![[Book #148782] The Learning Tree. Gordon Parks, Alex Clarke Kyle Johnson, Dana Elcar, Estelle Evans, screenwriter director, novel, starring.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/148782.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787816413)
The Learning Tree
Los Angeles: Showtime, 1984. Vintage studio still photograph from the Showtime 1984 television re-release of the 1969 film, showing actor Newt Wingis. With a manuscript annotation regarding layout to the verso.
Based on director Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American, and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on African American life, depicting the life of a teen in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community.
Set in Kansas, and shot there on location.
8 x 10 inches. Lightly toned to the edges, else about Fine.
National Film Registry.
[Book #148782]
Price: $25.00