Primary (1960)

Name: Primary
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1960-11-08
Duration: 53 min
Cast: John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Muriel Humphrey

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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Released 1960-11-08 · 53 min · Documentary

Directed by Robert Drew

Cast

John F. Kennedy as Self
Hubert H. Humphrey as Self
Jacqueline Kennedy as Self
Robert F. Kennedy as Self
Muriel Humphrey as Self
Robert Drew as Self
Joseph McBride as Self - Kennedy Volunteer
Joseph Julian as Narrator (voice)
Philleo Nash as Self
Pierre Salinger as Self (uncredited)
Clement John Zablocki as Self (uncredited)