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Primary

1960 · NR · 53m

Directed by Robert Drew

6.5

TMDB audience score
42 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • John F. Kennedy
    Self

  • Hubert H. Humphrey
    Self

  • Jacqueline Kennedy
    Self

  • Robert F. Kennedy
    Self

  • Muriel Humphrey
    Self

  • Robert Drew
    Self

  • Joseph McBride
    Self - Kennedy Volunteer

  • Joseph Julian
    Narrator (voice)

  • Philleo Nash
    Self

  • Pierre Salinger
    Self (uncredited)

  • Clement John Zablocki
    Self (uncredited)