Gordon Parks (screenwriter, director) THE LEARNING TREE [LES SENTIERS DE LA VIOLENCE] (1969) French poster

Paris: Warner Brothers, [1969]. Vintage original 63 x 47″ (160 x 120 cm.) grande affiche poster, France. Folded (as issued), near fine.

The Learning Tree was the first movie directed by an African American that was financed and distributed by a major studio. It was Gordon Parks’ first feature film, and adapted from his novel of the same name, an autobiographical work about a black teenager growing up in Depression-era Kansas.

The film was one of the first twenty-five movies selected in 1989 for preservation as part of the United States National Film Registry.

Poster artwork by French painter, poster artist and illustrator Jean Mascii.