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The Landmark Film That Took Us On The Road To The Kennedy White House
"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 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 film, the first in the development of American cinema verite and a template for the groundbreaking films Drew would later shoot in the Kennedy White House.
Unlike the directed, narrated documentaries of the day, Drew's freewheeling photography moved with it's subjects and brought audiences straight into the action. It captured Kennedy
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