Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/28

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Subject: [Leica] Ken Burns misfired - so far
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:55:09 -0400
References: <a3f189160909281315s592dc4f6k8dea555746e221cf@mail.gmail.com> <C6E6952C.5586A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I find his oral content interesting but barely cuts through the 
dialogue already in my head.


At 04:30 PM 9/28/2009, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
>He's head camera operator on all his projects. His hands are on the camera
>most of the time.
>And I was referring to the 6 other guys here on the LUG who find Ken Burns
>documentaries the most obviously distasteful thing they've ever heard of.
>Most peoples mileages vary on that particular issue.
>
>
>Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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