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The
Kennedy Films
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Primary
- 1960 |
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Conceived, Produced, Directed by Robert
Drew,Managing Editor for Time Life Broadcast. Cameraman-editors
Richard Leacock, Al Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Terrence
McCartney Filgate.
Senator John F. Kennedy running for the Presidential
nomination of the Democratic party against Senator Hubert
H. Humphrey in the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. 52:50
minutes. Broadcast syndication. The first film in which
the sync sound camera moved freely with characters through
a breaking story.
Blue Ribbon Award, American
Film Festival; Outstanding Film, London Film Festival;
Best Documentary, Flaherty Award. |
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Adventures
on the New Frontier - 1961 |
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John F. Kennedy begins his presidency, the first candid
films ever shot of a President doing real work in the
White House. 51:45 minutes. Broadcast ABC, series title
"Close Up".
Co-produced by: Time Inc.,
Drew Associates. Executive Producer, Director Robert Drew.
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Crisis:
Behind A Presidential Commitment - 1963 |
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JFK in the White House making decisions during a crisis.
George Wallace stands in the school house door to try
to block the integration of the University of Alabama.
52 minutes. Broadcast ABC News
First Program, New York Film Festival, '63. First Prize,
International Documentary Exhibition Bilboa. Cine Golden
Eagle.
Produced by Drew Associates
Executive Producer: Robert Drew |
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Faces
of November - 1964 |
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The funeral of John F. Kennedy as seen in the faces
of those looking on. 20 minutes. Broadcast ABC.
First Prizes (2) in the Venice Film Festival, The Plaque
Lion St. Mark (television); The San Giorgio Statuette
(Theatrical Short Film).
Executive Producer: Robert
Drew. |
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Kennedy
vs Wallace:A Crisis Up Close - 1988-89 |
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Showdown between President John F. Kennedy and Governor
George Wallace seen with the Reactions of some key participants
20 years later. 52 minutes. Broadcast "American Experience",
PBS.
Executive Producer: Robert Drew. Co-producer:
Anne Drew |
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End of Kennedy Films
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The
Children Were Watching |
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The first week of school integration in New Orleans,
Louisiana, violent demonstrations of hatred by white parents
as their children looked on. 25:09 minutes. Broadcast
ABC News. |
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Petey
and Johnny |
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The story of a former gang leader and ex-convict turned
social worker, Piri Thomas, trying to save a gang leader,
Johnny, from death or prison.. 55:50 minutes.
"Outstanding Film," London Film Festival. |
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On
The Road to Button Bay |
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The roundup of 8,500 girl scouts in Vermont through
the eyes of an eight girl patrol from Kansas. 55 minutes.
Broadcast by CBS. |
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The
Chair |
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The fight by Louis Nizer to save Paul Crump from the
electric chair. 58:20 minutes.
Cannes
Film Festival Special Jury Prize; New York Film Festival
First Program.
Co-produced by: TIME-LIFE Broadcast, Drew
Associates
Executive Producer: Robert Drew. |
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The
Time of Our Lives |
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Pioneering magazine program including the first test
flight of the B-70. 56:40 minutes. |
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Storm
Signal |
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A young married couple with baby, in love and addicted
to heroin. 53 minutes.
First Prize, Venice Film Festival. |
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Mini-documentaries
for IBM broadcast as commercials |
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Saving the Birds, Teaching Reading, Helping the Blind,
Children's Hospital, School Bus, State Legislature,
Pittsburg Kansas, Mississippi, Typewriter, Oceanography,
Junior Achievement, Ohio River,Conserving Energy, Apollo
Soyez, Christmas Birds, Children Learn to Write by Dictating,
World Food Crisis. |
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The
Tall Ships Are Coming |
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Sail training in Europe by the captains and crews of
a half dozen tall ships preparing for a trans-Atlantic
race to the United States. 30 minutes. For IBM.Broadcast
PBS
Cine Golden Eagle. |
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Men
of the Tall Ships |
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A trans-Atlantic sailing race and grand entrance into
New York Harbor for "Op-Sail '76" as seen from
six tall ships. 56:18 minutes. |
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Parade
of the Tall Ships |
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The spectacle of the Tall Ships parading into New York
Harbor July 4, 1976. 21:49 minutes. For IBM Broadcast
PBS.
First Prize, American Industrial Film
Festival; Cine Golden Eagle. |
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Six
Americans on America |
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Mini-documentaries celebrating the Bicentennial, broadcast
by NBC as commercials for Mutual Benefit Life. Chatham,
Massachussets; Morristown, New Jersey; Savannah, Georgia;
San Antonio, Texas; Freelandville, Indiana; San Francisco,
California. |
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Fire
Season |
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A young Hispanic American boy leaves his gang in the
streets of Los Angeles to join the California Conservation
Corps and fight fires in the high Sierra mountains. 90
minutes. Broadcast PBS. Funded by The Corporation for
Public Broadcasting |
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784
Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation |
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90 minutes.
Peabody Award; Gold Award, International Film
& TV Festival of New York; Silver Gavel, American
Bar Association. |
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Warnings
From Gangland |
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A Los Angeles gang attacks a grocer and his family who
fight back with the aid of the police and the courts.
58 minutes. Broadcast "Frontline", PBS. |
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Marshall
High Fights Back |
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How two principals fight back chaos and violence to
change a central city high school from one of the worst
to one of the best schools in Chicago. 58 minutes. Broadcast
PBS.
First Prize, Educational Writers Association;
Emmy Nomination; Cine Golden Eagle. |
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Shootout
on Imperial Highway |
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Los Angeles gang goes to jail where its members tell
their side of their war with a grocer, his family and
the police, all of whom meet again in a Los Angeles courtroom.
58 minutes. Broadcast "Frontline", PBS. |
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For
Auction: An American Hero |
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Auctioneer travels Nebraska disposing of farms, farmers
and one of America's great traditions. 58 minutes. Broadcast
PBS.
duPont/Columbia Award; Best Documentary. Emmy
Nomination. Nyon Festival; Special Recognition. Cine Golden
Eagle. |
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Your
Flight is Cancelled |
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World's busiest airport when a thunderstorm strikes.
45 minutes. Broadcast "Frontline", PBS.
Emmy Nomination, '88. |
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The
Militia Man |
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Militia leader threatens officials of a rural Montana
community, including a judge who is a single mother of
three children. The judge and townspeople fight back.
Trials ensue. Militia men go to prison but the threat
goes on. |
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From
Two Men and a War |
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Bob Drew’s war as a teen age fighter pilot, room
mate of Ernie Pyle and how the experience influenced his
development of Cinema Verite. |
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