History Main / TheKenBurnsEffect

* Ken Burns was the TropeCodifier with ''The Civil War'', which was all photos and TalkingHeads, but he uses it in all his documentaries, starting with ''Film/BrooklynBridge'' (1981), continuing on through ''Film/TheStatueOfLiberty, ''The Civil War'', and others, and including projects such as ''Prohibition'', ''The War'', and ''Series/TheVietnamWar'' that have plenty of live-action footage.

* Ken Burns was the TropeCodifier with ''The Civil War'', which was all photos and TalkingHeads, but he uses it in all his documentaries, starting with ''Film/BrooklynBridge'' (1981) and including projects such as ''Series/TheVietnamWar'' that have plenty of live-action footage.

** ''Four Days in November'', a 1964 theatrical release, uses this when showing stills.

* Used extensively in ''[[Film/{{Amy 2015}} Amy]]'', possibly because that film eschews another documentary trope, TalkingHeads. One particularly chilling instance has a Ken Burns pan on a grainy photo of Music/AmyWinehouse suddenly freeze as her friends talk about her first overdose.

* Ken Burns was the TropeCodifier with ''The Civil War'', which was all photos and TalkingHeads, but he uses it in all his documentaries, starting with ''Film/TheBrooklynBridge'' (1981) and including projects such as ''Series/TheVietnamWar'' that have plenty of live-action footage.

* Ken Burns was the TropeCodifier with ''The Civil War'', which was all photos and TalkingHeads, but he uses it in all his documentaries, including projects such as ''Series/TheVietnamWar'' that have plenty of live-action footage.

* Similar to the Sadie Thompson example above, many official and fan-made reconstructions of missing Series/DoctorWho episodes use this technique on set photos and sceencaps (alongside clips from existing episodes, CGI, and composited images) timed to the existing audio.

* This effect was used for the old-timey photos shown in the opening credits of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', as well as the intro to the final season of Series/TheVirginian ("The Men from Shiloh").

Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "Filmation Pan," because [[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] made such frequent use of it (for example, Kirk delivering his "Captain's Log" summary as we slowly pan across a painted alien landscape in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries).''

Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "Filmation Pan," because [[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] made such frequent use of it ''(e.g.,'' Kirk delivering his "Captain's Log" summary as we slowly pan across a painted alien landscape in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries).''

Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "Filmation Pan," because [[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] made such frequent use of it ''(e.g.,'' Kirk delivering his "Captain's Log" summary as we slowly pan across an alien landscape in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries).''

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique. Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "Filmation Pan," because [[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] made such frequent use of it (i.e., Kirk delivering his "Captain's Log" summary as we slowly pan across an alien landscape in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries).''

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique. Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "Filmation Pan," because [[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] made such frequent use of it.

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique. Among animators, this technique is sometimes called a "[[{{Creator/Filmation}} Filmation]] Pan," because Filmation made such frequent use of it.

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Walking}}'': Before all the shots of people walking, there are several stills of people not walking—sitting in cars, at home in apartments, waiting on a bus. The camera glides over these stills, which act in contrast to the exuberant motion of the people walking.
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* ''Film/{{Dillinger}}'' uses this for the opening credits, in which the credits play over a series of stills of the Great Depression as the camera pans and zooms. This is also used for a couple of [[TimePassesMontage Time Passes Montages]] within the movie.

* Both ''Manga/LadySnowblood'' and sequel ''Film/LadySnowblood2LoveSongOfVengeance'' have sequences with stills and drawings, a nod to the original comic, complete with pans and zooms.