WOW! What a fantastic interview of Ken Burns. I now better understand Mr Burns’ humanity behind all of his outstanding films. The Civil War was the first film of his which I viewed on PBS. Somehow, I hope the funding for “his” films of the interesting subjects he chooses can continue to be made. I hope PBS can continue with raising of funds to continue its existence because PBS provides the vehicle for his documentaries to be seen by everyone — not just by the lucky people who have the money to by a ticket and/or the time to find the production in their city or town and to go see it! Ken Burns makes history come alive for the subjects he chooses to study and film. History is definitely needed to help with the decisions being made today. Thank you for filming this interview of Ken Burns. Thank you to the BBC for providing their films for showing on their the BBC channel on YouTube.
Ken Burns is the rare visionary of bringing history to life! His documentaries are the top of excellence. He does focus on American history, but would be nice if he delved into tying in other countries as well! Perhaps he already has that concept on his list of 'wants to do's'.
Appreciate Mr Burns perspective on film making. Do not know a great deal about him, apart from his affect, but what a reasonable and nice person he appears to be.
Great interview. ❤. from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱🇸🇱🥊🥊🥊❤️.
I always recommend Ken documentaries to family members outside of the US.
Ken does the best documentaries! Please pass on to him that I need to see a film done on 'The Making of The Going To The Sun Road' in Glacier National Park in Montana. I once saw such a PBS documentary of black and white stills maybe 25 years ago but never able to track down that film again. No one seems to know about it. Ken would elevate this Depression Era build designed by a landscape architect for The U.S. Forest Service.
Thank you for featuring Ken Burns ❤❤❤❤❤❤
11:55 exactly! You should try making a film to calibrate what it means to create a decent movie.
12:13 PBS no longer does this, BTW 😢
The marvelous Ken Burns effect is overused to zoom in and out of the orange king's face for the rest of our lives. Much better used on any other subject.
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Rostrum photo-film techniques were well developed before Ken Burns.
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… and the world’s smallest 🎻 award goes to …
That’s a very long winded and unnecessary way of telling us why he got into video making 😅
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