Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny - The accuracy of documentaries is apparently becoming suspect. NPR's "On the Media" did a story on this last weekend. "March of the Penguins" had factual errors to mention one well known example they they cited. Michael Moore's stuff also plays pretty loose with the facts when it suits his purposes, they said. See: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/09/25/08 Regards, Dick On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Sonny Carter 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. > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin > <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > >> We share your disappointment with the first episode of the National >> Park >> series. My wife and I have spent considerable time in many of the >> parks and >> even rafted through the Grand Canyon. I guess we were expecting a >> visual >> tour through all the parks, both the ones we have seen and those we >> have >> not. Instead we were treated to a dry, and fairly uninteresting >> history >> lesson stressing the rapacity of some early land developers. It is >> apparent >> that Burns is trying to recreate the success of his Civil War >> series by >> using the same model. But the Civil War had a distinct time line. >> Events >> and >> battles occurred in a sequence which structured the story. Not so >> with the >> parks. Each is unique. It matters little which was created first or >> the >> legal battles surrounding the creation of each. What they look like >> now is >> all important. >> >> Larry Z >> >> >> <<I'm finished with the first episode of Ken Burns' documentary on >> the >> >> national parks and I have to say I feel he made some really strange >> >> choices. Sometimes the colors seem so hyped up as to be surreal. I'm >> >> thinking of the Yellowstone Canyon images in partiular and some >> images >> >> inside the Grand Canyon where there's a distinct green band between >> >> the sky and the cliffs of the canyon. >> >> >> Is this just me? These are places I visit relatively often and it's >> >> like it's all been amped up so much that it no longer is the place I >> >> know and remember. >> >> >> Adam Bridge>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information