About

For detailed information about the structure and content of The Living Room Candidate,
visit the Site Guide/Help section.

Funding and Credits

The 2008 edition of The Living Room Candidate is made possible with a generous gift from the Verizon Foundation.

Site Technical Development and Production: Bandwidth Productions

Interface and Graphic Design: Offregister

Art Direction: karlssonwilker inc.

Education Consultants: Center for Children and Technology, Education Development Center

Video Hosting and Delivery: Limelight Networks

Staff

Publisher
Rochelle Slovin, Director, Museum of the Moving Image

Executive Producer
Carl Goodman, Senior Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image

Curator
David Schwartz, Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image

Museum of the Moving Image
Wendell Walker, Deputy Director for Collections, Exhibitions, and Design
Christopher Wisniewski, Director of Education
Jason Eppink, Assistant Curator of Digital Media
Mal Ahern, Curatorial Assistant

Copy Editor
Joshua Land

Video Encoding and HTML scripting
Jacob Gaboury and Jesse Martinez

Research and Transcription
Jamie Auriemmam, Jacob Gaboury, Maggie Glass, Maria Lund, Tom McCormack, Marion Miclet, Ned Milligan, Vika Paranyuk, Josh Parker, Regina Robbins, Kate Schlauch, Jordan Smith, Ya-Yun Teng, Aidan Tumas, and Melanie Wehrmacher

Acknowledgements

The Museum acknowledges important in-kind contributions of media production and editing software from Tekserve and website hosting services from Logicworks.

The Museum is grateful to these organizations and individuals for providing video material:

  • AFL-CIO
  • AKP&D Message and Media
  • Barely Political
  • Bush Cheney '04
  • Citizens United
  • Andy Cobb (Election ’08)
  • Democratic National Committee
  • Devine Mulvey
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
  • Jesse Dylan
  • George Bush Presidential Library
  • Gerald R. Ford Library
  • Jimmy Carter Library
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
  • John Kerry for President
  • John McCain 2008
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
  • Maverick Media
  • McCarthy Marcus Hennings, LTD.
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • MoveOn
  • National Campaign Fund
  • Northeastern University Library Archives and Special Collections
  • Obama for America
  • Republican National Committee
  • Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation
  • Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
  • Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
  • Tony and Reenah Schwartz
  • Johan Soderberg
  • Squier Knapp Dunn Communications
  • Stevens, Reed, Curico & Potholm
  • Synthetic Human Pictures
  • University of Kansas
  • Vets for Freedom
  • Vote Vets
  • Jason Woliner

Special thanks to the University of Oklahoma Political Commercial Archive for providing material for the original version of The Living Room Candidate, presented in 1992 at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Contact Us
Please send questions or comments to
lrc2008@movingimage.us

Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37th Street
Astoria, New York 11106

Phone: 718.784.4520
Fax: 718.784.4681

Press Inquiries
For all press inquiries, including interview requests and photos:
Contact Tomoko Kawamoto
pr@movingimage.us
/ 718.777.6830