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...of his daughters graduated from the school and his youngest daughter is currently a student. BRATTLEBORO -- From an early age Ken Burns has had two loves in his life, baseball and film. "There wasn’t a time I wasn’t into baseball," Burns said. "It’s not just...
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June 2, 2007 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Ken Burns's prolific output (especially its documentary length and exhaustive nature) has often been subject to satire in popular media. * An episode of the 1990s HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show" featured a video mockumentary entitled "The Civil War: The Reenactments", a parody of Burns's The Civil War. * In an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius where Jimmy and his friends travel to Egypt, his classmates are watching a "97 hour-long documentary about Egypt by Ken Burns." * In The Simpsons episode "Pray Anything", Homer inadvertently watches a documentary by, about, and named for Ken Burns due to his inability to find his television remote. In the Episode The Color Yellow, it is implied that Burns and his brother Ric are related to Montgomery Burns. * Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 0805 The Thing That Couldn't Die segment four: Crow T. Robot produces a Civil War documentary, at once elaborate and hastily thrown together. Reminded that Ken Burns has already made a Civil War documentary, he states: "Oh, but was it about the Civil War?" * In the season 3 of 8 Simple Rules episode "The Sleepover", a TV commercial is heard advertising "Ken Burns on Ken Burns, a nine-disc set." Colbert was the recipient of three Emmy Awards as a writer for The Daily Show in 2004, 2005, and 2006, along with the rest of the Daily Show writers, and also won the award for writing in 2008 as ...
June 2, 2007 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com In a common technique among makers of documentaries on subjects where principally still material is available, Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. For example, in a photograph of a baseball team, he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to rest on the player the narrator is discussing. This effect, present in many professional and home software applications, was affectionately named "The Ken Burns Effect" in Apple Inc.'s iPhoto and iMovie (Both for Mac and iPhone) software applications. It also figures in the 6th-generation iPod interface in the cover art of the main menu. Of Burns's many film series, The Civil War is generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, with Burns serving as director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer. The series has been honored with more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a DW Griffith Award, and the $50000 Lincoln Prize, among dozens of others. The nine episodes explore the Civil War through personal stories and photos. During the creation of the movie ...
www.pbs.org Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discuss the upcoming documentary, "The Tenth Inning," a two-part, four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. A new chapter in Burns's landmark 1994 series, BASEBALL, The Tenth Inning tells the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day. Tags:
Ken Burns has been called one of "the most influential documentary makers" of all time. Hear him discuss his career, his belief in the power of film to change lives, and the letter he's carried in his wallet for more than twenty years.
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Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker extraordinaire who brought the Civil War to life for so many of us, joined the National Archives in opening a press preview of our latest exhibit: Discovering the Civil War. The exhibit aims to make the Civil War "strange again." While you'll find Manassas and Appomattox, you're just as likely to run across a letter from the Confederate government seeking recognition from Pope Pius IX, or see a facsimile of two separate versions of the 13th amendment--one that outlawed slavery, and one that did not. Part One of the exhibit runs from April 30, 2010 through September 6, 2010
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...STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will serve as this year's commencement speaker for Penn State University's College of Communications. Burns, who is known for high-profile public television documentaries such as "The...
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The Adventure Starts Here: www.youtube.com ------------------------------ The National Parks: Americans Best Idea. An epic story thats a century long and a continent wide. A film by Ken Burns, September 27th, 8/7C, Only on PBS. For more information, check out: www.pbs.org
macmost.com The Ken Burns Effect in imovie 09 is the default setting for photos inserted into an imovie project. But you can use it for more than just adding a little motion. You can pan and zoom to focus on objects or move along an image. You can even zoom in and then back out and other similar effects.
Dayton Duncan and documentary film producer Ken Burns talk about their book, "The National Parks" at a book signing at the The Toadstool Book Store, Colony Mill, Keene, New Hampshire. More information: starkravingviking.blogspot.com
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I thought I would love the new Ken Burns PBS series .
Twelve hours on my DVR is a big chunk of real estate, so yesterday I decided to begin watching the series that premiered two weeks ago. I'd recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon, and I
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I think it’s our best film,” Ken Burns says, sitting with co-producer and writer Dayton Duncan in front of a roaring fire at Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Snow Lodge in January. The 56-year-old filmmaker is here on a “victory lap” to thank people who
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Ken Burns just announced a follow-up to . The film is tentatively titled, “The Baldwin Brothers: Not So Much.” Ironically, the Wayans brothers will be doing the voice-overs.
“In the late 1900s a boisterous band of Baldwin brothers headed for
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“What would we be like without the national parks?” Ken Burns calls that the “It’s a Wonderful Life” question, the one raised in the classic Christmas movie. What if Americans hadn’t stepped up to save their special places?
“If there were no national
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His documentary 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea' debuts Sept. 27 on PBS. In this live event, Ken Burns answers reader questions
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crusading, Yosemite and other natural treasures might now be gated communities — or tacky theme parks.
isn't a simple travelogue crammed with pretty pictures. It's a rigorous examination of the evolution of the national park system from 1851 to
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Ken Burns will never join the YouTube generation. The prolific filmmaker, whose documentaries on baseball, jazz, The Civil War and other quintessential American subjects have been watched by over 150 million viewers, knows he annoys critics who wants
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I first connected with the video storytelling of Ken Burns with The Civil War. He combined a sweeping narrative with compelling music and attention to detail, telling the story of devastating conflict that appealed to both newcomers to the story and
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the foreground, Burns relates the political, economic and deeply spiritual quests that kept the country's most awesome places from being overrun with franchises from sea to shining sea.
idea from the mid-1800s over 150 years to the
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NEW YORK—It was the nation's best idea, Ken Burns, says: the national parks system.
Americans can appreciate the 58 parks for their majesty and for the once-revolutionary concept of setting aside the country's most precious natural resources for all
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ABC News Radio's Bill Diehl had an opportunity to sit down and chat with filmmaker Ken Burns about his new latest project showcasing the beauty and majesty of America's national parks. The PBS documentary is titled "The National Parks - America's Best Idea."
Samuel Hughes interviews Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns for his feature "A Hymn to the Parks" (The Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept|Oct 2009). Video by Jesse Hughes.
Samuel Hughes interviews Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns for his feature, "A Hymn to the Parks" (The Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept|Oct 2009). Video by Jesse Hughes.
www.pbs.org As explored in Ken Burns's newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, many American families have a national park that is special to them. For writer Terry Tempest Williams and her family, Grand Teton is the park that has a special place in their hearts; she shares the stories of her family's connection to the landscape from generation to generation. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org
Ken Burns is optimistic about the future of the national parks. He points out that they have always gotten a boost in a time of economic downturn, and is hopeful about the current administration's efforts to refresh the park system with more land, more resources and more care. His film THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA airs over six nights beginning Sept. 27, 2009, on PBS.
Two of the key people featured in Ken Burns's new PBS miniseries THE NATIONAL PARKS spoke with me about the role of the automobile in the growth of the national parks in the early 1900s. Dayton Duncan is Burns' longtime collaborator and author of the NATIONAL PARKS companion book. Shelton Johnson is a park ranger at Yosemite, an authority on the Buffalo Soldiers and author of a new historical novel, GLORYLAND.
Ken Burns was interviewed for two hours in New York, NY. Burns talked about his modest upbringing and his early interest in filmmaking. He described creating his own company in the 1970s, Florentine Films, and the 1981 documentary Brooklyn Bridge. He described the style in which the film was made: the use of first person narrative and an easel system for filming still photographs. He discussed his relationship with PBS and his continued work in both feature film and television documentaries throughout the 1980s, including: The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God; The Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton; and T he Congress. He then spoke in great detail about his breakthrough work, The Civil War. He talked about how the nine-hour documentary was made (shooting at 163 archives). He then detailed his subsequent project, including the ambitious documentaries: Empire of the Air: Men Who Made Radio, Baseball, Jazz,and The War. Throughout the interview, Burns spoke about his process including the art of the interview and what he feels makes a good story. The interview was conducted by Ron Simon on October 19, 2007.. To see the entire interview collection, visit emmytvlegends.org
Ken Burns was interviewed for two hours in New York, NY. Burns talked about his modest upbringing and his early interest in filmmaking. He described creating his own company in the 1970s, Florentine Films, and the 1981 documentary Brooklyn Bridge. He described the style in which the film was made: the use of first person narrative and an easel system for filming still photographs. He discussed his relationship with PBS and his continued work in both feature film and television documentaries ...
Ken Burns was interviewed for two hours in New York, NY. Burns talked about his modest upbringing and his early interest in filmmaking. He described creating his own company in the 1970s, Florentine Films, and the 1981 documentary Brooklyn Bridge . He described the style in which the film was made: the use of first person narrative and an easel system for filming still photographs. He discussed his relationship with PBS and his continued work in both feature film and television documentaries ...
In a new six-part series, filmmaker Ken Burns explores an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. The National Parks: America's Best Idea begins Sunday, Sept. 27 on WGBH 2/HD.
Union and Confederate armies converge at Appomattox.
From JAZZ a film by Ken Burns.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks about the people, places, and lasting importance of his latest project, The National Parks: Americas Best Idea.
The acclaimed documentary filmmaker takes on his most difficult subject ever.
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"I remember in the late '90s," Burns said to a gathering of critics. "You know, as we're always doing, we're working on a few projects. 'What have you got going?' 'Thomas Jefferson.' 'Oh, that's exciting.' 'Jazz.' 'Oh, that's really great.' And 'Lewis &
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FILE - In this Monday, April 27, 2009 file photo, filmmaker Ken Burns is pictured in New York.
Your summer visit to Yellowstone or Yosemite - or even to San Antonio Missions or Ellis Island - may not feel like the culmination of a historic struggle,
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One usually associates the mini-series of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns with subjects of obvious historical importance. At first blush, Burns' latest production for PBS, the six-part, 12-hour film Ken Burns' National Parks: America's Best Idea, might
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Better make those park reservations now.
Ken Burns' "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," a six-part, 12-hour documentary celebrating the virtues of the country's nearly 400 federally protected spaces, sets up camp on PBS on Sept. 27 and stays
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