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The learning tree / Warner Bros.- Seven Arts presents ; a film by Gordon Parks.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 034 326 disc 1-2 + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1107.
- Criterion collection ; 1107
- Standardized Title:
- Learning tree (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006--Film adaptations.
- Parks, Gordon.
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
- African American families--Kansas--Drama.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Kansas--Drama.
- Kansas.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Coming-of-age films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (37 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- stamping
- Edition:
- Two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English; open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural Dolby audio.
- digital
- optical
- sound
- stereo
- monaural Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 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.
- Participant:
- Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Burnett Guffey ; editor, George R. Rohrs ; music, Gordon Parks.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
- Wide screen (2.35:1).
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781681439013
- 1681439018
- OCLC:
- 1277081297
- Publisher Number:
- 715515267014
- CC3319DDVD The Criterion Collection
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