The Grand Premiere
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 4m 50s
An unprecedented crowd turned out for opening night of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta
The premiere of the blockbuster movie Gone With the Wind took place in Atlanta on December 15, 1939. With crowds swelling to the hundreds of thousands, it was apparent the South had been waiting a long time for this moment. For many, Margaret Mitchell's story of survival helped to redeem the South from decades of pain and suffering experienced after the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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The Grand Premiere
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 4m 50s
The premiere of the blockbuster movie Gone With the Wind took place in Atlanta on December 15, 1939. With crowds swelling to the hundreds of thousands, it was apparent the South had been waiting a long time for this moment. For many, Margaret Mitchell's story of survival helped to redeem the South from decades of pain and suffering experienced after the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Clip: 4/1/2012 | 3m | Margaret Mitchell was profoundly influenced by a violent race riot (3m)
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 3m 36s | The director of Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel talks about her creative process (3m 36s)
Is Gone With The Wind Literature?
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 3m 40s | Scholars and devoted readers of Margaret Mitchell's classic novel have been argue (3m 40s)
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Preview: 4/1/2012 | 1m 31s | Premieres nationally Monday, April 2 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) (1m 31s)
Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize Night
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 3m 25s | Mitchell received news of the prize by phone and hid from the press (3m 25s)
Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, Southern Suffragist
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 3m 1s | The most important person in Margaret Mitchell's life was her mother Maybelle (3m 1s)
Pat Conroy: My Mother and Gone With The Wind
Clip: 4/1/2012 | 4m 31s | Pat Conroy tells a poignant story of listening to his mother read Gone With the Wind (4m 31s)
Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 1
Clip: 2/26/2012 | 2m 36s | Watch Steve Brodner create a sketch of Cab to "Everbody Eats When They Come To My House" (2m 36s)
Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 2
Clip: 2/26/2012 | 4m 23s | Stever Brodner creates a sketch of Cab to "Minnie The Moocher" with a surprise at the end (4m 23s)
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