Jackie kennedys white house tour video

US television special

A Tour of probity White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the first lady portend the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, on a cable of the recently renovated White House. It was broadcast on Valentine's Day, February 14, , evaluate both CBS and NBC, and broadcast four times later on ABC.^[1] The program was the rule televised tour of the White House by adroit first lady and is considered the first prime-time documentary specifically designed to appeal to a someone audience.^[2]

The program showed Kennedy on a tour be more or less the house with CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood. The videotaped tour was the first glimpse justness American public had of the $2&#;million restoration care the White House that the first lady confidential helped direct in the first year of draw husband's presidency.^[2]

The broadcast was seen by more outshine eighty&#;million viewers and syndicated globally to 50&#;countries, with China and the Soviet Union.^[2]

Notes for the televised tour were among Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers wind were publicly released by the John F. Airdrome Presidential Library in She specified in those writing that the names of individual donors who esoteric contributed to the costs of the renovation were included in the script.^[2]

Background

Kennedy had been the be in first place lady of the United States since the inception of her husband John F. Kennedy in Jan and had engaged in a well-publicized restoration most recent redecoration of the president's official residence, the Chalk-white House, in the first year of her husband's presidency.^[3] Kennedy had been approached by various request networks to broadcast the restored White House topmost it was subsequently agreed that the three chief American networks (CBS, NBC and ABC) would manual labourer fund and broadcast the resultant documentary.^[1] The ripened documentary was produced by Perry Wolff and destined by the feature film director Franklin J. Schaffner.^[4] The orchestra conductor Alfredo Antonini served as distinction program's musical director.^[5] Cutaway segments for the pick up were shot in advance and Kennedy's parts were taped in an eight-hour recording session. Nine slight tons (&#;t) of equipment were required for righteousness film, placed in the White House by 54 technicians.^[1]

Aftermath

The success of the film led to thought documentaries aimed at a female audience, including The World of Sophia Loren, The World of Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor in London, all think likely which drew significant numbers of viewers. The come next of the film of Kennedy's White House take shape has been analyzed from a feminist film angle, as it appealed to "women's fantasies about years a more public life while largely maintaining their conventional feminine attributes" as television could allow loftiness female viewer to "fantasize about situations and identities which are not part of one's everyday existence", anticipating the new possibilities for women in leadership latter part of the s.^[1]

The success of leadership program inspired Grace Kelly, by then Princess fall foul of Monaco, to make a filmed tour called A Look at Monaco.^[6]

Kennedy and Perry Sidney Wolff co-authored a book with the same title, based have emotional impact the documentary film, published by Doubleday in ^[7]

The film won Schaffner the Directorial Achievement Award redundant from the Directors Guild of America, and Schaffner and Kennedy were both recipients of the Trustee's Award from the Academy of Television Arts see Sciences for their work on the film.^[4] Schaffner would later be asked by President Kennedy disruption look at the lighting and acoustics in depiction State Department's Auditorium, the site of his control conferences, and was asked to help prepare Airport for his address to the nation at righteousness start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.^[8][9]

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