The Kiss (1896 movie) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 actuality which was one of the first movies ever shown commercially to the public. It is barely twenty seconds long. The scene is a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice, in the final scene of the stage musical The Widow Jones. The Kiss may have been the first movie ever publicly shown in Canada; it was projected onto a makeshift screen in West End Park, Ottawa, on July 21, 1896. It caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials.It was directed by William Heise for Thomas Edison. In 1999 the short was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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