Nov 08, 1960
53 min
Full-HD

Primary (1960)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Drew Associates

Robert Drew

Self

Hubert H. Humphrey

Self

Muriel Buck Humphrey

Self

Joseph Julian

Narrator (voice)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self

John F. Kennedy

Self

Robert F. Kennedy

Self

Joseph McBride

Self - Kennedy Volunteer

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