Multimedia Collection
Primary
DVD
53 min
1960
JK2075 .W57 P75 2003 DVD
"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 day and night 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 cinéma vérité, and a template for ground-breaking films Drew would later shoot in the Kennedy White House.
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