Primary

Primary

Primary

Genres
Documentary

Release Date: Nov 08, 1960

Runtime: 53 minutes

Rating: 6.4/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Drew Associates

Overview

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.

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Cast

John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Muriel Humphrey ,

Robert Drew, Joseph McBride, Joseph Julian, Philleo Nash, Pierre Salinger, Clement John Zablocki

Crew

Robert Drew, D. A. Pennebaker, D. A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker ,

Robert Drew, Albert Maysles, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Robert Drew, Robert Drew