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Primary
Year: 1960
Time: 53
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Adventures on the New Frontier
Year: 1961
Time: 52
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Streaming Options
Crisis
Year: 1963
Time: 53
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Faces of November
Year: 1964
Time: 12
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Primary
| Adventures on the New Frontier
| Crisis
| Faces of November
Licensor
Drew Associates, Inc.
Directed by: Robert Drew
Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an amazing team—including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles—that would transform documentary cinema. In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy—Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis—and, following the president’s assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and featuring the greatest close-up footage we have of this American icon.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio:
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
1
Discs:
2 Discs |
DVD-9
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Supplements
- Alternate, twenty-six-minute cut of Primary, edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock
- Audio commentary on the Leacock edit of Primary, featuring Richard Leacock and filmmakers Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, recorded in conversation with film critic Gideon Bachmann in 1961
- Robert Drew in His Own Words, a new documentary featuring archival interview footage
- New conversation between D.A. Pennebaker and Jill Drew, Robert Drew
- Outtakes from Crisis, along with a discussion by historian Andrew Cohen, author of Two Days in June
- New conversation about Crisis featuring former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and Sharon Malone, Holder
- New interview with Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of Power
- Footage from a 1998 event at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, featuring Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, and filmmaker Albert Maysles
- An essay by documentary film curator and writer Thomas Powers
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