History Main / TheKenBurnsEffect

* ''LightNovel/GrimgarOfFantasyAndAsh'' does something similar as well in some scenes, especially in the ending theme's animation.

* ''Anime/DotHackSign'' uses the LimitedAnimation variant of this trope.

* In ''Anime/HorusPrinceOfTheSun'', due to time and budget constraints some of the battles weren't animated, opting instead for fast-panning stills.

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[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''Series/TheCivilWar'' (1990) and other documentaries; his younger brother, Ric, who worked with him on ''The Civil War'', has also used it in his own documentaries, including ''The Donner Party'' (part of PBS' ''Series/TheAmericanExperience'' series). Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

* While Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}}-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3972 3972]] mostly uses StockFootage, at times it features static images being panned and zoomed. It's not called "Ken Burns presents: SCP-3972" for nothing!

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''The Civil War'' (1990) and other documentaries; his younger brother, Ric, who worked with him on ''The Civil War'', has also used it in his own documentaries, including ''The Donner Party'' (part of PBS' ''Series/TheAmericanExperience'' series). Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

* In ''Anime/HolsPrinceOfTheSun'', due to time and budget constraints some of the battles weren't animated, opting instead for fast-panning stills.

* ''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.

* ''Film/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal'', about the works of reclusive outsider artist Creator/HenryDarger, cuts the Darger's illustrations of his sprawling magnum opus into layers and pans across them at different speeds to create a parallax effect that makes the images look more three-dimensional.

* ''[[Film/DawsonCityFrozenTime Dawson City: Frozen Time]]'' uses this throughout. It also mentions that the TropeMaker was ''City of Gold''.

-->--'''WebVideo/IHateEverything''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqb80GVmfl4 Woody Woodpecker (2017) - The Search For The Worst]]

-->--'''IHE:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqb80GVmfl4 Woody Woodpecker (2017) - The Search For The Worst]]

* 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.

* As noted above, the TropeMaker was 1957 short film ''Film/CityOfGold'', which used pans and zooms of photos of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush to liven up the action.

* ''[[Film/DawsonCityFrozenTime Dawson City: Frozen Time]]'' uses this throughout. It also mentions that the TropeMaker was ''Film/CityOfGold''.

* ''[[Film/DawsonCityFrozenTime Dawson City: Frozen Time]]'' uses this throughout. It also mentions that the TropeMaker was ''Film/CityOfGold'' ([[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050255/ also a documentary about Dawson City, released in 1957]]), and that ''City of Gold'' inspired Creator/KenBurns.

** In fact, this effect is quite common on Website/YouTube. If you are uploading an audio recording but lack an accompanying video (for example, a song without a music video), you need some kind of video to go along with an audio. Many YouTube videos use the Ken Burns Effect to pan and zoom still pictures while the audio plays. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M this video]] (of an old Linda Ronstadt tune) for an example.

** In fact, this effect is quite common on YouTube. If you are uploading an audio recording but lack an accompanying video (for example, a song without a music video), you need some kind of video to go along with an audio. Many YouTube videos use the Ken Burns Effect to pan and zoom still pictures while the audio plays. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M this video]] (of an old Linda Ronstadt tune) for an example.

[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker Creator/KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries; his younger brother, Ric, who worked with him on ''The Civil War'', has also used it in his own documentaries, including ''The Donner Party'' (part of PBS' ''Series/TheAmericanExperience'' series). Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

[[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.

* ''American Experience'', another PBS documentary series, also uses this technique.

* ''Film/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal'', about the works of outsider artist Creator/HenryDarger, cuts the art of Darger into layers and pans across them at different speeds to create a parallax effect that makes the images look more three-dimensional.

* ''Film/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal'', a documentary about reclusive folk artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger Henry Darger]], uses this effect on the illustrations of Darger's enormous magnum opus to life. As the film goes on, it increasingly animates the still images to bring them to life.

* [[http://youtube.com/LcIj7dHIss0 This video]] describing [[https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/955767884634083328 a viral tweet]] uses this presentation, but bizarrely, instead of a variety of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' screenshots, there is only a screenshot of the family looking across a railing from the episode "Fland Canyon". What's even more odd is that it keeps zooming into the same specific area of the screen (the top right), with the exception of one iteration at 0:20, which awkwardly zooms into Homer's crotch instead.