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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 —of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States.
Jul 31, 2014 · The pioneering documentary film-maker Robert Drew has died at the age of 90. Drew championed an observational style that avoided direct editing of subjects and the use of narrators. Known as...
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...
Sep 1, 2015 · How did Robert Drew develop his reality filmmaking ideas in the first place? The short version of the story begins with a kid born in Toledo, Ohio who is energized by the impossible. Drew quit high school just shy of graduation to fight Germany in WWII and joined the U.S. Army Air Corps as its youngest fighter pilot.
Jul 31, 2014 · No filmmaker has changed his branch of cinema more drastically, enduringly, or quietly than did Robert Drew, who died yesterday, at the age of ninety.
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.
Aug 1, 2014 · Robert Drew, an innovative filmmaker whose intimate documentaries captured compelling moments during the campaign and presidency of John F. Kennedy and whose unadorned style influenced...
