Primary

Primary

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 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 occuring.

Primary

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1960

Primary
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 occuring.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Drew Associates
Original title Primary
Directors Robert Drew
Writers Robert Drew

Cast

Robert Drew

as Self

Joseph Julian

as Narrator (voice)

John F. Kennedy

as Self

Joseph McBride

as Self - Kennedy Volunteer

Philleo Nash

as Self

Pierre Salinger

as Self (uncredited)

Clement John Zablocki

as Self (uncredited)