Half Past Autumn: Gordon Parks Movie Questions

1. Gordon Parks was not alive when he was born, so the doctor wrapped a cloth around him and set him in an ice bath.
2. He was born in Kansas.
3. Ms. McClintok told him that very few Negros go to college, because they end up working as maids or in blue-collar jobs. She believed the education would be "wasted on him."
4. Gordon was 15 when his mom died.
5. He moved to Minnesota to live with his sister.
6. Gordon eventually graduated, but a lot later than students typically graduate.
7. He began his fashion career when photography clerks saw his work and suggested that he work for a women's clothing store owned by Frank Murphy.
8. Double exposure is a photography technique in which the shutter of the camera opens twice to expose the film. It results in two imposed images on the photograph.
9. Joe Louis was a professional boxer and the husband of Marva Louis. She was the one that encouraged Gordon Parks to visit Chicago and further his photography career.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The Farm Security Agency was created to improve the lifestyle of those whose lives focused on agriculture. The FSA hired photographers to depict the hardships of rural life.
12. Stryker's first assignment in D.C. was to go across to Louis Scarfeckled's restaurant and to eat there. 
13. Ella Watson was a cleaning maid for FSA.
14. The American Gothic House inspired Grant Wood's American Gothic, which in turn inspired Parks to take his most famous photograph of Ella Watson.
15. Gordon Parks learned to express the sense of injustice that African Americans experienced through his photography.