On Demand
Survival Kit
Friday, November 21, 2003
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Ken Burns
Ken Burns is no stranger to the idea of enforced isolation. He spent five and a half years working on his epic documentary "The Civil War," longer than the war itself, and for much of that time he was holed up in a tiny apartment away from his family. He has celebrated all things American in his series on Baseball and Jazz, and in his shorter films "The Brooklyn Bridge," "The Statue of Liberty," "Mark Twain," "Huey Long," and others. He’s even retraced the steps of Lewis and Clark and documented the first cross-country car trip in "Horatio’s Journey." Let’s find out what he would do with an unbroken stretch in a remote place, and what he’d put in his cultural Survival Kit.
His list:
1. A picture of his daughters and fiancée
2. Emerson’s essays
3. Louis Armstrong’s “Hot Five and Hot Sevens” recording
4. Cable access to the Boston Red Sox
1. A picture of his daughters and fiancée
2. Emerson’s essays
3. Louis Armstrong’s “Hot Five and Hot Sevens” recording
4. Cable access to the Boston Red Sox
