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  Kiss: french kiss, kiss the girl
A more ominous use of the kiss is as a symbol of condemnation as may be observed when a crime lord kisses an underling, in effect imposing a death sentence upon that person, the ultimate "goodbye kiss" or the "kiss of death".{cn} Indeed, in the Bible, Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss.
Because sharing a kiss is a private, emotive experience for many people, actors often report kissing to be one of the most difficult aspects of their profession, in that it requires them to convey the feeling of passion and love when none is present.
On Kissing from the Kama Sutra, at kamasutra-sex.org.
winelib.com /wiki/Kiss   (2554 words)

  
  19th century in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lumière brothers created several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.
January, 1896 - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
January, 1896 - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/19th_century_in_film   (1112 words)

  
 Some men get the world. I want ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Their kiss is languorous and tender but they radiate energy and expectation, and the moment seems like just the prelude to something less restrained.
Kissing is actually older than humanity but we have eagerly adopted it, reinvented it, refined it and, over the past five million years, made it a distinctly human expression.
When we kiss, glands around the lips are stimulated to produce substances called semiochemicals, which are passed between kissers, heightening arousal and kissing intensity, which releases more semiochemicals, and so on, in an ever-increasing kiss-bliss spiral.
www.math.cornell.edu /~saliola/pages/fun/kiss.html   (1437 words)

  
 1896 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.
The first kiss ever on film was in 1896 involving the great Canadian star May Irwin and John C. Rice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1896_in_film   (202 words)

  
 SEA: the Finnish Film Archive: Cinema in Finland
The Film Foundation does not produce films itself, but it decides on financing and regulates loans out of funds comprising firstly State grants to the arts, and secondly fees for unrecorded cassettes and television rights and a share of box office receipts.
Suominen's film captured something in the air that had been lost to Finnish directors for a long time: it dealt with the problems of the age in a way that reached a wide audience, and presented a picture young people could identify with.
The most obvious common denominator of Finnish films of the end of the nineties and the beginning of the new millennium is the return to genres, national tradition and the search of a national identity.
www.sea.fi /english/cinema.html   (1980 words)

  
 Sun.Star Davao - What's in a kiss?
Perhaps one of the earliest depictions of a kiss between a man and a woman is on an Iberian stone relief dating from the 4th to the 2nd century B.C. The piece, featuring the kissers in profile from the shoulders up, was found in Osuna, Spain.
A deadly kiss, that's what it is. A young lady (sorry folks, she was unnamed) in medieval Italy took advantage of her in-law's tradition of kissing the lips of a marble bust in order to uncover an alleged household treasure.
The first kiss ever to be recorded in films occurred in Thomas Edison's film The Kiss between actor John C. Rice and actress May Irwin in April, 1896.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2003/03/03/feat/what.s.in.a.kiss..html   (1089 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Film, Feature
The film was directed by Ambuj Prasanna Gupta, a prominent drama worker and an instructor in physical education of jagannath college.
Film awards A good number films have been awarded prizes at home and abroad for creativity, aesthetic form and content, and for screenplays that reflect the realities of life and society and for their humane values.
The film was shown in Homer Theatre and Film Institute of London, Flaherty Foundation of USA, and in the Seminar of South California University in 1959.
banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/F_0076.htm   (2837 words)

  
 Kiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The film was not pornographic, of course, but heralded a new era in the erotic industry which has now, in very recent years, reached another stage with the video tape, cable and satellite television productions of pornography.
Kiss Of The Spider Woman opened in a Manhattan cinema on July 26, 1985, the same week that a dying Rock Hudson flew to Paris on Concorde to try the experimental AIDS treatment, HPA-23.
The film's main character Molina (William Hurt) was the last in a grand line of theatrical, flawed gay adults who didn’t shy away from their dark sides, their carnality and their sadnesses, and who had more bravery and spirit in each perfectly polished toenail than a thousand modern gay guys put together.
jahsonic.com /Kiss.html   (614 words)

  
 The Kiss (1896 movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 (The state of actually existing objectively) actuality which was one of the first movies ever shown commercially to the public.
The scene is a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice, in the final scene of the stage musical (additional info and facts about The Widow Jones) The Widow Jones.
The Kiss may have been the first movie ever publicly shown in Canada; it was projected onto a makeshift screen in West End Park, Ottawa, on July 21, 1896.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_kiss_(1896_movie).htm   (209 words)

  
 Sexual or Erotic Films
Films of romance with heart-throb sexy lead characters may have sexual elements, but these are often secondary to the main plot goal - the search and attainment of love.
This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship.
Suggestive nudity or perversion, lustful kissing, miscegenation, criminal murder, drugs, brutal violence, rape or attempted rape, cruelty to animals and children, racial slurs or anti-government diatribes, a man and woman in bed together, deliberate seduction of girls, profane swearing, and capital punishment (hangings or electrocutions) were specifically targeted - and to be avoided.
www.filmsite.org /sexualfilms.html   (1618 words)

  
 Orbital Reviews: The Kiss (1896)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lasting just more than 20 seconds, The Kiss is one of the earliest films from the Edison Manufacturing Company, which dominated the early years of cinema.
Film scholars and historians credit The Kiss as showing the first screen kiss, but probably everyone in the world would agree that screen kisses have improved drastically since the 21-second clip.
It lacks any cinematic value, but is one of many early demonstrations of film that tested the medium's ability to show motion, even just for a matter of seconds.
orbitalreviews.com /movies/TheKiss.html   (173 words)

  
 Kissing: The top 12 kisses of all time
John C Rice kissed May Irwin in 1896, and became the first couple to be recorded kissing in the film called The Kiss.
Still in cinematrography, the longest kiss in films history was between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in the 1941 film, You're in the Army Now.
One particular type of labyrinth fish is known as the "kissing gurami" In this species the enthusiasm for the kiss is such that one such act may last as much as twenty-five minutes.
www.abcdating.com /kisses.htm   (357 words)

  
 1896   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This makes his wooden chair of 1896 with a naked woman bound to its back all the more disturbing, and a far cry from the Scot Charles Rennie Mackintosh's oak chair of 1904 with its pattern of ribs set at strict right angles.
Even the way it is filmed, very close and personal, that it makes you feel like it is the first time you are witnessing a kiss.
Film scholars and historians credit The Kiss as showing the first screen kiss, but probably everyone in the world would agree that screen kisses have improved drastically since the 21-second clip.
www.jahsonic.com /1896.html   (836 words)

  
 The Silent Western
These films were simple in content, focusing on everyday events like a baby crying, trolley cars moving, or a tree branch swaying in the wind: they simply capitalized on the sense of novelty the public felt when they saw pictures which could move.
The film shorts were randomly arranged and offered a variety of spectacles to the viewer; these early films had everything to do with novelty and special effect, and very little to do with narrative.
The power of film was not lost on the scores of journalists, intellectuals, social workers, clergymen, and filmmakers who hailed the medium as a new "universal language." Film fused with millenialist thought as some made the claim that film would restore man to a position he had not known since before the Tower of Babel.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Westfilm/movie.htm   (1999 words)

  
 Kissing Facts
African tribes pay homage to their Chief by kissing the ground where he has walked.
First movie kiss - John C Rice kissed May Irwin in the film called "The Kiss" (1896).
In some places kissing is a crime - it's illegal in Indiana for a mustached man to "habitually kiss human beings", in Hartford, Connecticut it's illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sunday, and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's a crime to kiss a stranger.
hicards.com /valentine/vkiss.html   (299 words)

  
 National Film Registry, 1999
The list is designed to reflect the full breadth and diversity of America's film heritage, thus increasing public awareness of the richness of American cinema and the need for its preservation.
Fifty percent of the films produced before 1950 and at least 90 percent made before 1920 have disappeared forever.
And, ominously, more films are lost each year -- through the ravages of nitrate deterioration, color-fading and the recently discovered 'vinegar syndrome,' which threatens the acetate-based (safety) film stock on which the vast majority of motion pictures, past and present, have been preserved," said Dr. Billington.
www.loc.gov /film/nfr99.html   (510 words)

  
 Arthurian Film
Donner's film, which was shelved by the studio for several years before being dumped for television release, is one of the silliest films ever made about the Arthurian legend.
The charges leveled against the film are generally that the lead roles were miscast, that the direction was ponderous, and that, at nearly three hours, the film was too long.
Clearly, Zucker intends his film to be an Arthuriad for the 1990s, but the film fails to capture the spirit of the original legend or to make a case for its contemporary translation of the oft-told story of the Arthur-Lancelot-Guinevere love triangle.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm   (11005 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: The Kiss
There is a longer Edison film of a kiss, filmed in 1900, that has at times been confused with this one.
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
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.
www.archive.org /details/Irwin-RiceKiss   (277 words)

  
 Kissing trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The longest kiss in film history was between Jane Wyman and Regis Tommey in the 1941 film, “You’re in the Army Now.” The kiss lasted 3 minutes and 5 seconds, or 1/25 of the total running time.
50 percent of all people kiss have their first kiss before they are 14.
Kissing releases the same neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) as intense exercise, like parachuting or distance running.
www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2004/022004/02132004/kissingtrivia/printer_friendly   (174 words)

  
 Darcy's Korean Film Page - Documentaries
In this film we see the women gaining self-confidence, eventually moving behind the camera themselves to utilize the medium of film as a means of both protest and healing.
Kim is a film scholar and has written many books and articles on South Korean cinema (go check out her citations in our bibliography elsewhere on this site), and this documentary is her attempt to "translate" her books into film.
I feel both of these films are much more complicated than her brief statement alludes, particularly when looking at them from an understanding of film portrayals of disability.
www.koreanfilm.org /docs.html   (4645 words)

  
 F I L M S C R O L L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As the number of films developed in color began to increase, film makers began to use colors as symbols to express their work on a deeper, philosophical level.
In this film, color acts as the metaphor for all the never dying vibrant cultural influences that were infused into the American culture during the 1960’s.
Kiss”) was the first film ever made in cinematic history to have an on screen kissing scene.
www.filmscroll.com   (2400 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - People
Proceeding from the very first film kiss of all, this group of films highlight a "typical" film for each decade of the 20th century.
Nominated for the European Film Award 2000, Georgian director Nana Djordjadze's Summer or 27 Missing Kisses uses fairytale-like pictures and that incomparable Eastern European charm to tell the tragicomic story of the 14-year-old Sybille whose arrival in an unidentified small town throws all its inhabitants into a frenzy of summer love.
In her film Two Women [Iran 1999], Tahmineh Milani relates the opportunities and limitations that self-determined love and partnership poses for women in Iran today.
www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=festivalart&text_id=17006   (1338 words)

  
 NCAC - National Coalition Against Censorship
Ohio enforced an obscenity law to ban the film, but in 1968 the Supreme Court reversed the obscenity conviction of the Ohio theater that exhibited the film.
Although the film explored highly nuanced themes and characters, the censors were blinded by the titillating title and suggestion of sex.
This film's graphic portrayal of seemingly random acts of violence caused Blockbuster, K-Mart and Wal-Mart to refuse to stock the Director's Cut of the film.
ncac.org /issues/Film_Censorship.cfm   (2473 words)

  
 Where to Lock Lips
In the annals of public kissing, the District is often associated with two kinds of puckers: those that fall on babies, and those that fall (metaphorically speaking, of course) on backsides.
With the planes zooming by as low as 100 feet overhead, it can be hard to distinguish an earth-shaking kiss from the thunder of takeoff and landing.
Open to the public daily (weather permitting), the terrace provides a walk-around view of the city, with vistas of the National Cathedral, Georgetown University, the Potomac River and the Washington Monument, as well as fleeting glimpses of Arlington Cemetery, the Capitol, the back of the Lincoln Memorial and the dome of the Jefferson Memorial.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101649.html   (1084 words)

  
 TAKE ONE: History of Ontario's film industry, 1896 to 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
George Armstrong, the first chairman of the Board, wrote to the provincial treasurer (T.W. McGarry, who was responsible for its management): "The present standard of censorship is that of all Censor Boards in the Dominion, and in the United States.
Throughout this period there was a continuous demand for films with a pro-British Empire point of view.
At the time, 35mm was being made on flammable nitrate stock; so, the OMPB decided to stay with the safer 28mm for screenings in schools and town halls.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_28_9/ai_30574580   (1393 words)

  
 The Kiss (1896)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Trivia: A fifteen-second kiss by May Irwin and John C. Rice in the movie brought the first demand for film censorship.
The participants in "The Kiss" are neither young nor attractive, and their feelings towards each other seem more affectionate than sensual.
That it caused such comment in its time no doubt speaks in part to what that generation was concerned with, but even at that, surely most persons had seen this kind of behavior before.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0139738   (454 words)

  
 Tim Wick - National Film Registry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
These films are then stored in the Library of Congress to ensure a copy it preserved for all time.
Among the films you have probably heard of ("The Ten Commandments", "Woman of the Year", "Roman Holiday") and some you probably haven't ("The Kiss", "Civilization", "In the land of the Head-hunters") are three films of interest to any science fiction fan.
He admits that his knowledge of films made prior to about 1975 is limited, though he is working on improving that deficiency.
www.misfit.org /views/twick19991117.htm   (533 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Bleeding Realism Dry (1)
Even horror films about intergalactic oysters must be credibly performed and fertilized with characterological psychology lest they risk derision, and science fiction will mouth its technobabble to impress upon us that it is a theoretical "science" explicable in objective, if generic, language.
Film, a composite medium suffering still from an inferiority complex, needed to inherit the historically exalted place of painted, static art by mimicking it under the pretext of realism.
— has been falsely equated with artfulness, as if the stony symmetry of the film's images were suitable for framing in that pinnacle of bourgeois values, the museum, where the sterile and sublime become indistinguishable, twinned values.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /37/bleeding1.htm   (3053 words)

  
 The Kiss - Video(VHS)
The title may be the same, but "The Kiss" that's on the NFR is Edison's 1896 kinetoscope film, not this Garbo silent.
This 1929 film, directed by Jacques Feyder, is yet another mediocre story for Garbo in which she plays a pure woman of passion who is wronged.
"The Kiss" was the first major role for Lew Ayres, who went on to fame as Dr. Kildare in a series of movies.
www.wensstyle.com /product/6302048990.html   (259 words)

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