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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Executive Producer Born: July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Biography:After earning his BA at Hampshire College, Brooklyn-born "Ken Burns" pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker. At age 22, he formed Florentine Films in his home base of Walpole, New Hampshire. Dissatisfied with dry, scholarly historical documentaries, Burns wanted his films to "live," and to that end adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion. He then pepped up the visuals with "first hand" narration gleaned from contemporary writings and recited by top stage and screen actors. Burns' first successful venture was the award-winning documentary The Brooklyn Bridge, which ran on public television in 1981. While he was Oscar-nominated for his 1985 theatrical release The Statue of Liberty, Burns' work has enjoyed its widest exposure on television: such films as "Huey Long" (1985), "Thomas Hart Benton" (1986) and "Empire of the Air" (1991) (a... Full Biography
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