A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy

 

This compendium of images starts letting us know that John F. Kennedy is, at least for cinema, one of the most important American presidents. The reason is that he was the first one from whom tons of images recorded with simultaneous sound are kept, due to the appearance of the first light cameras and sound equipments in his time. Jean-Louis Comolli says that the possibility of filming at the same time the words of any individual and his body turned “legible the multiple ways (unexpected if n [...]

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90 min

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