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Primary

Primary

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1960

Runtime

0h 53m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

64%

Original Title

Primary

Production Companies

Drew Associates

Director

Robert Drew

Description

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.