The audio in this spot from Wieden + Kennedy is believed to be an original wax recording of Walt Whitman's real voice reading four lines of his 1888 poem "America."
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland
Executive Creative Directors:
Mark Fitzloff, Susan Hoffman
Creative Directors: Danielle Flagg, Tyler Whisnand
Copywriters: Julia Oh, Rudy Adler
Agency Executive Producer: Ben Grylewicz
Agency Producer: Jeff Selis
Agency Associate Producer Juliana Montgomery
Production Company: Anonymous Content, Los Angeles
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Executive Producer: Danielle Peretz
Line Producer: Joe Mandarino
DP: Darren Lew
Editorial: Joint Editorial
Editor: Elliot Graham
Assistant Editor: Jessica Baclesse
Post Producer: Neil Kopp
Post Executive Producer: Patty Brebner
Sound: "America" poem by Walt Whitman courtesy the Walt
Whitman Archive
Music Composer: Owen Pallett and Charles Ives
Music: "The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead (Many Ives Version)" by Final Fantasy
Album Title: Many Lives 49 MP
Publishers/Record
Company: Third Side Music
Mix: Eleven Sound
Mixer: Jeff Payne
Mix Producer: Kristin Felt
Assistant Mixer: Ben Freer
Photographer: Ryan McGinley