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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/01/04/iPhoto_and_the_Ken_Burns_Effect Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses the "Ken Burns Effect" - the technique of panning and zooming over still photographs in movies - and how the technique came to be named after him. ----- Most critics consider Ken Burns to be the best documentary filmmaker in the world. Among his most notable productions were the miniseries The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz. Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and six of his documentaries have been nominated for one or more Emmy Awards. The Civil War became the first documentary in the world to gross over $100 million. Burns' innovating style and techniques have become an industry standard. The Ken Burns effect was named after him and is used in film editing, on most computer screen savers, and in Apple Computer's iPhoto and iMovie - Oxonian Society Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. In 1981, Burns produced and directed his first film for PBS, the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge. His other films include Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton; Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; a trilogy including The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Mark Twain; and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.Burns is currently producing and directing a six-part film series on the history of the National Parks which will air on PBS in 2009. He is also working on a history of Prohibition and an update to his 1994 epic Baseball. His current film, which premieres in September on PBS, is The War with a companion book he co-authored with Geoffrey C. Ward entitled The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945.

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