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Title in Edison films catalog: Kiss
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1896.
SUMMARY
From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: An osculatory performance by May Irwin and John Rice. The most popular subject ever shown.
From Edison films catalog: By May Irwin and John Rice. They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time. 50 feet. $7.50.
NOTES
Copyright: no reg.
May Irwin (Beatrice Byke), John C. Rice (Billy Bilke).
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:18 at 30 fps.
Scene from the New York stage comedy, The widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896.
MAVIS 47798.
Filmed April 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 197-99; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 11 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 70 [MI].
Received: 5-13-1994; viewing print; preservation; Hendricks (Gordon) Collection.
SUBJECTS
Kissing--Drama.
Courtship--Drama.
Widows--Sexual behavior--Drama.
Romance
Comedy
RELATED NAMES
Irwin, May, 1862-1938, cast.
Rice, John C., cast.
Heise, William, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
RELATED TITLES
World (New York, N.Y. : 1860-1931).
MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., ca. 34 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
CALL NUMBER
FEC 8087 (viewing print)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
edmp 4038 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4038
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