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MITCHELL Margaret (1900-1949). Typed letter signed ("Margaret Mitchell Marsh") to Pierre Belperron, Librairie Plon, Paris; Atlanta, Georgia; 21 July 1947. 1 2/3 pages, 4to, on two sheets, printed heading on p.1.
"THE FIRST HALF OF THE FILM FOLLOWS MY BOOK IN EXCELLENT DETAIL..." To a French historian and translator, Mitchell reports on her efforts to obtain him a copy of Robert Henry's The Story of the Confederacy, temporarily out of print: "Mr. Henry and I both had a smile for your friend who said, concerning the Confederacy, 'he who is not with me is against me.' We have many such people in the South, and their attitude is so well known that they are called 'unreconstructed; or 'unreconstructed Rebels.' This term goes back to the Reconstruction era in the South, when it was applied to such people as Robert Toombs and other former Confederates who never took the oath of allegiance... and who remained 'Rebels.'"
"You asked why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had not brought the film of 'Gone With the Wind' to France after that single showing which took place immediately after the end of the war. I can only hazard a guess. The motion picture of 'Gone With the Wind' appeared in the United States for the first time at the end of 1939, and many printings of it were made. It was a very long film (four hours) and an expensive film to manufacture, as it was in technicolor. During the war most of the raw film produced...went first to our Government, so there was a shortage of Technicolor film during the war and afterward....The situation is much better now and only recently 'Gone With the Wind' has returned to Atlanta for the first time since early in the war. It has been playing to crowded theatres, I understand it will be released in European theatres in the autumn...The first half of the film follows my book in excellent detail. The last half was shortened and incidents omitted or changed....Many of the incidents of the Reconstruction are omitted entirely, and this casued some complaining here in the South where the older people rerember the Reconstruction as vividly as French people recall the recent German occupation."
"THE FIRST HALF OF THE FILM FOLLOWS MY BOOK IN EXCELLENT DETAIL..." To a French historian and translator, Mitchell reports on her efforts to obtain him a copy of Robert Henry's The Story of the Confederacy, temporarily out of print: "Mr. Henry and I both had a smile for your friend who said, concerning the Confederacy, 'he who is not with me is against me.' We have many such people in the South, and their attitude is so well known that they are called 'unreconstructed; or 'unreconstructed Rebels.' This term goes back to the Reconstruction era in the South, when it was applied to such people as Robert Toombs and other former Confederates who never took the oath of allegiance... and who remained 'Rebels.'"
"You asked why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had not brought the film of 'Gone With the Wind' to France after that single showing which took place immediately after the end of the war. I can only hazard a guess. The motion picture of 'Gone With the Wind' appeared in the United States for the first time at the end of 1939, and many printings of it were made. It was a very long film (four hours) and an expensive film to manufacture, as it was in technicolor. During the war most of the raw film produced...went first to our Government, so there was a shortage of Technicolor film during the war and afterward....The situation is much better now and only recently 'Gone With the Wind' has returned to Atlanta for the first time since early in the war. It has been playing to crowded theatres, I understand it will be released in European theatres in the autumn...The first half of the film follows my book in excellent detail. The last half was shortened and incidents omitted or changed....Many of the incidents of the Reconstruction are omitted entirely, and this casued some complaining here in the South where the older people rerember the Reconstruction as vividly as French people recall the recent German occupation."