Jean Pierre Melville's first film, the 1945 short 24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A CLOWN featuring the great Medrano clown, Béby. His whiteface parter here is Maïss, not his better known partner Umberto "Antonet" Guillaume, who passed away in 1935.
This print of the film is rather unfortunately "narrarated" in Russian over the original French soundtrack.
It's a funny little film, this. I love the bit where he's in bed, browsing his clown books, with his dog. I can definitely identify with that!
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