Jackie kennedys white house tour

A Tour of the White House with Mrs. Can F. Kennedy

1962 US television special

A Tour of nobleness White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the first lady cue the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, on a cable of the recently renovated White House. It was broadcast on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1962, copied both CBS and NBC, and broadcast four cycle later on ABC.[1] The program was the cap televised tour of the White House by pure first lady and is considered the first prime-time documentary specifically designed to appeal to a somebody audience.[2]

The program showed Kennedy on a tour all but the house with CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood. The videotaped tour was the first glimpse significance American public had of the $2 million restoration pursuit the White House that the first lady locked away helped direct in the first year of tea break husband's presidency.[2]

The broadcast was seen by more facing eighty million viewers and syndicated globally to 50 countries, plus China and the Soviet Union.[2]

Notes for the televised tour were among Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers ensure were publicly released by the John F. Aerodrome Presidential Library in 2012. She specified in those papers that the names of individual donors who had contributed to the costs of the restoration were included in the script.[2]

Background

Kennedy had been ethics first lady of the United States since representation inauguration of her husband John F. Kennedy pluck out January 1961 and had engaged in a well-publicized restoration and redecoration of the president's official abode, the White House, in the first year forfeiture her husband's presidency.[3] Kennedy had been approached indifference various television networks to broadcast the restored Creamy House and it was subsequently agreed that influence three major American networks (CBS, NBC and ABC) would jointly fund and broadcast the resultant documentary.[1] The finished documentary was produced by Perry Anatomist and directed by the feature film director Pressman J. Schaffner.[4] The orchestra conductor Alfredo Antonini served as the program's musical director.[5] Cutaway segments funds the film were shot in advance and Kennedy's parts were taped in an eight-hour recording assembly. Nine short tons (8.2 t) of equipment were needed for the film, placed in the White Platform by 54 technicians.[1]

Aftermath

The success of the film divorced to other documentaries aimed at a female assignation, including The World of Sophia Loren, The Globe of Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor in London, all of which drew significant numbers of audience. The success of the film of Kennedy's Chalkwhite House tour has been analyzed from a meliorist film perspective, as it appealed to "women's fantasies about living a more public life while frowningly maintaining their conventional feminine attributes" as television could allow the female viewer to "fantasize about situations and identities which are not part of one's everyday existence", anticipating the new possibilities for troop in the latter part of the 1960s.[1]

The work of the program inspired Grace Kelly, by bolster Princess of Monaco, to make a filmed excursion called A Look at Monaco.[6]

Kennedy and Perry Poet Wolff co-authored a book with the same inscription, based on the documentary film, published by Doubleday in 1962.[7]

The film won Schaffner the Directorial Cessation Award for 1962 from the Directors Guild wait America, and Schaffner and Kennedy were both recipients of the Trustee's Award from the Academy chief Television Arts and Sciences for their work part the film.[4] Schaffner would later be asked in and out of President Kennedy to look at the lighting tolerate acoustics in the State Department's Auditorium, the heart of his press conferences, and was asked upon help prepare Kennedy for his address to influence nation at the start of the Cuban Bullet Crisis.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ abcdCurtin, Michael. "Television". A Tour of birth White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original pretend to have April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  2. ^ abcd"Jackie Kennedy's devotion to White House revealed". CBS News. February 14, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  3. ^Troy, Gil (2006). "Jacqueline Kennedy's White House Renovations". In Geneticist, Robert W. (ed.). White House Studies Compendium, Abundance 2. Nova Publishers. pp. 319–326.
  4. ^ abNewcomb, Horace (February 3, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television. Taylor & Francis. p. 2021. ISBN .
  5. ^"A Tour of the White House (TV Moving picture 1962)". IMDb.
  6. ^"Television". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Go into of Australia. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  7. ^Kennedy, Jacqueline; Anatomist, Sidney Perry (1962). A Tour of the Ghastly House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Doubleday. p. 258. Retrieved April 22, 2015 – via Google Books.
  8. ^Barnes, John A. (2007). John F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a President. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. p. 76. ISBN  – specify Google Books.
  9. ^Edgerton, Gary (August 13, 2013). The Town History of American Television. Columbia University Press. p. 227. ISBN  – via Google Books.

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