Lobby card for The Learning Tree

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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.

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