Charleston Parade (1927)

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17m
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March 19, 1927
Release Date

Charleston Parade (1927)

6
/ 10
1 User Ratings
17m
Running Time

March 19, 1927
Release Date

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Plot.

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

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Release Date
March 19, 1927

Original Name
Sur un air de Charleston

Status
Released

Running Time
17m

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dance
silent film
explorer
blackface
charleston

Wiki.

Charleston Parade (Sur un air de Charleston) is a short 1927 futuristic sensual dance fantasy film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Renoir's wife Catherine Hessling and the African American mime artist Johnny Hudgins. Hudgins performs in blackface.

Originally titled Sur un air de Charleston, the film was released as Charleston Parade in English-speaking countries. Renoir would later remark that he directed this avant-garde film because he had "just discovered American jazz." He used some of the leftover footage from his previous film Nana. The film was shot in a three days in the autumn of 1926, but remained unfinished and is rarely shown. The film reverses racial stereotypes and is set in 2028. Censorship boards in some areas of the US and Europe protested against Catherine Hessling's near-nude dance performance. According to Renoir, the film was favourably reviewed by the press, "but this did nothing to open the doors of the popular cinemas."

A restored version of the film was shown at the Grand Lyon Film Festival in 2018.

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