	....	production manager
Sacha Guillaume	....	production manager
Nathan Gunner	....	post-production manager
Regina O'Toole	....	post-production supervisor

Art Department
Joshua Gigantino	....	motion graphics
Tyler Howe	....	designer
Anya Vinokour	....	senior designer
Li Wei	....	designer

Sound Department
Benjamin Bober	....	sound recordist
John Fitzgerald	....	sound recordist
John Jenkins	....	sound editor
John Jenkins	....	sound mixer
John Osborne	....	sound recordist
Rob Tinworth	....	sound editor

Visual Effects by
Celeste Bothwick	....	digital artist
Paul Debevec	....	animator
Elena Gomez	....	digital artist
Steven Gomez	....	visual effects supervisor
Mike Stillwell	....	digital artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Nina Bernfeld	....	assistant camera
J.R. Campbell	....	camera operator
Andrew Economakis	....	camera operator
Mark Helton	....	camera operator
Steve Senn	....	camera operator
Ken Willinger	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Stephen Baldwin	....	colorist
Rima Chaddha	....	assistant editor
Jim Ferguson	....	post-production on-line editor
Alex Kreuter	....	assistant editor
David Levin	....	assistant editor
Rebecca Nieto	....	post-production editor
Melissa Salpietra	....	assistant editor
Rob Tinworth	....	on-line editor
Peter Tyson	....	editor in chief

Music Department
Ray Loring	....	music theme
John Luker	....	music theme
Walter Werzowa	....	music theme

Other crew
Kate Becker	....	publicist
Daisy Beckham	....	research assistant
Daisy Beckman	....	research assistant
Linda Callahan	....	production coordinator
Eileen Campion	....	publicist
Lindsay de la Rigaudiere	....	publicist
Russell J. Donnelly	....	science consultant
Janice Flood	....	talent relations
Ivan Hadingham	....	senior science editor
Scott Kardel	....	talent relations
Ashley King	....	administrator
Brenden Kootsey	....	developer
Raphael Nemes	....	paralegal
Nova	....	independent auditor
Gaia Remerowski	....	researcher
Alan Ritsko	....	managing director
Susan Rosen Shishko	....	legal counsel
Joseph P. Tracy	....	business manager

Thanks
Joan R. Branham	....	special thanks
Joan B. Connelly	....	special thanks
Richard Economakis	....	special thanks
Steven Feinberg	....	grateful acknowledgment
Socratis Mavromatis	....	special thanks
Cathy Paraschi	....	special thanks
Jenny Peek	....	special thanks
Tomas Pereira	....	special thanks

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mark Davis		(episode "Mars Dead or Alive" 2004)
Mark Hobson		(episode "Orangutan - Man of the Forest")

Produced by
D.J. Roller	....	producer (one episode)

Original Music by
James Yannatos

Cinematography by
Sam Henriques		(lighting cameraman) (multiple episodes)
D.J. Roller		(multiple episodes)

Sound Department
G. John Garrett	....	production sound mixer (multiple episodes) (1985-)
Rob Whitehurst	....	sound recordist (1992-)

Other crew
Gary Martyn	....	production assistant
Sallie McGuire Nicholas	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Arte
• Providence Pictures
• Studio International

Special Effects

• Bandito

Other Companies

• AKG Images  archival material (as akg-images, London)
• Acropolis Restoration Committee, The  special thanks
• Acropolis Restoration Project, The  archival material
• Bandito  animation
• Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery  archival material
• British Museum  special thanks
• City of Providence Department of Arts and Culture  special thanks
• Compagnie Démodocos  special thanks (as Compagnie Demodocos)
• Corbis  archival material
• Douglas H. Gordon Collection  archival material
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA)  archival material (as Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts {ENSBA} de Paris)
• Getty Images  archival material (as Getty Images, Inc.)
• Graphics Lab, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California  provided courtesy of: computer graphics of the Parthenon (as Graphics Lab, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California)
• Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California  animation
• Musikvergnuegen  theme music: Nova
• Nashville Parthenon  special thanks
• National Museum of Greece, The  special thanks
• University of Southern California (USC)  special thanks
• yU+Co.  series graphics: Nova

Company:

Arte