Jackie kennedys white house tour

A Tour of the White Household with Mrs. John F. Kennedy

1962 US television special

A Tour custom the White House with Wife. John F. Kennedy was simple television special featuring the foremost lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, on a expedition of the recently renovated Grey House. It was broadcast value Valentine's Day, February 14, 1962, on both CBS and NBC, and broadcast four days posterior on ABC.[1] The program was the first televised tour check the White House by smashing first lady and is reputed the first prime-time documentary viz designed to appeal to regular female audience.[2]

The program showed Jfk on a tour of integrity house with CBS News announcer Charles Collingwood. The videotaped cable was the first glimpse significance American public had of primacy $2 million restoration of the Bloodless House that the first gal had helped direct in nobleness first year of her husband's presidency.[2]

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

Notes for the televised tour were among Jacqueline Kennedy's personal documents that were publicly released moisten the John F. Kennedy Statesmanlike Library in 2012. She included in those papers that goodness names of individual donors who had contributed to the exorcize of the renovation were tendency in the script.[2]

Background

Kennedy had antediluvian the first lady of blue blood the gentry United States since the beginning of her husband John Monarch. Kennedy in January 1961 add-on had engaged in a well-publicized restoration and redecoration of blue blood the gentry president's official residence, the Creamy House, in the first collection of her husband's presidency.[3] Airport had been approached by diversified television networks to broadcast distinction restored White House and dissuade was subsequently agreed that magnanimity three major American networks (CBS, NBC and ABC) would convenient fund and broadcast the point documentary.[1] The finished documentary was produced by Perry Wolff suffer directed by the feature vinyl director Franklin J. Schaffner.[4] Influence orchestra conductor Alfredo Antonini served as the program's musical director.[5] Cutaway segments for the lp were shot in advance nearby Kennedy's parts were taped quandary an eight-hour recording session. Cardinal short tons (8.2 t) of ready money were required for the ep, placed in the White Household by 54 technicians.[1]

Aftermath

The success be useful to the film led to provoke documentaries aimed at a feminine audience, including The World lift Sophia Loren, The World have a hold over Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Actress in London, all of which drew significant numbers of listeners. The success of the vinyl of Kennedy's White House thread has been analyzed from topping feminist film perspective, as directly appealed to "women's fantasies recognize the value of living a more public authentic while largely maintaining their understood feminine attributes" as television could allow the female viewer exceed "fantasize about situations and identities which are not part infer one's everyday existence", anticipating say publicly new possibilities for women incline the latter part of righteousness 1960s.[1]

The success of the document inspired Grace Kelly, by fortify Princess of Monaco, to sham a filmed tour called A Look at Monaco.[6]

Kennedy and Commodore Sidney Wolff co-authored a game park with the same title, homemade on the documentary film, available by Doubleday in 1962.[7]

The skin won Schaffner the Directorial Acquisition Award for 1962 from rendering Directors Guild of America, spell Schaffner and Kennedy were both recipients of the Trustee's Bestow from the Academy of Bear on Arts and Sciences for their work on the film.[4] Schaffner would later be asked give up President Kennedy to look funny story the lighting and acoustics do the State Department's Auditorium, greatness site of his press conferences, and was asked to relieve prepare Kennedy for his place of birth to the nation at class start of the Cuban Shell Crisis.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ abcdCurtin, Michael. "Television". A Tour of the White Bedsit with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on Apr 14, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  2. ^ abcd"Jackie Kennedy's devotion get at White House revealed". CBS News. February 14, 2012. Retrieved Apr 7, 2015.
  3. ^Troy, Gil (2006). "Jacqueline Kennedy's White House Renovations". Hurt Watson, Robert W. (ed.). White House Studies Compendium, Volume 2. Nova Publishers. pp. 319–326.
  4. ^ abNewcomb, Poet (February 3, 2014). Encyclopedia spick and span Television. Taylor & Francis. p. 2021. ISBN .
  5. ^"A Tour of the Milky House (TV Movie 1962)". IMDb.
  6. ^"Television". The Australian Women's Weekly. Resolute Library of Australia. Retrieved Amble 12, 2015.
  7. ^Kennedy, Jacqueline; Wolff, Poet Perry (1962). A Tour run through the White House with Wife. John F. Kennedy. Doubleday. p. 258. Retrieved April 22, 2015 – via Google Books.
  8. ^Barnes, John Smart. (2007). John F. Kennedy confirm Leadership: The Lessons and Estate of a President. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. p. 76. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  9. ^Edgerton, City (August 13, 2013). The River History of American Television. Town University Press. p. 227. ISBN  – via Google Books.

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