When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

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.