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Charleston Parade
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Title: Charleston Parade (1927)
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Catherine Hessling | ... |
Parisian Savage
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Johnny Hudgins | ... |
African Explorer
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Pierre Braunberger | ... |
Angel
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André Cerf | ... |
Angel
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Pierre Lestringuez | ... |
Angel
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Country:
FranceRelease Date:
19 March 1927 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Charleston See more »Company Credits
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SilentColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Shot in three days on a practically zero budget, using film stock left over from Nana, Jean Renoir made this strange curio just for fun. He never edited it. It was never released. He later gave the footage to the Cinémathèque Française, who pieced the film together.
The story: it's the year 2028. An explorer from Central Africa (Johnny Huggins, a jazz dancer of the 1920s, who appears here in minstrel makeup; he actually was black) arrives in a post-apocalyptic Paris in a flying sphere. He encounters a scantily-clad wild girl and her monkey friend. The girl dances the Charleston to try to seduce him. He thinks she's threatening him and he runs away. She chases after him, dancing ever more aggressively and seductively. The explorer begins to watch, hesitantly, but curiously. The girl draws a telephone on the wall, which turns into a real telephone, and she calls some kind of disembodied human head with wings. Some other winged disembodied heads appear. The girl hands the phone to the explorer, and one of the heads speaks to him--apparently letting him know that the girl's OK. Then the explorer and the girl dance the Charleston together. The girl leaves with the explorer in his flying sphere, her tearful monkey friend waving goodbye.