The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere (1928)

8m
Running Time

March 1, 1928
Release Date

The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere (1928)

8m
Running Time

March 1, 1928
Release Date

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Plot.

After a lengthy period of watching the dancers at the Folies Bergères, a fireman stops in for a drink. As he becomes intoxicated, his thoughts return to the dancers, and he begins to see images of nude dancers all around him. Whether he goes into the subway, rides on a streetcar, or returns to the fire station, he continues to see the same imaginary sights.

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Release Date
March 1, 1928

Original Name
Le pompier des Folies Bergères

Status
Released

Running Time
8m

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Wiki.

Le pompier des Folies Bergères (The fireman of the Folies Bergères), also known as Un pompier qui prend feu (A fireman catches fire) and Les Hallucinations d'un pompier (The hallucinations of a fireman) is a 1928 French silent film featuring Josephine Baker. The director is unknown. The film is about seven-and-a-half minutes long.The film was produced in 1927 and released in 1928. The storyline involves the erotic fantasies of a fireman, and includes elements from Baker's Folies Bergère performance entitled "Un Vent desfolies at the Folies-Bergere." The fireman, inspired by seeing the Folies Bergère, imagines that people that he encounters are naked women.Baker appears in two scenes as subway driver who transforms into a "scantily dressed ... unnamed, seductive showgirl" in part of the fireman's fantasies, and dances the Charleston in one scene. Terri Francis, a cinema and media studies academic, notes that there are several contrasts in the film between a number of white women who appear nude, in immobile posed groups, and Baker, who is dressed, dances, and appears individually.Sociologist Bennetta Jules-Rosette wrote in 2007 that "Although this film would be considered softcore pornography today, it is difficult to determine the extent of its distribution and the responses of its audience when it was released in 1928." The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a video copy of the film.

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