# On Your Toes (Part 1)

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.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1927
- By: Jewel, Fred Newmeyer
- Genres: Sports, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/On_Your_Toes_P1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/On_Your_Toes_P1?play=1)