Sur un Air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (1927)
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Charleston Parade (1927)
Sur un air de Charleston (original title)
17min | Short, Sci-Fi | 19 March 1927 (France)
Shot in three days a surrealist Jean Renoir, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
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