Primary (1960)

overview : Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occuring.

Release Date : Nov 08, 1960

Runtime : 53m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : Drew Associates

Countries : United States of America

Keywords : usa president, election campaign, presidential election, staging, media, democracy