The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates. [Disc 1], Primary. Adventures on the new frontier
2016
DVD
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781681431376
Description:
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 1.0
- fullscreen
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
Other Title:
- Primary [DVD]
- Adventurers on the new frontier [DVD]
- Container of (work): Primary (Motion picture : 1960)
- Container of (work): Adventures in reporting. Adventures on the new frontier.
- Adventures on the new frontier.
Notes:
- Titles from title frames.
- 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, Anita Posner, Stephen Schmidt, Peggy Lawson, Larry Moyer, George Johnson, Irwin Denis.
- Primary: narrator, Joseph Julian.
- Adventures on the new frontier: correspondents, Lee Hall, Gregory Shuker, David Maysles ; narrator, Joseph Julian.
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; fullscreen, 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
- In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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 ; filmmakers, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kenneth Snelson (52 minutes) (1961).
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2612D
UPC: 715515174411
Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection ; 808.
- The Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection ; 808
Subjects:
- Drew, Robert, 1924-2014.
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960.
- United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998.
Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- ABC News, production company.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- Denis, Irwin, (Editor), editor of moving image work.
- Drew Associates, production company.
- Drew, Robert, 1924-2014, film producer, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
- Farren, Robert, (Film editor), editor of moving image work.
- Johnson, George A, (Editor), editor of moving image work.
- Julian, Joseph, 1910-1982, narrator.
- Lawson, Peggy, editor of moving image work.
- Leacock, Richard, director of photography, filmmaker.
- Lipscomb, James, narrator, director of photography.
- Macartney-Filgate, Terence, director of photography.
- Maysles, Albert, director of photography, filmmaker.
- Moyer, Larry, (Film editor), editor of moving image work.
- Pennebaker, D. A., director of photography, filmmaker.
- Posner, Anita, -2020, editor of moving image work.
- Reichman, Sidney, director of photography.
- Ryden, Hope, filmmaker.
- Schmidt, Stephen, editor of moving image work.
- Shuker, Gregory, producer.
- Snelson, Kenneth, 1927-2016, filmmaker.
- Time, Inc., production company.
- Wertheimer, Alfred, director of photography.