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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 ...
- Documentary filmmaker
- Robert Lincoln Drew, February 15, 1924, Toledo, Ohio
- 1955–2014
- July 30, 2014 (aged 90), Sharon, Connecticut
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 ...
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 30, 2014 · Robert L. Drew, a documentary filmmaker and the father of American cinéma vérité, died today at his home in Sharon, Connecticut. He was 90. In the early 1960s, Drew and his associates pioneered ...
Aug 1, 2014 · Robert Lincoln Drew was born in Toledo, Ohio, on Feb. 15, 1924, and grew up in Kentucky, where his father ran a seaplane business and taught his son to fly.
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Sep 1, 2015 · Robert Drew’s vision went far beyond his breakthrough film, PRIMARY, when he and Richard Leacock trained the world’s first sync-sound camera rig on John F. Kennedy campaigning for president. Drew set out to prove that there was a superior way Read More
