"Glaciers have descended on Europe and thrown it into disorder. A black scholar, who has come to explore the continent, discovers a savage white woman, who introduces him to the barbaric dances of the day, notably the Charleston....Because its humor was strictly burlesque, Charleston had no success at all, but what remains of (the) original is zany, spontaneous, and very amusing....Catherine Hessling's eroticism, evident in Nana, is here systematically exploited. It is not surprising that this orgy of thighs, displayed by a dancer wearing nothing but panties and a half-opened corset, caused some scandal. Only the silent version survives, but apparently the film was once accompanied by some fine music written for it by Doucet."-François Truffaut Johnny Huggins, a star of La Revue Nègre, plays the African "explorer" in black-face, as was the custom of the time. Raymond Durgnat notes, "It's a neatly paradoxical little squib on the theme of the Noble Savage, which was just about to take Hollywood also to primitive lands (Tabu, (etc.)). The film's frolickings with notions of Western civilization, the missionary spirit and Uncle Tomism hardly need spelling out."