Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I didn't say Ken Burns' National Parks Documentary was bad; (maybe you go to different cafeterias than I do.) I go to the Piccadilly once in a while in Shreveport. I like the green pea salad, and the turnip greens. I always have to add some pepper sauce to the greens. They do as good a job as anyone frying catfish fillets. So, there ya go. I don't know If Ken shoots all the footage himself. Maybe so. Most of the still stuff is just pulled straight from scans. This I know, because I was a sous-chef in one of his cafeteria-docs a few years ago. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > A Ken Burns Documentary is a little bit like going to a cafeteria. They > > serve it in an attractive manner, fresh, but no pepper in the gumbo, and > > someone to takes the trays to the table for you. > > > > They've used materials from our archives before, and were a tiny bit > > slippery in the accuracy of period the image was supposed to portray. > > > > > Wow weird! > I'll go to bat for Ken Burns. > > If his stuff is so bad why are they by far the most watched things on > public > TV for the past 22.2 years? > Because they are so bad and boring I'm sure is the reason. > He's mine and most peoples favorite documentarian. > - He operates his cameras himself. > - And its all about the power of stills. > Stills in motion of course. > The Ken Burns affect. > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA