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

French title: Les sentiers de la violence. Paris: Warner Brothers, [1969]. Vintage original 63 x 47″ (160 x 120 cm.) grande affiche poster, France. Folded as issued, near fine. Artwork by French painter, poster artist and illustrator Jean Mascii.

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.