News Summary

• “The Hamptons’” nearly three-hour-long documentary first aired in two parts on ABC, in the summer of 2002, and which is now streaming, for a limited time, on the website Le Cinéma Club.
• The documentary consists of a collection of short vignettes, arranged according to summer’s chronological unfolding, and features a cast of recurring characters.
• The result was an intimate human mosaic, set in a highly distinct moment in time.