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Robert Lincoln Drew (February 15, 1924 – July 30, 2014) was an American documentary filmmaker known as one of the pioneers—and sometimes called father [1] [2] —of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his films, Primary and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, have been named to the National Film Registry ...
Robert Lincoln Drew was born Feb. 15, 1924, in Toledo and grew up mostly in Fort Thomas, Ky. Among other things, his father ran a seaplane business on the Ohio River.
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Jul 31, 2014 · The Godfather of Cinéma Vérité. By Richard Brody. July 31, 2014. No filmmaker has changed his branch of cinema more drastically, enduringly, or quietly than did Robert Drew, who died yesterday ...
Jul 31, 2014 · Last modified on Thu 15 Feb 2018 07.09 EST. The pioneering documentary film-maker Robert Drew died on Wednesday, aged 90. Drew, a key figure in the development of “direct cinema”, the low-key ...
Aug 7, 2014 · Robert Drew (right, with microphone) working on Primary (1960), shot during the Wisconsin presidential primary and featuring the Democratic candidates, John F Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.
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Jul 30, 2014 · Robert Drew was a filmmaker who created the reality filmmaking style of cinéma vérité, also known as direct cinema. He made more than 100 films, including \"Primary\" and \"Crisis\", and won numerous awards and honors.
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As an editor at Life Magazine in the 1950s, Robert Drew specialized in the candid still picture essay. As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard he worked out theories for a filmmaking based on candid photography in motion pictures. He assembled a group of journalists and filmmakers — among them Richard Leacock, Gregory Shuker, D.A. Pennebaker, Read More
