- Who
- May Irwin, John C. Rice
- What
- first first
- Where
- United States ()
- When
The first screen kiss took place between May Irwin (Canada) and John C. Rice (USA) for a short film entitled “The Kiss”, directed and photographed by William Heise in April 1896 for Edison Studios at their Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
The 20-second-long film was a re-enactment of a kiss shared by Irwin and Rice during the stage musical The Widow Jones. “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time”, reads the description in the Edison film catalogue.
