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.
Contents
Primary / conceived & produced by Robert Drew for Time-Life Broadcast ; writer, Robert Drew (©1960) (53 min.) 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 ; correspondents, Lee Hall, Gregory Shuker, David Maysles ; reporters, Gerald Feil, Jean Snow ; executive producer, Robert Drew (©1961) (52 min.)Crisis : behind a presidential commitment / produced by ABC News ; executive producer, Robert Drew ; producer, Gregory Shuker ; filmmakers, Richard Leacock, James Lipscomb, D.A. Pennebaker, Hope Ryden (©1963) (52 min.)
Faces of November / by ABC News ; producer, Gregory Shuker ; correspondent, Tom Johnston ; executive producer, Robert Drew (©1963) (12 min.).
Additional Information
| Series | Criterion collection. |
| Subjects |
Kennedy, John F.
-- (John Fitzgerald),
-- 1917-1963.
Humphrey, Hubert H. -- (Hubert Horatio), -- 1911-1978. Kennedy, Robert F., -- 1925-1968. Wallace, George C. -- (George Corley), -- 1919-1998. Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald), -- 1917-1963 -- Death and burial. University of Alabama. Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960. Primaries -- Wisconsin. Civil rights -- United States. Civil rights movements -- United States. College integration -- Alabama -- History. Segregation in higher education -- Alabama -- History. United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963. United States -- History -- 1961-1969. Documentary films. Cinéma vérité films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | [New York, New York] :The Criterion Collection,2016 |
| Edition | Full screen. |
| Other Titles | Close-up (Television program) Adventures in reporting, adventures on the new frontier. |
| Contributors |
Drew, Robert,
1924-2014, editor of moving image work, film producer, screenwriter. Leacock, Richard, director of photography, film director. Pennebaker, D. A., film director. Maysles, Albert, director of photography, film director. Snelson, Kenneth, film director. Hall, Lee, contributor. Shuker, Gregory, contributor, film producer. Maysles, David, contributor. Feil, Gerald, contributor. Snow, Jean, contributor. Lipscomb, James, contributor, narrator. Ryden, Hope, filmmaker. Johnston, Tom (Journalist), contributor. Julian, Joseph, narrator. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963, on-screen participant. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, on-screen participant. Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968, on-screen participant. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998, on-screen participant. Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012, on-screen participant. Jones, Vivian Malone, on-screen participant. Hood, James A., on-screen participant. Time-Life Broadcast, inc., production company. Time, inc., production company. ABC News, production company. Drew Associates, production company. Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher. |
| Participants/Performers |
Primary: Narrator, Joseph Julian ; featuring, Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy. Adventures on the new frontier: Narrator, Joseph Julian ; featuring, John F. Kennedy. Crisis: Narrator, James Lipscomb ; featuring, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Nicholas Katzenbach, Vivian Malone, James Hood. |
| Other Contributors |
Primary: Photographers, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Terrence Macartney-Filgate, Albert Maysles ; managing editor, Robert Drew. Adventures on the new frontier: Editors, Robert Farren [and six others] Editing assistants, Nicholas Proferes, De Nosworthy. Faces of November: Photography, James Lipscomb, Sid Reichman, Al Wertheimer ; editor, De Nosworthy. |
| Language |
English In English; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH). |
| Notes |
Title from container. Adventures on the new frontier: At head of title on screen: Adventures in reporting. Films originally produced 1960-1963. Adventures on the new frontier originally broadcast on March 28,1962 as an episode of the television series: ABC Close-up! Accompanying booklet (1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm) contains the essay: Capturing the Kennedys / by Thom Powers. Special edition features: Alternate, twenty-six-minute cut of "Primary" / edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock; audio commentary on Primary, featuring excerpts from a 1961 conversation between Leacock, filmmakers Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, and film critic Gideon Bachmann; Robert Drew in his own words, a new documentary featuring archival interview footage; new conversation between Pennebaker and Jill Drew, general manager of Drew Associates and Robert Drew's daughter-in-law; 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. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 9781681431376 1681431378 |
| Other | Classic View |