( If only this were a breaking news story, its my paper's August 16th, 1945 announcement of the end of WWII)
Two interesting concepts from WWII, advertisers promoting war bonds in an agressive fashion, in which American's actually paid for that war, unlike currently where China is funding the largest percent for our next generation to pay for.
Who is Ken Burns you might ask. Hopefully some of you know, but I will give the rest of you an introduction. Ken Burns is an independant documentarian that not even Michael Moore can compare to. I have followed his work for a while now, and his most recent work, which took six years to complete, began airing last week on PBS. "The War" is a series of detailed recollections of everyday people who had vastly different experiences from the start to finish. It's unique because it doesn't gloss over WWII as " the Good War". Miscalculations such as serving the troops Thanksgiving dinner in 1944, the life in internment camps for Japanese-Americans, the over-looked Pacific island battles that few have heard of. Four cities of varying size and location were selected to help illustrate how this War affected everyone from the smallest farming communities to the larger cities. Record it if you can, some episodes are a bit long to watch....
Meanwhile, I have made a small leap into documentary work too... Recently at my paper we have been thrust into doing videos of events, press conferences, etc. I do enjoy this different medium to work in, but choices have to be made that I don't like. Shooting still images and video is next to impossible to do at the same time. So I try the best I can to cover what I can.
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=730&NewsID=840300&CategoryID=3511&show=localnews&om=1
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=730&NewsID=838843&CategoryID=3511&show=localnews&om=1
Here are a few links to the better videos thus far.
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