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From Dreams To Reality: A Tribute to Minority Inventors is a 1986 Documentary featuring famed African-American actor Ozzie Davis. It features several notable African American, Native American, Asian American, and individuals of other ethnicities who have made significant contributions to science, technology, and medicine.

Plot

Famed African American actor Ozzie Davis begins the film with a tour of the U.S. Patent Office in Virginia, a facility that processes over four million patents yearly.

The film profiles the following scientists:

• Louis Latimer, an African American collaborator with Thomas Edison. Latimer is credited with numerous patents including advances in Electricity
• Randall Woods, an African American inventor responsible for over sixty railroad industry patents including the three-rail system currently used in subway cars
• George Washington Carver, African American inventor and scientist at Tuskegee Institute. he is noted for his agricultural and chemical research with numerous plants including peanuts.
• Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor who patented the traffic signal
• Dr. Charles Drew, an African American physician who modernized methods to preserve blood plasma.
• Dr. An Wang, an Asian American inventor with patents involving the basic digital computer machine.
• Philip Stevens, a Native American inventor of defense system missiles.
• Ysidore Martinez, an Hispanic American inventor of knee implants for victims of arthritis.
• Dr. Meredith Gourdine, an African American inventor responsible for designing a fog dispersal system used on airport runways.
• Mildred Smith, an African American inventor of the genealogy game "Family Traditions".

Cast and Crew

Ozzie Davis - Narrator Robert B. Amdur - Executive Producer Vicki Kodama - Director, Writer, Producer EVKO Productions - Producer Nicholas Anderson - Editor William Mears - Original Music Nicholas Anderson - Guitar Music Bob Waybright - Director of Photography Animation House - Animation Kris Kral - Assistant Editor Anne Puntch - Production Assistant Gina Bowles - Production Assistant Kris Kral - Production Assistant Stuart Phillips - Production Assistant Billy Parolini - Assistant Camera Alicia Craft - Assistant Camera Alvin Allen - Assistant Camera Mary Kaigler-Schaffer - Sound Recordist Stephen Halbert - Sound Recordist Don Grissom - Sound Recordist Steven Seitz - Gaffer Roger Olkowski - Gaffer Dan Sakas - Gaffer Penny Ross - Make-Up Bill Mears Alan Brownstein James Lightfoot Garrett Gebelein Edmund Baxter Miquel Munoz Studios - Titles Media Research Associates Inc. - Stock Footage Research