Signed Memorabilia
SIGNED Ken Burns DOCUMENTARY and companion BOOK- "Baseball"
- Item Number
- 136
- Estimated Value
- 150 USD
- Sold
- 170 USD to ccaporale
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
Win this SIGNED 11 DISC DVD BOX SET AND COMPANION BOOK of famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' BASEBALL!
This ten part documentary follows the history of baseball from its inception in the 1840s through the 1990s, and includes a bonus film, "The Tenth Inning", a 2010 documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that follows the story of "Baseball" all the way to today.
"We divided our story into nine chronological chapters, or innings, and insisted as much as possible that the past speak for itself through contemporaneous photographs, drawings, paintings, lithographs, newsreels, and chorus of first-person voices read by distinguished actors and writers. We dissected the ballet of baseball with special cameras that ran at 500 frames a second (instead of 24); interviewed on-camera nearly ninety writers, historians, fans, players and managers: employed the services of twenty-one scholars and more than two dozen patient and talented film editors, delighted in getting to know one of the most remarkable men the game or this country has ever produced, Buck O'Neil; filmed for weeks with the gentle and generous people at the archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame; and hovered for hours above ancient diamonds in Iowa, West Texas, South Carolina, and a particularly beautiful old park built in a marshy area of Boston called the Fens." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for more than 30 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of Ken’s films, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” A December 2002 poll conducted by RealScreen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time.
This is a treat for any Ken Burns fan, baseball fan or both!
For more information about the documentary, click here.
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