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Ken Burns’ First Film: Brooklyn Bridge, 1981
Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Brooklyn Bridge was Ken Burn’s first film to be broadcast on PBS (1981) and it received an Academy Award nomination in 1982–it hasn’t been rebroadcast in years, but you can see two clips online (interviews with architecture critic Paul Goldberger and writer/master explainer David McCullough).

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