Movie: Primary

Top 10 Billed Cast

Robert Drew
Robert Drew

Self

Joseph Julian
Joseph Julian

Narrator (voice)

Muriel Humphrey
Muriel Humphrey

Self

Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey

Self

Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy

Self

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

Self

Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy

Self

Joseph McBride
Joseph McBride

Self - Kennedy Volunteer

Philleo Nash
Philleo Nash

Self

Pierre Salinger
Pierre Salinger

Self (uncredited)

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    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 occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.

  • Release Date

    1960-11-08

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    6.4

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    3.2 starts
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