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Synopsis
The Learning Tree is a 1969 American coming-of-age film written, produced and directed by Gordon Parks, who also scored the film. It depicts the life of Newt Winger, a teenager growing up in Cherokee Flats, Kansas, in the 1920s and chronicles his journey into manhood marked with tragic events. Based on Parks' 1963 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, The Learning Tree was the first film directed by a Black filmmaker for a major American film studio, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
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Credits
- Producer
- Gordon Parks, Jimmy Lydon
- Director
- Gordon Parks
- Screenplay
- Gordon Parks
- Director of Photography
- Burnett Guffey
- Original Music Composer
- Gordon Parks
- Country
- United States
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