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February 08, 2006
The Ken Burns move: it's fade-to-black
Reports Ed Symkus in Newton TAB, the Ken Burns move is kaput: "The Frame Shop, the Newton-based animation facility that's brought historical photographs to life for filmmakers Ken Burns, Ric Burns and Errol Morris, as well as for countless editions of PBS' "American Experience" and "Nova," is closing its doors and auctioning its equipment. Ed Joyce started the operation in 1979, and Ed Searles joined in 1983. And though there's still plenty of work going on—Searles is currently in the midst of World War II, the newest Ken Burns project—times and technology have caught up.... "It's similar to what computers did to type houses... They shrunk the numbers of them down with desktop publishing. People didn't have to go to printers anymore. And now there's a program out there that has what they call a Ken Burns move," he says of the style of moving a film camera around a still photograph that Frame Shop specialized in. "A lot of that work is now being done in-house." Among equipment being auctioned off on February 15 are an Oxberry film camera, lighting equipment, editing supplies and digital Beta decks.
Posted by pride at February 8, 2006 02:57 PM
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