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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.
“I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance.”
– Johnny Hudgins