Where Black Is Too Beauiful
"I want a continuity of beautiful pictures and beautiful movement," insisted Photographer Gordon Parks about his first feature film, The Learning Tree. "I try to start each scene with a beautiful still photo and end each scene with a beautiful still photo." Indeed, there are many images of startling beauty in Parks' film, like the dappled summer light shining through the trees on a country lane. The Learning Tree's major problem is not with pictures but with people.
Adapting his own 1963 autobiographical novel about growing up as a black...
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