Digital BW, The Print

For what it's worth, I've done a lot of work for Ken Burns on his films 
for the last 12 years.  Most of the shots that you see in his films which 
there is complicated camera movement within a still photo are done from 
4x5" transparencies that I make of the original photos.  These are 
typically shot in archives, museums libraries and private collections.  
Those transparencies are then shot onto movie film using an animation 
stand that has a computer-controlled motorized lens and track, often at a 
place called The Frame Shop in Boston.  Ken can say "give me a ten-count 
zoom into General Lee's face, and then a twelve-count pan to the horse's 
tail", and they will make the lens go where it should.  There hasn't been 
any digital work involved until very recently; they are now using an Avid 
system for editing.  

Stephen Petegorsky

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