Primary

11/08/1960

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0hr 53min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Drew
  • Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Muriel Buck Humphrey
  • Joseph Julian
  • Jacqueline Kennedy

    Directors

  • D. A. Pennebaker
  • Richard Leacock
  • Terence Macartney-Filgate

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Drew Associates

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English