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Resident Produces Video: ‘Christmas in Sunnyside’

Dec. 18, 2014 Staff Report

A Sunnyside resident has put together a video titled “Christmas in Sunnyside”.

George Burles, who provides frequent videos to this site, shot it in the past week.

Christmas in Sunnyside, Queens, NYC from George on Vimeo.

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burl ives had facial hair BEFORE hipsters did!

This guys has mastered the ken burns effect!!! for those over 50′, thats a panning/zooming video technique that ken burns uses on still photos to give them some life like in the Civil War series.

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George Burles

Thanks to everybody for taking the time to view and comment. If anyone is interested, the vocalist is one of the finest American operatic sopranos of recent years, Maureen O’Flynn. She has sung at the Metropolitan Opera as well as many other famous opera houses around the world.

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Nice video, nice scenery, I wish more people helped make our neighborhood more festive.

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