martes, 14 de febrero de 2012

The first kiss

Thomas Edison is the responsible of the first kiss in cinema. It was filmed in his studio in New Jersey in 1896.  He really had an eye of what audiences wanted.  The film is around 47 seconds long and shows a kiss between the canadian actress May Irwin and John Rice. The film caused 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."




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