Lobby card for The Learning Tree: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Lobby card for the 1969 movie The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks. The card features a large color image from the film with black bands running vertically along the left side and horizontally across the bottom of the card. The image depicts a scene of teenage boys at a county fair. The four boys stand at the back of a crowd gathered in front of a fair exhibit of an elaborately painted wall reading [FOXIE'S FABULOUS FREAKS]. A man stands in the center of the wall in front of a red curtained doorway with a megaphone and showman's baton. Below the image and to the left is [THE LEARNING TREE] in decorative pink font with last 'T' white and resembling a tree. Below this in small white type is [A film by Gordon Parks based on his novel.]. Along the bottom of the black band is casting and production information. Along the very bottom edge of the card is a copyright notice: [COPYRIGHT 1969 WARNER BROS. - SEVEN ARTS, INC.] and a licensing note from National Screen Service Corp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1969
• Created by: Warner Bros. Pictures, American, founded 1923
• Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
• Subject of: Gordon Parks, American, 1912 - 2006
• Subject of: Kyle Johnson, American, born 1951
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Kansas, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Literature
• Topic: Men
• Object number: 2013.96.1.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1969 Warner Bros., Seven Arts, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.