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		Ken Burns was also the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer of the landmark television series The Civil War.
		Ken Burns was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer of the Public Television series Baseball.
		Ken Burns' next multi-part documentary, a sequel to Baseball and The Civil War, is a history of Jazz music.
	www.florentinefilms.com /ffpages/KB.html (696 words)

	Ken Burns - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		Ken Burns is a celebrated American documentary filmmaker of the 1980s and 90s who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana.
		Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals, and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approach to history.
		Ken Burns arrived upon the scene with the Oscar-nominate Brooklyn Bridge (1981), a nostalgic chronicle of the construction of the fabled edifice.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /24028/Ken_Burns.htm (436 words)

	Ken Burns Biography - NewHampshire.com
		Ken Burns is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who resides in Walpole, New Hampshire with his wife.
		Burns is best known for his 11-hour film series The Civil War, a collection of nine episodes chronicling the Civil War through personal anecdotes and photos, that is unlike any film on the subject.
		Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 1953.
	www.newhampshire.com /nh-people/ken-burns-biography.aspx (442 words)

	Ken Burns Jazz Cosmopolis
		Ken Burns' Jazz documentary series aired in the United States on PBS in January.
		Burns would have done better to entitle his series "Jazz until the 1960s".
		Burns rightly presents Jelly Roll Morton as the man who falsely claimed that he invented jazz, but, according to the film, he was the first to have transcribed the music.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo14/kenburnsjazz.htm (2740 words)

	PBS and filmmaker Ken Burns extend relationship until 2022 - Boston.com
		Burns, essentially the nation's highest-profile documentarian since his series "The Civil War" created a sensation, has agreed to air his work exclusively on PBS until 2022, the network said.
		Burns was reluctant to take on another war, particularly since he's so identified with "The Civil War" project.
		The fact that a handful of swear words in the documentary are an issue is an example of an unintended consequence of the government's crackdown on the coarsening of TV, she said.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/01/13/pbs_and_filmmaker_ken_burns_extend_relationship_until_2022 (490 words)

	Ken Burns' Civil War:
		Yet it is important to remember, as Ken Burns did for most of his eleven-hour film, that any chunk of history as huge and complicated as the Civil War is bound to reflect a number of different, and often conflicting, stories.
		Burns generalizes about the conditions under which slaves were born, choosing not to qualify his statements by representing slaves who were not born under horrible conditions.
		Burns lists diseases common to the slave without indicating that many of the diseases in his catalog ravaged white populations just as savagely.
	www.regent.edu /acad/schcom/rojc/melton.html (3173 words)

	Burns, Ken
		Ken Burns is one of public television's most celebrated and prolific producers.
		Burns is a 1975 graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied under still photographers, Jerome Liebling and Elaine Mayes, and received a degree in film studies and design.
		In this way, Ken Burns's chronicles are populated with seemingly ordinary men and women who rise up from the ranks of the citizenry to become paragons of national (and occasionally transcendent) achievement, always persisting against great odds.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/burnsken/burnsken.htm (1151 words)

	Ken Burns Kills Jazz
		Burns heralds jazz as the great American contribution to world music and sets it up as a kind of roadmap to racial relations across the 20th century.
		But Burns is a classicist, who is offended by the rawer sounds of the blues, its political dimension and inescapable class dynamic.
		It's a genre of jazz that enables Burns to throw around phrases such "Ellington is our Mozart." He sees jazz as art form in the most culturally elitist sense, as being a museum piece, beautiful but dead, to be savored like a stroll through a gallery of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
	www.counterpunch.org /burns.html (1313 words)

	Ken Burns Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Burns was born July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the older of two sons born to Robert Kyle and Lyla Smith (nee Tupper) Burns.
		Burns shared his father's love of photography, and was also passionate about baseball and the movies, especially those by director John Ford.
		Burns used the sport as a filter through which to explore social history, labor history, race relations, and the ideas of immigration and assimilation in the United States.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ken-burns (1696 words)

	Ken Burns - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Burns, Ken, born in 1953, American motion-picture producer, director, cinematographer, and writer, noted for his documentaries dealing with American...
		The Lincoln Prize is awarded annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College for the finest scholarly work on Abraham Lincoln,...
		Burns, William John (1861-1932), American detective, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Ohio, where his father was police commissioner in...
	encarta.msn.com /Ken_Burns.html (135 words)

	Shambhala Sun - E Pluribus Unum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ken Burns: However, the great irony, the great wonderful fly in the ointment that the universe has sent at us, is the powerful lesson that African-Americans are the center of American life.
		Ken Burns: Nothing critical, other than to say that what you perceive might be based on the inevitable didacticism that any scholarly discipline must inevitably hew to.
		Ken Burns: That’s exactly what it is. And it is in the American environment—filled with glaring, obvious flaws which other places have already taken care of with such smug satisfaction—where the energy is the greatest, where the possibilities are the greatest.
	www.shambhalasun.com /Archives/Features/1997/Nov97/KenBurns.htm (3584 words)

	The Online Communicator: Ken Burns
		Ken burns is charging up a hillside through a field of orange wildflowers, leading visitors to a red-brick replica of thomas Jefferson's garden house that the filmmaker built behind his home a bit of old Virginia in Walpole, New Hampshire.
		Burns was trying to synthesize, in his words, "the best of the old school of history--great men doing great things--and the new school, which is history from the bottom up."
		Burns' epic takes seriously the baseball fan's obsession with the sport and its many layers of meaning--"time, memory, family, home, and race," in Burns' words--and justifies it to the rest of the nation.
	www.online-communicator.com /kenburns.html (6443 words)

	Ken Burns’ America Reconsidered
		Ken Burns, for instance, is arguably the most recognizable and influential historian of his generation, even though he isn’t a traditional scholar.
		Burns, overall, articulates a version of the country’s past that conveys his own perspective as a popular historian, intermingling many widely held assumptions about the character of America and its liberal-pluralist aspirations.
		For Burns, it is a process of reevaluating the country’s historical legacy and reconfirming it from a wholly new generational outlook.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/quest/KenBurns.html (1483 words)

	October 2002 - Ken Burns Will Receive IDA Career Achievement Award - iCOM Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Ken Burns is in a relatively early stage of his career to receive this acknowledgement from his peers," says IDA President Michael Donaldson, "but he has already compiled an exceptional body of work that will stand the test of time.
		Burns currently has two films on the front burner: Horatio’s Drive which follows the first cross-country automobile trip; and Jack Johnson, a portrait of the complicated boxer who became the first African American heavyweight champion.
		Burns explains that advances in film to digital conversion and television display technologies have made it possible to present subtle nuances in colors, contrast and sound that are integral to the emotional content of the stories he is telling.
	www.icommag.com /october-2002/october-page-20.html (685 words)

	Ken Burns
		Ken Burns was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer of the PBS series BASEBALL.
		Burns was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer of the landmark television series THE CIVIL WAR.
		Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/burns_k.htm (794 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- Ken Burns: America Collection - ****
		Ken Burns is the Babe Ruth, the Louis Armstrong of contemporary documentary filmmakers.
		Burns' work has found a home on PBS, and that is where the seven separate films that make up the Ken Burns: America Collection originally appeared.
		Burns is listed as the producer, director and cinematographer of most of these films, which underscores the fact that he does much more than decide on camera angles and determine how narration should be delivered.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/ken_burns_america_collection.htm (573 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Seattle rates an exclusive sneak peek at Ken Burns' new film about WWII
		Burns has been working on "The War" for nearly seven years and will preview it in Seattle on Friday.
		This shot from Ken Burns' "The War" documentary was taken in Bitche, France, on March 16, 1945.
		In typical Burns fashion, the filmmaker not only tracks the men into war, but also keeps in touch with the women who stayed home with the kids.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2003257106_burns14.html (1065 words)

	Ken Burns - Biography - Moviefone
		Dissatisfied with dry, scholarly historical documentaries, Burns wanted his films to "live," and to that end adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion.
		Burns' first successful venture was the award-winning documentary The Brooklyn Bridge, which ran on public television in 1981.
		In 1994, Ken Burns released his long-awaited Baseball, an 18-hour saga which, like The Civil War, was telecast at the same time as the publication of a companion coffee-table book.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ken-burns/83608/biography (227 words)

	Ken Burns' rush to capture voices of a fading generation in 'The War' - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Burns, a triple Emmy winner, set the standard for long-form documentaries, using still photos and narratives to electrify history in films such as The Civil War Yet his enthusiasm for bringing to life stories of a generation he admires is tempered by the harshest criticism of his three-decade career.
		Burns, who calls himself an emotional archaeologist, says he was touched by the stories told by veterans and loved ones who cried over buddies lost and the horrors they experienced.
		Burns hopes The War inspires viewers to talk with relatives about their war experience and bolster a PBS effort with the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project to collect stories for the library's archive.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2007-09-20-the-war_N.htm?csp=34 (1681 words)

	'Jazz': Ken Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ken Burns: Since he is as much a pop band leader as a jazz band leader, in our series he is most noted for hiring Dizzy and his Hepster's Dictionary.
		Ken Burns: This was a difficult film to make but a joyous topic to cover.
		Ken Burns: Mostly it is the lack of dancing, when b-bop came in.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20010122001/tscript.htm (1239 words)

	Ken Burns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burns is well known for his style in documentary material, making use of original prints and photographs, and has produced several acclaimed historical and biographical documentaries for television and film.
		Burns received a L.H.D. from Bates College in 2002.
		Burns's brother, Ric Burns, is also a noted documentary filmmaker, whose work has appeared on national public television for nearly two decades, earning significant recognition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Burns (841 words)

	Ken Burns - The Huffington Post
		Ken Burns' rush to capture voices of a fading generation in 'The War'
		Ken Burns discusses his book and his seven-part film based on his book, which is scheduled to air on PBS in September 2007.
		Filmmaker Ken Burns arrives with Presedent and CEO of PBS Paula Kerger for the premiere of his World War II documentary "The War", at the Museum of Modern Art, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in New York.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /people/Ken+Burns (1263 words)

	Amazon.ca: Burns, Ken: America: Shakers: DVD: Ken Burns,David McCullough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From America's documentarian Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) comes this intimate portrait of a "serene creed" whose members considered themselves America's "chosen people." They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, they are more popularly known as the Shakers.
		They also believed in celibacy, which is why, when Burns filmed this in 1989, there were but a dozen Shakers left in America.
		Ken Burns brings his inimitable style and "emotional archaeology" to one of the most fascinating and least understood religious sect in American history.
	www.amazon.ca /Burns-Ken-America-Shakers/dp/B0002JP52C (807 words)

	Ken Burns Biography
		Ken L. Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American documentary filmmaker.
		Burns is particularly well known for his style in documentary material making use of original prints and photographs and has produced several acclaimed historical and biographical documentaries for TV and film.
		In film editing non-linear editing systems such as iMovie (from Apple Computer) sometimes have an option named Ken Burns Effect where a still image may be incorporated into a film using a slow pan and zoom.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/2164/ken-burns/bio.htm (152 words)

	Ken Burns — Infoplease.com
		Ken Burns's America: style, authorship, and cultural memory.
		Jamming the reception: Ken Burns, Jazz, and the problem of "America's music".(critical and public reaction to Burn's documentary television......
		Reeling in Wright: filmmaker Ken Burns trains his camera on the tumultuous life of Frank Lloyd Wright.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0921498.html (342 words)

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