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ART
1. Comment on the effectiveness of the introductory outdoor shots in the development of atmosphere and mood.
2. Did you like the exquisite fadeouts at the end of scenes?
3. Discuss Technicolor as a vehicle for tonal harmony. Did the color ever seem flat? Was the warmth and richness of color true to the period?
4. What interior decoration did you enjoy most? Was Scarlett's home too elaborate, even for her taste?
5. Design Twelve Oaks on a scale less grand.
6. Make a model of the O'Hara carriage of prosperous days.
7. Design a bride's costume for Scarlett's first marriage and one for her marriage to Rhett, showing the change in fashions 8. Name a lady's fashion book popular during the war. What decorative use has been made of prints from this book?
DRAMATICS
1. Was the presentation dramatic or narrative? Did this treatment accord with that of the novel?
2. What scene had the greatest dramatic possibilities? Did the director develop these possibilities to the fullest extent?
3. Did Scarlett's vow never to be hungry again seem a bit premature? Would it have been more effective if expressed after she had been worn down by work and worry?
4. What scene should you like to dramatize?
5. Did you have a feeling of anti-climax at any point?
GEOGRAPHY
The Setting
1. Locate Atlanta on a map of the United States.
2. What is a watershed? Explain.
3. How does the first scene in the photoplay immediately take the audience to the locale of the story ?
4. Show how the climate of the South is particularly suited to the growing of cotton and its cultivation by Negroes.
5. In what scenes did you observe the red soil which gave rise to the expression "the red old hills of Georgia?"
6. Atlanta has many literary shrines and points of historical interest. What can you find out about the Wren's Nest, Stone Mountain, Roswell, the Cyclorama, and Peachtree Creek?
HOME ECONOMICS
1. In what ways have the styles of today been influenced by those of Gone With the Wind? Can you explain why dresses of a by-gone day seem romantic and attractive, while those of a more recent period, say twenty-five years ago, appear merely old-fashioned? Find some old prints in Godey's Lady's Book or other similar references; compare the illustrations with those in a modern style book, and, if you can find
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