Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film
by Ric Burns
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Actor: Ansel Adams, Barbara Feldon, David Ogden Stiers, Eli Wallach, Josh HamiltonDirector: Ric Burns
Brand: PBS
Cinematographer: Buddy Squires
Cinematographer: Jon Else
Cinematographer: Michael Chin
Producer: Ric Burns
Writer: Ric Burns
Editor: Li-Shin Yu
Producer: Adrienne Bramhall
Producer: Annette Handley
Producer: Inness Wei
Producer: Kate Roth Knull
Producer: Margaret Drain
Producer: Marilyn Ness
Producer: Mark Samels
Producer: Steve Rivo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Home Video
Movie Reviews of Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film
Movie Review: A video biography of Ansel and his works
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD contains video that was directly copied from the PBS "American Experience" program. You can tell it was not touched up or enhance their fixed or anything else. I suspect that they were not planning on people having 46 inch televisions. The credits in the beginning part of the program are really fuzzy. But when it gets down to talking about Adams he gets down to talk about Adams and many of the photographs mysteriously get sharper. We get so engrossed in the subject matter both Adams and his pictures that we know longer care one way or the other were sharp or not.
My only complaint is that it was in a soundbite form. I don't know who designed the program that but they could have focused on one person or another instead of person A, and B, and C, and a, and B, and c, again and again and so forth so forth so forth. It breaks the continuity of thought.
For me the experience is enhanced because I've been to most of these places several times. I hope to go back again. I've also been intrigued with the mechanics of photography before it became the digital age. I'm now still interested in digital photography. But photography aside by the time that you get to the end of this program you will feel that you've lost your only friend.
This presentation gave me a different way of looking at life and being conservative with what nature has brought us.
American Experience: The Wizard of Photography
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