Acknowledgements and Credits
Thank you to all the encouraging and generous backers on Kickstarter
Filmmakers
- Director: Amy Young
- Scientific advisor and Producer: Michael Trott
Locations include:
United States
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
- Premiere Cooperative, Champaign, Illinois
- Walz Scale, East Peoria, Illinois
- Urbana Farmer's Market, Urbana, Illinois
- National Academies of Science, Washington DC
- University of California at Berkeley
- Mack's Twin City Recycling, Urbana, Illinois
- University of Illinois libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Math Library, Illini Union
- Dixon's Seafood Shoppe, Peoria, Illinois
United Kingdom
- British Museum, London
- Imperial College, London
- Maxwell Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge
France
- Institut de France, Paris
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Sèvres
- Versailles Palais des Congrès
- Museum of the National Archives of France, Paris
- Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris
- Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Paris
- Chateau de Broglie, Broglie
Germany
- Physikalisch Technische Bundesantsalt, Braunschweig
- Castle Museum of Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha
- Pfundsmuseum, Hofbibery
Switzerland
- Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Wabern
- Mettler-Toledo AG, Greifensee
Production has spanned years and included contributions from these crew
U.S.A.
- Camera: Nausheen Dadabhoy, Brian Udoff
- Sound: Rich Gavin
- Additional camera and sound: Amy Young
France
- Producer: Alice Bégon
- Camera: Amine Berrada, Manuel Bolaños;, Aurélien Marra, Guillaume Legrand, Arthur Cahn
- Sound: Clément Schneider, Sylvain Lambinet, Patrick Kack-Brice, Guillaume Legrand
Germany
- Producer: Luis Singer
- Camera: Rainer Windolph
- Sound recordist: Johannes Kascheck
These people were generous their time and granted me interviews and answered my questions:
- Patrick Abbot
- Bill Alschulyer
- Pauline Barat
- John Barclay
- John Barton
- Peter Becker
- Charly Bernard
- Michael Borys
- Philippe-Maurice de Broglie
- Delmer Castor
- Simone Charbonneau
- Leon Chao
- Ken Clements
- Florent Cosandier
- Marie-Ange Cotteret
- Robert Crease
- Richard Davis
- Suzanne Débarbat
- Michael Duff
- Charles Ehrlich
- Ali Eichenberger
- Nerida Ellerton
- Ryan Fitzgerald
- Jay Geistlinger
- Gérard Geneves
- Elizabeth Gentry
- Michael Gläser
- Darine Haddad
- Mehmet Selim Hanay
- Wendy Harris
- Carol Hockert
- Kenneth Inn
- Zeina Jabbour
- Lisa Karam
- Scott Kelber
- Christopher Kuhn
- Thierry Lalande
- Lizbeth Laureano Pérez
- Vincent Lee
- Javier Levitt
- Daniel Lichtblau
- Ruimin Liu
- Víctor José Lizardi Nieto
- Jim Locher
- Malcolm Longair
- Georgette MacDonald
- Oleg Marichev
- Waylena McCully
- Felix Mathis
- Michael Meehan
- Stephen Mihm
- Martin Milton
- Estefanìa de Mirandés
- Peter Mohr
- Christian Müller-Schöll
- Noboru Murakami
- Patrick Pinot
- Mark Plimmer
- Jon Pratt
- Philippe Richard
- Michael Rourkes
- Stephan Schlamminger
- Rick Seifert
- Zaccaria Silvestri
- Richard Steiner
- Barry Taylor
- John Taylor
- Michael Trott
- Michael Unterweger
- Hans-Peter Vaterlaus
- Klaus von Klitzing
- Rick Watson
With partial support from:
The Materials Computation Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- David Ceperley
The California Institute of the Arts
- Deborah LaVine, Steve Anker, Myron Emery, Adele Horne, Bérénice Reynaud, Gary Mairs, Bill Alschuyler
La Fémis (Paris)
- Adminstration: Anne Le Gonidec, Pascale Borenstein, Marc Himbert, Julie Tingaud, Jossie Boufflet, and the facilities managers
- Tutors: Lech Kowalski, Odile Allard, Olivier Zuchuart, Mathilde Trichet
La Fémis thanks:
- Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Mathieu Fournet, Attaché audiovisuel
- Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Sous-Direction des affaires internationales et européennes
- Le Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée
- Le Ministère des Affaires Ètrangéres et Euroéenne
- La Fondation Odon Vallet
- And their partners: Eclair, Fuji, Kodak, Panavision Alga Techno, La Procirep
I am very grateful for feedback from previewers:
- Jeff Adams
- Philip Andrango
- Manuel Camacho
- Juan De La Rosa
- Caleb Hansen
- Amelia Hoffbec
- Linda Kwon
- Andrew Kwon
- Jose Martin-Garcia
- Peter Goodyear
- Moses Gurvindapalli
- Michael Ravnitzky
- Jon Reiss
- Christian Rohland
- Zachary Schneider
- Gabe Spalding
- Rhea Speights
- Keegan Wahlgren
- Zach Verdi
Friends, colleagues and consultants who helped with production:
- Fayez Barakat
- Eric Becker
- Pascale Borenstein
- Ricky Bright
- Peg Boyle-Single
- Daniel Antonio Di Liscia
- Mr. G
- Molly Galvin
- Elisa Gonzales
- Jennifer Harlow
- Andy Henson
- Kent Hudson
- Jennifer Huergo
- Carrina LaCorata
- Guillaume Legrand
- Willie May
- Galina Mihalkina
- Günter Missuweit
- Xavier de Montfort
- Ben Stein
- Yoshiaki Takezawa
- Dirk Trott
- Christine Xu
- Matt Walz
- Lorelle Young
The members of the public who shared their views about measurement and the redefinition of the kilogram:
- Steph Adams
- Kevin Ayers
- Gene Bild
- David Ceperley
- Michael Culley
- Don Davis
- Mark Dirksen
- Tasha Dunaway
- Marny Elliott
- Dustin Farris
- Sue Feldman
- Bettina Francis
- David Gerdez
- Jory Johnson
- Chad Knutson
- Konstantinos Kourtikakis
- Anthony Leggett
- Stephen Martin
- Lorraine Metcalf
- Julie Mills
- Marcia E. Nelson
- Victoria Newman
- Helen Parker
- Joe Phillipp
- Robert Riley
- Michele Roberts
- Beth Schneid
- Brian Schottman
- Stan Schutte
- Kathy Shannon
- Rae Spooner
- Alex Tatru
- Jason Thacker
- Jon J. Thaler
- Casey Thiel
- David Trial
- Theresa de Valence
- Joel Weidinger
- Ed Weiskamp
These organizations and businesses contributed information, time, and permission to film:
- Association Métrodif
- Barakat Gallery
- California Institute of the Arts
- Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
- La Fémis
- Murakami Koki Company
- Musee des Arts et Métiers
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, School of Art and Design