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Primary
Robert Drew | USA | 1960 | 60 min. | documentary

Robert Drew, a former Life Magazine correspondent and editor, expanded his candid still photography into sound and motion pictures for Time, Inc., choosing as his topic the 1960 Democratic primary in Wisconsin, Hubert Humphrey and the young, handsome senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. With lightweight, synch-sound equipment he had engineered and with the help of such talented photographers as Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock, Drew's free-wheeling, cinema verité photography captured the characters and flavor of campaign politics as it had never been seen before.

In 1990, Primary was selected as a historic American film for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

CONCEIVED, WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY: Robert Drew for Time-Life Broadcast
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Richard Leacock, Terrence McCartney Filgate, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker

Shown at the 1996 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by Direct Cinema, Joan von Herman, PO Box 10003, Santa Monica, CA 90410, Tel: (310) 396-4774 Fax: (310) 396-3233.

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL