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First screen kiss

First screen kiss
Who
May Irwin, John C. Rice
What
First
Where
United States
When
April 1896

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.