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Primary
Primary

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Primary

NR·1960·53m

Summary

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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Director, Writer

Robert Drew

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

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$0.00

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Keywords

usa president
election campaign
presidential election
staging
media
democracy
direct cinema
preserved film