Documentarian

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Ken Burns on the components of documentary including selecting a subject and the process of interviewing

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Nicolas Noxon on advice to aspiring documentarians

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Susan Lacy on advice to documentarians

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Nicolas Noxon on the process of producing a documentary

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Ken Burns on getting funding for his documentaries

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Nicolas Noxon on objectivity and ethics in documentaries

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Who talked about this profession

Ken Burns

Documentarian Ken Burns on developing his approach to using photographs in documentaries during the development of Brooklyn Bridge

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Ken Burns the "Ken Burns effect" and his documentary style

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Ken Burns on getting funding for his documentaries

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Ken Burns on the components of documentary including selecting a subject and the process of interviewing

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Ken Burns on the documentary genre and how he'd like to be remembered

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Susan Lacy

Susan Lacy on advice to documentarians

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Nicolas Noxon

Nicolas Noxon on the logistics of shooting National Geographic Specials on location

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Nicolas Noxon on the process of producing a documentary

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Nicolas Noxon on how he knows when a documentary is complete

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Nicolas Noxon on advice to aspiring documentarians

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Nicolas Noxon on objectivity and ethics in documentaries

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About

"It isn’t just enough to film that thing out your window or the tsunami approaching…We’re going to have to figure out how to synthesize these materials and speak in coherent stories to each other…In the mid 19th century Henry Adams said there are grave doubts that the hugeness of the land and whether one government can comprehend the whole. Well, we did, but now we have this same anxiety that we can’t comprehend the whole, and I think it’s incumbent upon our storytellers to try to offer a vision of what that whole might be." - Ken Burns, Producer/Documentarian

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