The very first kiss on film: Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Ric.
"The film caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials and calls for police action in many places where it was shown."
"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 the film this way: “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.” 
"gargantuan proportions" - I love this.
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