Talk:Ken Burns

Revert, please
Oh jeese, I think I just messed up the page.

Can someone revert for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.78.141 (talk) 02:01, 12 March 2007‎ (UTC)

Ken Burns Effect
Does the Ken Burns Effect warrant a new article? -- Mjwilco 03:44, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

If more stuff was added, yes.

Is the "Ken Burns Effect" really career information? A link to the main article when it is mentioned in the body of this one would be sufficient. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robcat2075 (talk • contribs) 21:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Needs at least mention of Geoffrey Ward. --Jerzy(t) 21:24, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)


 * Isn't this just rostrum camera work? And might it more properly be called the Ken Morse Effect? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 02:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, but in (at least american) popular culture, it is identified as the "Ken Burns Effect". Wouldn't you agree?Chrisbuzzard (talk) 19:59, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Too Human
An article by Ken Burns, "Too Human To Be Heroes," appeared on form D of the 2006 New Jersey High School Proficeincy Assessment (HSPA). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.198.121.126 (talk) 17:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Ken Burns photo
FYI: Someone removed the photo I uploaded of Ken Burns. I have returned it. The photographer who took this photo not only gave his permission to use it, but also informed me that all the work produced by his university is in the PD. Here is the correspondence regarding his permissions. --Mactographer 09:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Controversy Section
While I don't mind the copy-past from The War article itself, the wording seems poorly done and at least one big citation is needed. RegBarc 03:08, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I worked it over a bit. It seemed almost horrifically anti-Ken Burns, so I tried to balance it a bit and I added a link to PBS's response. It could probably still use a bit of work though. SetarconeX 22:18, 06 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you! A much better job than I could have dreamed of doing, thank you!  RegBarc 23:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

True. The draft did not end until 1973, so Burns would have been prime draft age in 1972 after high school. Someone should track down whether he got the college deferment for 1972 or perhaps flunked something on the medical classification.Starhistory22 (talk) 06:53, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Exclusivity to PBS till 2022
http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20070112_KenBurns.html This deal should probably be added to the Career section. --mike409 02:24, 2007 July 16 (UTC)

Opie and Anthony
This guy was on Opie and Anthony yesterday and talked about a lot of stuff, can we cover some of it on his page?The Cleveland Browns are awesome! 14:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ken Burns Effect
The article states that the panning/zooming technique was
 * ''first used in Alistair Cooke's 13 part PBS mini-series "Alistair Cooke's America" in 1973.

but the technique was used much earlier, for example in children's programs; I remember watching "moving" stories read from books on the Captain Kangaroo show in the 1960s. I'm marking it with a "citation needed" tag for now until someone can cite a credible sourec for the claim. — Loadmaster (talk) 18:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

New Castle County, Delaware...?
Elsewhere in Wikipedia, Ken Burns appears in a list of "People from New Castle County, Delaware" yet I do not see any reference to New Castle County or Delaware anywhere in this article. According to this article, Ken was born in Brooklyn, went to school in Michigan & Massachusetts, and now lives in New Hampshire. Does anyone have any idea if he is, or was, associated in any way with New Castle County, Delaware? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.237.250 (talk) 07:28, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Films to add to filmography

 * 1) Ken Burns did an excellent film in 2008 honoring Ted Kennedy that was played prior to Sen. Kennedy's address to the Convention.  Suggest it be added to his filmography, etc. Tony (talk) 01:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) http://www.defyingthenazis.org/ Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War - 2016 directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky MichelleInSanMarcos (talk) 00:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Today's edits
Someone attempted to insert inflammatory claims about what Burns supposed said "recently" that all came from the the non-neutral opinion blog Breitbart.com here, rather than an objective journalistic source, based on an interpretation of Burns having reportedly said, "Do you think we'd have a secession movement in Texas and in other places ... if this president wasn't African American?" That itself was thirdhand, based on a report in the National Review reporting about Meet the Press. The video at National Review wasn't playing for me, and in any case, Burns asking what even Breitbart called a rhetorical question isn't the same as saying this: "Mr. Burns recently came under fire for the controversial and inflamatory remarks made he made about the American Tea Party . In recent interviews he has gone on the record denouncing all Tea Party members as racists and frequent users of the "n" word. Although he admitted he could cite no real evidence and only offered second hand anecdotal examples."

So many POV vios, OR interpretations and stretching of claims beyond what the non-RS cite even said. --Tenebrae (talk) 07:35, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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Ken Burns Comedy
As much as I would love to see a Ken Burns history of comedy, I think the "TBA" comedy documentary under Future Releases is actually based on a Funny or Die video (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f180b15d6c/ken-burns-comedy). The citation for the the comedy documentary, from a 2015 KTRS radio interview, is broken, I can't find this interview on the KTRS site, and there's no mention of this on Burns' website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soharborcoat (talk • contribs) 16:19, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Should article be updated based on his comment "I’m a single dad" or was he not speaking literally?
According to https://www.yahoo.com/news/ken-burns-coronavirus-pandemic-not-091421964.html, he said “I’ve been locked in my home with my two little kids. I’m a single dad." Ordinarily, if a Wikipedia said someone was married and the person said he was single in a published interview, the article should be changed to reflect the person's new marital status.  However, in this somewhat unique case, I'm not sure.  It seems like he was speaking figuratively and just meant that being quarantined/isolated alone with his kids was like being a single dad, but that's just my opinion; it's not from a reliable source.  So should the article say he's still married or he's now single or that it's unknown?  The current wording says that he married one woman, got divorced, and married another, which sort of implies they're still together, but doesn't explicitly say so.47.139.43.32 (talk) 04:11, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 05:29, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Confusing Statement
"It has long been used in film production where it is known as the "rostrum camera" is confusing, because the rostrum camera is a piece of equipment (now largely obsolete) and not a technique, which this comment refers to. Many people now refer to it as the "Ken Burns Effect" as it is typically done in software and not hardware. There is a separate wikipedia article on it. This statement should be reworded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.93.146.3 (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Rostrum camera
The greater part of the section on style is a discussion of the use of the rostrum camera. The text does note that the technique was decades old before Burns used it; but the way it's phrased suggests that one particular example, City of Gold, was the most prominent such precedent.

The truth is that rostrum cameras have been used in nearly every historical documentary I've ever seen. Ken Burns does indeed make extensive use of the rostrum camera, and arguably his use of the technique is distinctive; but no such distinctiveness is discussed in the article.

There is one citation in the article, to a Big Think interview (a video with a transcript). The transcript doesn't mention the word "rostrum", so all the claims about the technique in the WP article are uncited.

I propose to prune this section quite heavily.

MrDemeanour (talk) 11:55, 19 March 2023 (UTC)