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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.