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A ‘Civil War’ for say publicly Masses : Filmmaker Reach Burns says his five-night, 11-hour PBS epic--five period in depiction making--is a tale read Everyman
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JR: Welcome to First Conversations, the podcast slash speaker series that puts a spotlight on the barrier breakers, glass ceiling smashers, and innovators who have helped shape modern life. Each of our guests is a trailblazer who cleared a path for others, and you'll get to hear more about what it took to get there.
I'm Jessica Rosenworcel, the Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, and my guest today really needs no introduction, but I'll do a short one anyways. Ken Burns is a renowned American documentarian known for his signature style of storytelling with archival footage, interviews, and narration. He has produced and directed so many award-winning documentaries, including The Civil War, Baseball, and The Vietnam War. And he has been honored for his first-of-their-kind documentaries with multiple Emmys and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
But how famous is he? Well, the film editing software on my phone has something called the Ken Burns effect, and he has been portrayed on The Simpsons multiple times. So we have high culture, low culture, and our shared history here. We have it all. What a treat.
So thank you, Ken, for joining me today. It's great to have you.
KB: It's my pleasure. Thanks
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Like Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, Ken Burns has a summer house on Lake Sunapee, in New Hampshire. The property is furnished with Shaker quilts and a motorboat; every July 4th, a fifteen-foot-long American flag hangs over the back deck. He bought the house in the mid-nineties, with money earned from “The Civil War,” his nine-part PBS documentary series, and its spinoffs. When PBS first broadcast that series, in a weeklong binge in the fall of 1990, the network reached its largest-ever audience. The country agreed to gather as if at a table covered with old family photographs, in a room into which someone had invited an indefatigable fiddle player. Johnny Carson praised the series in successive “Tonight Show” monologues; stores in Washington, D.C., reportedly sold out of blank videocassettes. To the satisfaction of many viewers, and the dismay of some historians, Burns seemed to have shaped American history into the form of a modern popular memoir: a tale of wounding and healing, shame and redemption. (The Civil War was “the traumatic event in our childhood,” as Burns later put it.) History became a quasi-therapeutic exercise in national unburdening and consensus building. Burns recently recalled, “People started showing up at the door, wanting to share their photographs of ances