The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates. [Disc 2], Crisis. Faces of November

DVD 2016

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 Cinem...

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Drew, Robert, 1924-2014

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Death and burial

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

United States History 1961-1969

United States Politics and government 1961-1963

Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998

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Biographical films Documentary films Feature films Nonfiction films Short films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 808 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 808

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ISBN:

9781681431376

Description:

1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages, black and white portraits, 19 cm)
DVD video 4 3/4 in
digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 1.0
fullscreen
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Other Title:

Crisis [DVD]
Faces of November [DVD]
Container of (work): Crisis (Motion picture : 1963)
Container of (work): Faces of November

Notes:

Titles from title frames
Special features: 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
Faces of November (1964): photography, James Lipscomb, Sid Reichman, Al Wertheimer ; editor, De Nosworthy
Crisis: narrator, James Lipscomb
Faces of November: correspondent, Tom Johnston
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:

Crisis : behind a presidential commitment / produced by ABC News ; producer, Gregory Shuker ; filmmakers, Richard Leacock, James Lipscomb, D.A. Pennebaker, Hope Ryden (53 minutes) (1963)
Faces of November / by ABC News ; producer, Gregory Shuker (12 minutes) (1964)

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1926605

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715515174411

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