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GORDON PARKS - Is the first Negro movie producer in Hollywood history. His film, “The Learning Tree’ will be released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts this fall. By Vincent Tubbs ^^.ordon Parks’ first feature length motion picture is not only a personal tour de force, it is also a precedent-making experience in nostalgia for every man. Titled “The Learning Tree”, the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts production in Technicolor and Panavision is based upon Parks’ autobiographical novel of the same name published in 1963 by Harper and Row. It is a story about one year in the life of a teenaged boy growing up in Smalltown, U.S.A. It is Huckleberry Finn. It is Tom Sawyer. Importantly, it is a statement about parent-child relationships. It is about two boys — one good, one bad. Its uniqueness is that it is about a black teenaged boy. Parks not only wrote the book. He has written the screenplay and the musical score for the film. As producer-director of W7’s “The Learning Tree” he is the first Negro to function in these capacities for a major studio in the history of the film industry. Parks thus adds lustre to a distinguished career/as a photo-journalist begun 20 years ago with Life Magazine, and a remarkable more recent side career as author of books and composer of classical music. Now “The Learning Tree” in movie form is a picture certain to bring goose pimples of recall to every adult who ever GORDON PARKS HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST NEGRO PRODUCER NEGRO STAR - Kyle Johnson, one of the youngest Negro stars in Hollywood history plays the youthful Gordon Parks. discovered a bird’s nest or an ant hill. Young Kyle Johnson, a startlingly competent 17-year-old newcomer to feature films, has the starring role portraying Parks himself as a boy. His opposite number, a boy destined to come to a bad end for lack of parental guidance, is played by another neophyte, 19-year-old Alexander Clark. The pivotal role of Sarah Winger, counterpart of Parks’ own mother, is played by vegeran New York stage actress Estelle Evans. To make the picture, which has 39 speaking roles about equally divided between blacks and whites, Parks took a 150-man cast and crew to his native hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas. In places familiar to him four decades ago and virtually unchanged through the years, Parks filmed the experiences of his childhood at the same swimming hole where he once swam, in the same church Continued on Page 32