The copyright holders of Gone with the Wind attempted to suppress publication of The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, which retold the story from the perspective of the slaves.

Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone is either a parallel historical novel, or ( after litigation ) a parody.

The Wind Done Gone ( 2001 ) is the first novel written by Alice Randall.

The estate of Margaret Mitchell sued Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, on the grounds that The Wind Done Gone was too similar to Gone with the Wind, thus infringing its copyright.

The case attracted numerous comments from leading scholars, authors, and activists, regarding what Mitchell's attitudes would have been and how much The Wind Done Gone copies from its predecessor.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

* 1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

It failed to win any Oscars partly because of the number of other major pictures that were nominated that year, including The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from an auto-crash injury that refused to heal.

" Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.

Margaret Mitchell arranged Gone with the Wind chronologically, basing it on the life and experiences of the main character, Scarlett O ' Hara, as she grew from adolescence into adulthood.

Slavery in Gone with the Wind is a backdrop to a story that is essentially about other things.

Southern plantation fiction ( also known as Anti-Tom literature ) from the early 19th century culminating in Gone with the Wind is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy.

The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free.

Eighteen years prior to the publication of Gone with the Wind, an article titled, " The Old Black Mammy ," written in the Confederate Veteran in 1918, discussed the romanticized view of the mammy character that had been passed on in literature of the South:

Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".

The enduring interest of both Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone with the Wind has resulted in lingering stereotypes of 19th century African American slaves.

However, since its publication, Gone with the Wind has become a reference point for subsequent writers about the South, both black and white alike.

The battles mentioned or depicted in Gone with the Wind are:

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) and the Reconstruction Era ( 1865 – 1877 ) that followed the war.

Gone with the Wind expresses the true horrors of war.

One criticism leveled at Gone with the Wind is for its portrayal of African Americans in the 19th century South.

No doubt it is indeed unfortunate that Gone with the Wind perpetuates many myths about Reconstruction, particularly with respect to blacks.

In Gone with the Wind, Mitchell is blind to racial oppression and " the inseparability of race and gender " that defines the southern belle character of Scarlett.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.

An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Wind direction is calculated from these cyclical changes in cupwheel speed, while wind speed is as usual determined from the average cupwheel speed.

The balalaika is mentioned in both The Beatles ' song " Back in the U. S. S. R ." and the Scorpions ' song " Wind of Change ".

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

* Wind loading is another major design criterion in Hong Kong as it is situated in an area influenced by typhoons.

Wind power is of increasing importance in many countries

Wind erosion is a major geomorphological force, especially in arid and semi-arid regions.

Wind erosion is of two primary varieties: deflation, where the wind picks up and carries loose soil particles ; and abrasion, where surfaces are worn down as they are struck by airborne particles carried by wind.

Wind erosion is much more severe in arid areas, and during times of drought.

It is originally based on his earlier game Elfenroads ( published by White Wind ), but since Elfenroads took about four hours for a game, the play was simplified to reduce the time closer to an hour, making it appeal more as a family game.

Note that this is different from the original Elfengold published by White Wind.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

Wind that is too abrupt will destroy the crystals.

" However, Parsons is still featured as lead vocalist on the songs " You're Still on My Mind ", " Life in Prison ", and " Hickory Wind ".