This chapter depicts Robert Lincoln Drew (1924–2014) as one of the founding fathers of American “Direct Cinema”—a multi-layered and controversial response to the French Cinéma Vérité. In 1962, American television broadcast for the first time an actual image of a real person defining Documentary. In this TV item, Drew is seen and heard, in sync sound, innovatively defining Documentary to journalist Hanley Norins in accordance with his decade-long journalistic project. This televised event offered lively proof of the growing public interest in the emerging media persona of Drew and, more notably, his film Primary (1960), which by then was already considered a groundbreaking event in the history of television. Drew’s broadcast speech act, its daring logic, as well as the elaborate documentarological language game it solicited are this chapter’s subjects of inquiry.