1. Notes: 50 / 2 years ago  from nerd-gasms (originally from mabelmoments)
   

   nerdgasms:

   postmodernista:mabelmoments:

   First kiss on film.

   The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 actuality, and was one of the first movies ever shown commercially to the public. The film is around 47 seconds long, and depicts a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice from the final scene of the stage musical, The Widow Jones. The film caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown. One contemporary critic wrote: “The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other’s lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.”

   The Edison catalogue advertised it thus: “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.” (via wiki)

    

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      I guess they started the revolution of touching on screen.

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      First kiss on film....The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and...

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