Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 1 and 2

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?                                 He cut his umbilical cord   
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)                                                                                           Fort Scott, Kansas
3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?                                          That he probably wouldn't be able to go there because he was black.      
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?                                                                                      14    
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?                                                                                  Minnesota
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?                                                                                                     No
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?                                                                      He got a job at St. Pauls       
8. What is a "double exposure?"                                                                                                                The repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images     
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?                                                                                                                     World Heavyweight Champion 1937-1949     
10. What instrument did Gordon play?                                                                                                         Piano   
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?                                                                To combat poverty during the Great Depression
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?                                                                                                                                To photograph day-to-day life of people  
13. Who was Ella Watson?                                                                                                                           A female outlaw or rebel who was a photography subject of Gordon Parks
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?                                                             The Great Depression    
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?                                                                      Realism