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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: DarkPenguin on August 29, 2009, 09:28:25 pm

Title: Ken Burns' The National Parks
Post by: DarkPenguin on August 29, 2009, 09:28:25 pm

Anyone else looking forward to this documentary?  The last documentary I really looked forward to was Ken Burns' Baseball.

Title: Ken Burns' The National Parks
Post by: bill t. on August 29, 2009, 11:33:07 pm

I guess I'll take a look.  Amazing that he still works with 16mm film edited on a mechanical Steenbeck editing table, or at least he did up through "Baseball."  But I guess he somehow draws strength from such Luddism, sometimes severe constraints bring a discipline that produces an overall better product.

Chafes me that "The Ken Burns Effect" phrase has shaded all those individuals who pioneered the technique decades earlier, I being one.