Editorial Product Review: essential video:Covering the entire 20th century in one video series is an ambitious project, but one that Peter Jennings and ABC News are up to. In The Century: America's Time, a 12-part documentary on six videotapes that is a companion to the book of the same name, Jennings guides us through a century of technology and advancement like no other. As he says in his introduction to episode 1, 'Seeds of Change,' 'Unlike previous centuries where leadership was ...
Editorial Product Review: :A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. 'We know the history of our own country,' narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us 'history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West.' Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding ...
Editorial Product Review: :A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. 'We know the history of our own country,' narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us 'history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West.' Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding ...
Editorial Product Review: :A thousand years in 10 hours is an ambitious project, to say the least. But the team at CNN succeeds with its now-typical aplomb, as the team that brought us Cold War shares with us Millennium. 'We know the history of our own country,' narrator Ben Kingsley intones. But this series purports to give us 'history from a global perspective, not through the eyes of the West.' Using reenactments and impressive computer graphics--used with inspiration for everything from rebuilding ...
Editorial Product Review: :Abel Gance's 1927 masterpiece is absolutely indispensable for silent-film buffs or anyone interested in classic world cinema. From the future emperor's first strategic victory, a schoolyard snowball fight, to the climactic invasion of Italy, Napoleon truly rules! This is no static, antiquated relic. Among Gance's innovations was to free the camera (for one battle scene, he had it mounted on horseback!). The film's justly celebrated climax features a triptych of synchronized images that anticipates by more than 30 years ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:'What can we say about Americans from the things they've made? When we look at them through the lens of their art, what do we see?,' host and acclaimed TIME magazine art critic Robert Hughes asks. This extraordinary series presents a panoramic view of American history as reflected by artists in every medium and genre, from 'primitive' portraits of the Colonial era to the complex visions of the present day. Explore the luminous, almost sacred work of early-American landscape ...
Editorial Product Review: :Who were the Mayans? The answer depends on who you ask. Legend has it that the gods made them from corn. Armchair cultural critics with little more than a page-long encyclopedia entry's worth of knowledge see them as a ritualistic, dynastic people with a strong penchant for boulder hackysack. Take an hour-long tour of Lost Kingdoms of the Maya with host Susan Sarandon, however, and you'll see a culture that defies any handy categorization. Composed of a web of ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Another reliably well-crafted, generally engrossing documentary from Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark employs the director's now-familiar approach to his subjects, from its elegant juxtaposition of period illustrations and portraits against newly filmed footage of historic sites to Burns's repertory of accomplished actors to provide gravitas for quotes from the key figures. Granted the formula has become familiar enough to allow parody, but Burns knows how to invest his historical investigations with movement and drama, making this four-hour ...
Editorial Product Review: :He's back! A man wandered into the Italian Alps about 5,000 years ago and never returned--until his astonishingly well-preserved body was discovered by hikers in 1991. Return of the Iceman by Nova looks at the scientific research--and political controversy--that emerged from this spectacular find. Using CAT scanning and carbon dating, scientists were able to learn much about the man's health and lifestyle, from the tools he used to the foods he ate, giving us much greater insight into the ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:The most successful public-television miniseries in American history, the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the 'Ken Burns approach,' its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, ...
Canon's XH A1 and XH G1 are excellent camcorders for entry-level professionals and independent filmmakers, with hard-to-beat prices for what they offer.
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