Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera's lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.
Primary has generally received positive reviews.
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Primary was released in 1960 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving Primary (1960) an average rating of 68%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 73%. Professional critics were more impressed with Primary than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 68%, Primary is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1960, which stands at 62%.
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