Mrs. Kennedy führt durchs Weiße Haus (1962) Online

Credited cast:
	Charles Collingwood	-	Himself - CBS News Correspondent
	Jacqueline Kennedy	-	Herself - First Lady and Hostess (as Mrs. John F. Kennedy)
	John F. Kennedy	-	Himself - President of the United States of America

Jacqueline Kennedy was aged only about thirty-one years of age when she became First Lady on 20th January 1961.

There was also an eerie moment that shook Jackie (2016) director Pablo Larraín when watching A Tour of the White House (1962) starring Jacqueline Kennedy. "Suddenly, when Jackie is in the Lincoln Bedroom, she starts to talk about what happened to Lincoln's widow after he was killed," the director recalled. "In a very strange way, it almost feels likes a premonition of what would happen to her. It seemed very important to me to include that moment, a sign of the weight she felt inside her."

According to Walter Cronkite, this TV special was the first ever to feature a woman as its star. This was former Democrat First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

This television program special was initially viewed by around 56-80 million viewers depending on the broadcasts considered.

The production of this TV special is depicted in the later theatrical feature film Jackie (2016).

Of A Tour of the White House (1962) hosted by Jacqueline Kennedy, Jackie (2016) director Pablo Larraín said: "When I saw the White House tour, I couldn't stop watching it. It said so much about Jackie and who she would become. I knew we had to add it to the film. She hadn't been on television before in that way, and it wasn't something she enjoyed but Jack encouraged her to do it - in part because she'd been wrongly criticized for spending tax payer dollars on the renovation, even though it was done with private funding. Yet, she was amazing, giving the tour in such a compelling way." Indeed, Jackie emphasized in her presentation that she felt the White House should not be thought of merely as the home and workplace of the President, but as a showcase for American history, art culture, and a place of national pride.

In 2012, the notes of President John F. Kennedy which he made for this TV special were publicly released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

For the later movie Jackie (2016), that film's production designer Jean Rabasse and his team thoroughly researched not only old footage but also the history of her famous televised White House Tour A Tour of the White House (1962)] so that the sets could exactly replicate what audiences saw. "I had an assistant who spent two months researching the name of every painting to find the height of each. It was amazing, the amount of research we had to do, but it was so important." Rabasse noted. "You had to see the beauty and splendor that Jackie [Jacqueline Kennedy] so wanted to share through her tour."

The DVD booklet for this TV special states: "Jacqueline Kennedy believed in the importance of history. She also understood the power of television. The televised tour of the 1961 White House restoration, led by Mrs. Kennedy, brought history to life in a bigger, broader way."

This television special, according to the film's DVD booklet, told: "The story of a nation, the achievements of its presidents and the artifacts of the White House were broadcast to a mass audience, making the White House not just a private residence but a public treasure."

At the time it was made and first broadcast, this program "was the most successful documentary CBS had ever presented", according to the film's DVD booklet.

For recreating the tour in the later movie Jackie (2016), producer Mickey Liddell said he was skeptical at first of cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine's plan to meld old and new footage. "Stéphane [cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine] and Pablo [director Pablo Larraín] proved me wrong," he admitted. "They found a way to do it seamlessly. There is a famous shot from the funeral procession, for instance, that is overlaid with the film, and it is integrated in a way I've never seen. They did it with the White House tour as well, to perfection."

The DVD features a special introduction by renowned American television news anchorman Walter Cronkite together with additional background content archival film.

This TV special was syndicated around the world to about fifty nations which included China and Russia.

This tour of the White House hosted by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy does not feature the Oval Office as did the later Where History Lives: A Tour of the White House (2004) hosted by later First Lady Laura Bush.

This television special was premiere broadcast on Valentine's Day on 14th February 1962.

One exciting challenge for Jackie (2016) editor Sebastián Sepúlveda was splicing together the real footage of Jacqueline Kennedy's White House tour [A Tour of the White House (1962)] with Natalie Portman's performance. He said: "The idea we had for the White House tour was to play with the audience, so that the audience cannot really know which one is original footage or our footage. There are so many layers because you have Jackie performing for the camera but you have Natalie playing this character doing a performance. It was a lot of fun to play with all the points of view."

The photographic challenges for the later movie Jackie (2016) were many, including the need to hark back to 1960s cinematic technology. To re-enact the historic "The Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy" [A Tour of the White House (1962)], director Pablo Larraín wanted to use vintage cameras to achieve a look that no longer even exists. "It was a big challenge to get that footage to look and feel exactly how it was, right down to the lighting. Color TV cameras then used a technology that separated the reds, blues and greens and converted them into television signals - so they had a very distinctive period look. When I did the movie No (2012), we used the same kind of technology, and I still had that camera at home. So I brought it to Stéphane [cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine] to shoot the tour and then we later treated it digitally," Larraín explained.

A 16mm color version of this television special was made available for non-theatrical distribution but has never been released on DVD.

This TV special was premiere broadcast on two American television networks, on both CBS and NBC, and then aired four days later on a third U.S. TV network, at ABC.

Soon, about a couple of years after this TV special, its director, Franklin J. Schaffner, directed the movie version of Gore Vidal's stage-play The Best Man (1964), where two front runners for an unnamed American political party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.

The DVD of this TV program special was produced to commemorate the exhibition "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years - Selections from The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum".

The suit that former Democrat First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wore during the tour was exhibited and has been seen in the exhibition "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years - Selections from The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum" and is viewable in color in the non-theatrical 16mm versions

The type of clothing that former Democrat First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wore during the tour was a dark red, two-piece, bouclé wool dress, an outfit which can be seen on movie posters for the later movie Jackie (2016).

This TV special documentary when broadcast was the first ever televised tour of The White House in Washington DC.

The actual street address of the White House in Washington D.C. is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

This TV tour special was made in 1961 and first broadcast in 1962, so was filmed and then premiered during the presidency of Democrat American President John F. Kennedy who appears in this documentary.

The production utilized around eight to nine tons of filming equipment for filming this television special which included lights and cameras.

Reportedly, fifty-four technicians were involved in the production of this television documentary.

Cutaway segments of Democrat First lady Jacqueline Kennedy for this TV special were filmed in advance of principal photography.

President John F. Kennedy had been contacted about a television tour of the recently restored White House by a number of American television networks. In the end, three of them - CBS, NBC, and ABC - were involved in a joint production financing and broadcasting this documentary television special.

The principal photography of filming Democrat First lady Jacqueline Kennedy was a one day production involving an eight-hour taping and recording session.

Presidential Historian Barbara Perry said of this television production that it "introduced Jacqueline Kennedy to the American people in a way they hadn't seen her. She wanted to show people the entire process that she had worked through in the entire year that she had been first lady."

The renovation and redecoration of the White House by the Kennedy Administration as feature after its completion cost approximately US $2 million.

The popular success of this television special inspired Grace Kelly's A Look at Monaco (1963), about her new adopted country of the nation of Monaco, which premiered the following year in 1963.

Director Franklin J. Schaffner won the Directorial Achievement Award for 1962 from the Director's Guild of America.

According to CBS News, in the later movie Jackie (2016), director Pablo Larraín "meticulously recreated scenes from the tour and also included footage from the 1962 broadcast" of this film A Tour of the White House (1962).

Of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, TIME magazine reported in 1961 that "Jackie formed a Fine Arts Committee to help her transform the White House into a 'museum of our country's heritage'." The results of this renovation and redecoration were displayed in this television special.

According to TIME magazine, "only one scene had to be re-filmed; Jackie [Jacqueline Kennedy] momentarily confused a Dolley Madison sofa with one of Nelly Custis".

Star Jacqueline Kennedy wore a wireless microphone around her neck for this filmed production and carried the battery pack out of view with it being attached to her back.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy reportedly declined the services of a CBS television network make-up artist for this television special.

Press Secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Pamela Turnure, was shown how to adjust the microphone and battery pack if there were any physical problems during filming this program. CBS News Correspondent Charles Collingwood, who partakes on the tour interviewing Jackie, said: "We couldn't have a technician fiddling with the First Lady 's person."

The nick-name that the Kennedys - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Democrat President John F. Kennedy named the White House was "Camelot". Presidential Historian Barbara Perry said: "Camelot was not simply a myth, but rather it was an image that the Kennedys began before the president's death, and before Mrs. Kennedy ever applied that label."

CBS News have said of this filmed production in a Valentine's Day 14th February 2012 article by Norah O'Donnell which marked the 50th Anniversary of this 1962 television special: "The White House tour marked a turning point in television history. It was seen as the first prime-time documentary explicitly marketed toward a female audience - and helped make Mrs. Kennedy [Jacqueline Kennedy] an instant celebrity both in the U.S. and around the world." Presidential Historian and CBS News Consultant Douglas Brinkley said that this program "made her America's sweetheart that Valentine's Day - a place that she has held for 50 years."

Producer Perry Wolff authored a book with commentary from Jacqueline Kennedy which had the same title as this filmed television production ("A tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy"), with the book being based on this TV special. The book was first published by Doubleday in the same 1962 year as this TV special first premiered. It's front dust-jacket features the TV program's star First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in her distinctive red dress and features the following blurbs: "Fully illustrated" ; "8 pages in color"; "More than 150 photographs" ; and "Based on the television program of the same name". Another edition of the book, the 1963 paperback edition, featured a dust-jacket which had a text preamble that read: "The story of the president's house from George Washington to John F. Kennedy including Mrs. Kennedy's own commentary and with over 150 photographs".

CBS News Consultant Charles Collingwood, who anchors this television tour special starring First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and featuring Democrat President John F. Kennedy, later was the narrator in the CBS News segment "Four Dark Days", about the assassination of President Kennedy, which is included in both John F. Kennedy (1981) and the John F. Kennedy: The Commemorative Video Album (1988) compilation videos.

A challenge for Jackie (2016) costume designer Madeline Fontaine was the dark red, two-piece, bouclé wool dress Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) wears during her White House tour depicted in the black-and-white A Tour of the White House (1962) that most people only associate with the grayed-out 1960s television image. "There does in fact exist some photos of the dress in color so we were able to see the original red. But we had to make two different pieces, one red and one pink, to get just the right shade of gray for the black and white television images," Fontaine explained.

John F. Kennedy: As himself.

At one point on the tour, First Lady refers to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Tragically, her own husband, American Democrat President John F. Kennedy, who appears in this 1962 television special, would be assassinated the following year.

Both Democrat President John F. Kennedy in A Tour of the White House (1962), and Republican President George W. Bush in the later Where History Lives: A Tour of the White House (2004), do not appear until the end of both documentary programs.