A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy | |
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Genre | Documentary/Special |
Written by | Jacqueline Kennedy |
Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 1 |
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Producer | Perry Wolff |
Original release | |
Network | CBS, NBC, ABC |
Release | February 14, 1962 |
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a
The program showed Kennedy on a tour of the house with CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood. The videotaped tour was the first glimpse the American public had of the $2 million restoration of the White House that the first lady had helped direct in the first year of her husband's presidency.[2]
The broadcast was seen by more than eighty million viewers and syndicated globally to 50 countries, including China and the Soviet Union.[2]
Notes for the televised tour were among Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers that were publicly released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2012. She specified in those papers that the names of individual donors who had contributed to the costs of the renovation were included in the script.[2]
Background
Kennedy had been the
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JFK Library , 1:19:43, a half-hour clip starts at 4:01 |
Aftermath
The success of the film led to other documentaries aimed at a female audience, including The World of Sophia Loren, The World of Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor in London, all of which drew significant numbers of viewers. The success of the film of Kennedy's White House tour has been analyzed from a feminist film perspective, as it appealed to "women's fantasies about living a more public life while largely 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 women in the latter part of the 1960s.[1]
The success of the program inspired
Kennedy and Perry Sidney Wolff co-authored a book with the same title, based on the documentary film, published by Doubleday in 1962.[7]
The film won Schaffner the Directorial Achievement Award for 1962 from the
References
- ^ a b c d Curtin, Michael. "Television". A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Jackie Kennedy's devotion to White House revealed". CBS News. February 14, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Troy, Gil (2006). "Jacqueline Kennedy's White House Renovations". In Watson, Robert W. (ed.). White House Studies Compendium, Volume 2. Nova Publishers. pp. 319โ326.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-135-19479-6.
- ^ "A Tour of the White House (TV Movie 1962)". IMDb.
- ^ "Television". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ Kennedy, Jacqueline; Wolff, Sidney Perry (1962). A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Doubleday. p. 258. Retrieved April 22, 2015 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-8144-7455-6– via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-0-231-51218-3– via Google Books.