Primary

 ( Audio Sound Product ) 

Primary

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Specifications

• Primary available on August 06 2023 from Indigo for 36.99
  
• Primary available on September 22 2014 from Amazon for 17.49
  
• UPC bar code 767685956236 ξ2 registered August 06 2023
  
• UPC bar code 767685956236 ξ1 registered April 24 2015
  
• UPC bar code 767685956236 ξ3 registered August 25 2014
  
• Product category is Audio Sound
• Manufacturered by Docurama
  

• Sku # 76768595623
  

• Product weight is 0.25 lbs.
  

"A new kind of reporting, a new form of history," Robert Drew promised John F. Kennedy. He was proposing that a revolutionary, small camera and sync sound recorder live with Kennedy day and night for nearly a week during the climax of his 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary run against Hubert Humphrey. The resulting film, PRIMARY, turned out to be a cinematic experience unique in the history of fi A new kind of reporting, a new form of history, Robert Drew promised John F. Kennedy. He was proposing that a revolutionary, small camera operated by cameraman Ricky Leacock and sync sound recorder operated by himself, live with Kennedy day and night for A bygone era of political campaigning is the subject of Primary, a fascinating cinema verité portrait of a crucial step on John F. Kennedy's path to the White House. Using the most portable sound and film equipment available in 1960, pioneering documentarian Robert Drew and a crew of innovative, important filmmakers in their own right (including verité legends D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, and Albert Maysles) were given a week of round-the-clock access to Kennedy as he toured the cities and towns of Wisconsin, campaigning against rival front-runner Hubert Humphrey in the state's pivotal primary election. With minimal narration and ground-breaking, no-frills technique heretofore unseen in TV news reporting (this film originally aired as an ABC news special), Drew gives equal time to Humphrey, but it's obvious that JFK's charisma, and the quiet campaign-trail grace of his wife Jacqueline, would carry them to eventual victory. The intimacy of these images is astonishing, captured just before television would come to dominate the political process. With a "cliffhanger" ending, Primary was inducted into the Library of Congress' prestigious National Film Registry in 1990, and it's an essential companion to Drew's 1963 film Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment. --Jeff Shannon

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References

^ Primary (DVD, 2003) UPC 767685956236 (revised May 2016)
^ Primary Indigo. UPC 767685956236 (revised Aug 2023)
^ (2003). Primary, Docurama. Amazon. UPC 767685956236 (revised Sep 2014)