Primary
Director Robert Drew
Countries United States
Duration 60 min
Synopsis
An absolute and definitive portrait of the Kennedy couple, Primary brought two forms of innovation in terms of technique and subject to cinema. In addiction to the fact that it was the first film to sync sound and camera’s image (which allowed it to move freely on the ground), director Robert Drew tried also to accomplish here one of his longing projects: to film “a new kind of reporting, a new form of history” (a principle he brought from his experience as a reporter). For his first subject, he chose a young and promising senator who was running at the time for the Democratic presidential nomination in Wisconsin: John F. Kennedy. The result turned out to be a unique cinematic experience in the history of film and the beginning of what was to be called “cinema verité”.
An absolute and definitive portrait of the Kennedy couple, Primary brought two forms of innovation in terms of technique and subject to cinema. In addiction to the fact that it was the first film to sync sound and camera’s image (which allowed it to move freely on the ground), director Robert Drew tried also to accomplish here one of his longing projects: to film “a new kind of reporting, a new form of history” (a principle he brought from his experience as a reporter). For his first subject, he chose a young and promising senator who was running at the time for the Democratic presidential nomination in Wisconsin: John F. Kennedy. The result turned out to be a unique cinematic experience in the history of film and the beginning of what was to be called “cinema verité”.