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.
[4][5] Censorship boards in some areas of the US and Europe protested against Catherine Hessling's near-nude dance performance.
[1] According to Renoir, the film was favourably reviewed by the press, "but this did nothing to open the doors of the popular cinemas.
Arriving over what remains of Paris, he sets his craft down on the roof of a Morris advertising column, which serves as shelter for a beautiful white aboriginal wild woman, whose only companion is a monkey.
When the wild woman discovers that the foreign explorer has arrived, she ties him to the column and performs a sensual ritual dance for him.