Primary
Film196053 min6.5/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Robert Drew
The 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
John F. KennedySelf
Hubert H. Humphrey
Jacqueline Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Muriel HumphreySelf
Robert DrewSelf
Joseph McBrideSelf - Kennedy VolunteerJoseph Julian
Joseph JulianNarrator (voice)
Pierre SalingerSelf (uncredited)Clement John Zablocki
Clement John ZablockiSelf (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Robert Drew
- Editor
- D. A. Pennebaker
- Editor
- Richard Leacock
- Director of Photography
- Richard Leacock
- Writer
- Robert Drew
- Producer
- Robert Drew
- Director of Photography
- Albert Maysles