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

Credits note

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
Faces of November (1964): photography, James Lipscomb, Sid Reichman, Al Wertheimer ; editor, De Nosworthy

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Language note: In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PerformerNote

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

Context

Context of The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates

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