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The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates
Title
The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.
ISBN
9781681431369
168143136X
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages, black and white portraits, 16 cm)
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from menu screen.
Fullscreen (1.33:1).
Special features: Alternate, twenty-six-minutes cut of "Primary", edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock; Audio commentary on the Leacock edit of "Primary", featuring 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 Pennebaker and Jill Drew, Robert Drew's daughter-in-law and the general manager of Drew Associates; Outtakes from "Crisis" featuring former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and Sharon Malone, Holder's wife and the sister of Vivian Malone, one of the students featuring in "Crisis"; 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 Drew, Pennebaker, Leacock, and filmmaker Albert Maysles; Plus: an essay by documentary film curator and writer Thomas Powers.
Primary (1960): photographers, Richard Leacock, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker ; managing editor, Robert Drew.
Adventures on the new frontier (1961): editors, Robert Farren [and six others].
Faces of November (1964): photography, James Lipscomb, Sid Reichman, Al Wertheimer ; editor, De Nosworthy.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Summary
In 1960, a filmmaking 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.
Variant and related titles
Primary (Motion picture : 1960)
Adventures in reporting. Adventures on the new frontier.
Crisis (Motion picture : 1963)
Faces of November.
Adventures on the new frontier.
Other formats
Also issued in DVD video format.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 808
Credits
Primary (1960): photographers, Richard Leacock, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker ; managing editor, Robert Drew.
Adventures on the new frontier (1961): editors, Robert Farren [and six others].
Faces of November (1964): photography, James Lipscomb, Sid Reichman, Al Wertheimer ; editor, De Nosworthy.
Performers
Primary: narrator, Joseph Julian.
Adventures on the new frontier: correspondents, Lee Hall, Gregory Shuker, David Maysles ; narrator, Joseph Julian.
Crisis: narrator, James Lipscomb.
Faces of November: correspondent, Tom Johnston.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A; Dolby digital 1.0; requires Blu-ray player.
Contents
Primary / conceived and produced by Robert Drew for Time-Life Broadcast ; writer, Robert Drew (53 minutes) (1960)
Adventures in reporting. Adventures on the new frontier / co-produced by Time, Inc ; co-produced by ABC News ; co-produced by Drew & Associates ; exective producer, Robert Drew ; filmmakers, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kenneth Snelson (52 minutes) (1961)
Crisis : behind a presidential commitment / produced by ABC News ; producer, Gregory Shuker ; executive producer, Robert Drew ; filmmakers, Richard Leacock, James Lipscomb, D.A. Pennebaker, Hope Ryden (53 minutes) (1963)
Faces of November / by ABC News ; producer, Gregory Shuker ; executive producer, Robert Drew (12 minutes) (1964).
Videorecording number
CC2611BD The Criterion Collection
CC2612BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Political films.
Short films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Drew Associates, production company.
Time, inc.
ABC News.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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