On Your Toes (Part 1)

About

Content warning: features characters that are anti-Black racist stereotypes, including a Jim Crow era "mammy." For more context on the harm of this caricature type, see this article from the Jim Crow Museum: https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/mammies/homepage.htm (Accessed November 9, 2023). The film's intertitles contain a homophobic slur directed at one child by a group of bullies.

An early sports drama called "On Your Toes." Includes close-ups of nostril-flaring and ear wiggling, boys scrapping, learning to box. Likely part one of a six-reel feature, but no titles are included on this reel. Possibly a digest print of a full-length Hollywood production from early rental library. African American actors Gertrude Howard and George West are featured in this reel.

Coverage in Universal Weekly: https://archive.org/details/universalweekly100movi_1/page/n36/mode/1up ""On Your Toes" Is Vivid Fight Film." Universal Weekly, Vol. 26, No. 25, pg. 35. 28 Jan. 1928. Accessed on 11/2/23.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Rights statement

(c) Universal Pictures Corp.; 21Nov27: LP24682. No renewal shown in Catalog of Copyright Entries 1912-39.

Credit

Jewel, Fred Newmeyer

Language

English

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