Film Research Project: Blog Post 1

guest list:

• katherine g. johnson
• mary jackson
• dorothy vaughan
• robert c. gilruth
• john glenn
• ted skopinski
• margot lee shetterly
• theodore melfi

guest list explained:

with the movie Hidden Figures, the women katherine, mary and dorothy were not only the main characters but were the women that helped the Friendship 7 become the first manned space ship to orbit the earth. this is why i invited: katherine g. johnson (the best human computer in NASA), mary jackson (america's and NASA's first woman to become an engineer) and dorothy vaughan (one of the smartest minds at NASA). these women were the backbone of NASA and my honored guests. robert c. gilruth was the head of the space task group, where katherine worked as the human computer. he gave katherine a chance when nobody else would. john glenn is another big part of the launch of Friendship 7, well because he was in the shuttle! he was another person to not look the other way at the african american women that worked at NASA. ted skopinski was a big part of katherine's climb, because he was one that kept pushing her down. he didn't like and didn't respec katherine like most of the men and women during the 1960s. with segregation happening during this movie, all the african american women were ridiculed while they were working at NASA and everywhere else. margot lee shetterly is the author to the book Hidden Figures, the movie was based off of the book that she wrote. she researched, interviewed the women/men and worked extremely hard to create this book to reveal the women behind NASA. lastly, theodore melfi is the director of the movie Hidden Figures, he created an excellent movie that portrayed african american's lives during segregation. he did a great job making the movie/script/cast. i think he would have great insight on why he made the actors do certain things.