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  Review by Emily Housel ★★★

  what if we kissed... in front of edison’s camera 🙈
  hahaha jk... unless..?

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 2

  I love the build up, the hesitation, the teasing, and the payoff. It's the essence of what a cinematic kiss should be. If only it were as great as that sounds.

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  Review by A ★★★★ 2

  Someone on YouTube pointed out that the woman kind of looks like Quentin Tarantino and I can't unsee it

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  Review by Lydia Roberts ★★★★

  Maybe I'm a romantic or maybe I'm just easily impressed

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  Review by Joe ★★ 5

  boring

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  Review by Josh Keown | Night Terror Novels 🧛🏻‍♂️ ★★★½

  “They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time."

  The Kiss

  Directed by: William Heise, 1896.

  Produced by: The Edison Manufacturing Company.

  So recently as part of my course we’ve been watching a good many short films from the dawn of cinema, pre-1900. Most of these came from The Edison Company, then later the Lumière brothers. The Kiss was one of Thomas Edison’s first productions, directed by William Heise. It was also one of the first films to be shown commercially to the public, beaten only by Edison’s rivals from overseas, Auguste and Louis Lumière.

  The ‘plot’ concerns two people kissing, and that’s it. It’s…

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  Review by Jay 1

  the first ever porn video

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  Review by L

  *clutches pearls* *sweats under corset* *gasps in Victorian lady fashion*

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  Review by Ian Fastert

  on my new, patented loneliness scale™, this one gets a 4.5/5

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  Review by Peaceful Anarchy ★★ 1

  I think this guy cares more about his mustache than the woman.

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  Review by Mitch Myers

  Woah guys, this is pretty steamy

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  Review by JKM ★★★ 3

  It started out with The Kiss
  How did it end up like this?
  It was only The Kiss
  It was only The Kiss

  Watching a lot of these early films right now, so sorry if I'm clogging up your activity feed. Fascinating to see where we started and trace it to how we got to where we are today, how some tendencies continue decades later, and how many different ways cinema could've gone. This one is particularly interesting to watch, as it's the first kiss put to screen and what's usually such an intimate activity is rendered a spectacle in an unprecedented fashion. The couple here looks a wee bit uncomfortable, and their gestures feel so performative, the idea of…