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Uniform Title Learning tree (Motion picture)
Title The learning tree / Warner Bros.- Seven Artsn presents ; a film by Gordon Parks.

Publication Info. [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD LEARNING DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD LEARNING TREE DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Edition Two-DVD special edition.
Description 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (37 pages)
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
polychrome rdacc
color
stamping rdapm
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
sound rdasco
stereo rdacpc
5.1 Dolby Digital
wide screen rdaar
NTSC rdabs
video file rdaft
DVD video
region 1 rdare
Motion pictures lcgft
Series Criterion collection ; 1107
Criterion collection ; 1107.
System Details DVD, NTSC region 1; wide screen 2.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural Dolby audio.
Language Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Cast Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans.
Credits Director of photography, Burnett Guffey ; editor, George R. Rohrs ; music, Gordon Parks.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Summary Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers nostalgia with an incisive understanding of the harsh realities, hard-won lessons, and often wrenching moral choices that shape the road to self-determination of the young Black man at its center.
Note Special features: New documentary on the making of the film; New conversation, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie; My father: Gordon Parks, a documentary made on the set of The learning tree; Diary of a Harlem family and The world of Piri Thomas; Unstoppable (2005): a documentary; trailer; How it feels to be black; excerpt from the director's 2005 book, A hungry heart: a memoir.
Subject African American families -- Kansas -- Drama.
Kansas -- Drama.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Genre/Form Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, film director, screenwriter, film producer, composer (expression)
Johnson, Kyle, 1951- actor.
Clarke, Alex, 1949-2010, actor.
Evans, Estelle, 1906-1985, actor.
Film adaptation of (work): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006. Learning tree.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
ISBN 9781681439013
1681439018
Standard No. 715515267014
Music No. CC3319DDVD The Criterion Collection
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