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Le pompier des Folies Bergres

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in her banana skirt, from the Folies Bergre production "Un Vent de Folie", elements of which were repeated in 'Le pompier des Folies Bergres'

'Le pompier des Folies Bergres' ('The fireman of the Folies Bergres'), 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 Bergre performance entitled "Un Vent desfolies at the Folies-Bergere." The fireman, inspired by seeing the Folies Bergre, 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 Bibliothque nationale de France has a video copy of the film.

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