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The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.
Title:
The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.
Added Title:
Primary.

Close-up.

Crisis : behind a presidential commitment.

Faces of November.
Series Number:
808.
Summary:
Four films document the 1960 presidential campaign and election, the struggle over desegregation, and the public's reaction to President John F. Kennedy's death.
Audience:
Not rated.
General Note:
Originally released 1960-1964.

Mono, full screen 1.33:1.

Essay by documentary film curator and writer Thomas Powers in container.

Features: alternate, twenty-six-minute 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; new documentary "Robert Drew in his own words" 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, 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's wife and the sister of Vivian Malone, one of the students featured 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.
Contents:
Primary (1960) / produced, written, and directed by Robert Drew -- Adventures on the new frontier (1961) / producer, Bo Goldman ; directors, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Kenneth Stilson -- Crisis : behind a presidential commitment (1963) / producer, Gregory Shuker ; director, Robert Drew -- Faces of November (1964) / directed by Robert Drew.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2016
ISBN:
9781681431376
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Call Number:
DVD 973.922 KENNEDY
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