When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

At 22 upon graduation he and two college friends founded Florentine Films in Walpole New Hampshire. For example in a photograph of a baseball team he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to rest on the player who is the subject of the narrator. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of using archival footage and photographs.