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The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 actuality which was one of the first movies ever shown commercially to the public. It is around 47 seconds long. The scene is a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice, in the final scene of the stage musical The Widow Jones. The Kiss was long thought to be the first movie ever publicly shown in Canada; but though it was projected in West End Park, Ottawa, on July 21 1896 the competing Lumière Brothers Cinematograph had already exhibited different films in Montreal on June 27 1896 (Gaudreault & Lacasse 1996). The Kiss caused a scandalized uproar and occasioned disapproving newspaper editorials in many places where it was shown.

It was directed by William Heise for Thomas Edison. In 1999 the short was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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