“This girl was in the baggage car when we stole the train, so I thought it best to hold her.”The General (Clyde Bruckman + Buster Keaton, 1926)
Mar
8
National Oregon Day
Johnnie Gray (Keaton) stands on the roof of The General's locomotive while Oregon passes along. DPs: Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings.
For authenticity reasons, The General was – for the most part – filmed on location in Oregon. Set during the #AmericanCivilWar, it's a comedic retelling of a popular war memoir about the #GreatLocomotiveChase.
– Captain Anderson
Sadly it was a box office #flop, resulting in Keaton losing his independence and his movie entering the #PublicDomain as early as 1954. Luckily for us that means we too can enjoy Oregon beautiful 1920s vistas.
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“I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance.”
Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927)
Feb
14
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Parisian savage Catherine Hessling and African explorer Johnny Hudgins exploring each other's alien ways. DP: Jean Bachelet.
Legendary African-American #vaudeville performer Johnny Hudgins – in historically correct Blackface – plays an African explorer who descends onto 2028 Paris to learn about the primitive ways of the white natives. Soon, he discovers the Charleston.
– Johnny Hudgins
A fantastic Afrofuturist short, made a decade before Sun Ra's trip to Saturn.