1899 early film kiss - 'The Kiss in the Tunnel' | BFI National Archive
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The earliest film kiss held by the BFI National Archive is this stolen smooch aboard a steam train, intended as a comic filler sequence to play as part of the ‘phantom ride’ films popular in Victorian cinema. G. A. Smith's 1899 film shows a train going into a dark tunnel, revealing a couple in a railway carriage taking the opportunity to steal a kiss. As the train apparently emerges into the light the couple move apart in a guilty fashion, and although scarcely enough to make your Victorian grandmother blush, it gives the scene its slight frisson of naughtiness. But Smith's Kiss in the Tunnel is also one of the world's most important early films because it is one of the first to edit together several related shots. Exhibitors were recommended that it be shown, to add humour, between a phantom ride of a train going into, then coming out of, a tunnel.
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This was the 1899 equivalent of 50 shades of grey
What a sweet scene! Actually made me go awe!
Well, the first film with a kiss in it is simply called "The Kiss" from 1896, and Thomas Edison was behind it.
@@TheUnforgiven59 Yeah, but this is the more refined "cover" version, Kinda like where Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light" is cool, But "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" improved the thing.
How can it be so clear for 1899? Jesus H. that's better resolution than standard DVD
itsinmynamechap i know, but still
+willzer808 There's an excellent double dvd available from the Bfi called "Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers". This film is included along with many others from 1895-1910.
Trax-3 I'll have to look into it. I would never have guessed that an industry standard 35mm would have already existed in 1899. But I'm speaking out of ignorance with this, so I'll just stop and check
fantastic film seems filmed yeasterday
For some reason, footage from this era is usually shown digitaly at a 480p resolution which significantly reduces the detail. Even a 9.5mm print can be effectively scanned in 1080p
Only a 1890s kid would understand.
😀i remember perfectly in some of my weird dreams in 1890 unfortunately i was in russia living close to a lake with a dog with some ppl was cool, until i know i was killed for many rebels when i was around 20 or 23😐 i reckon i had a gf😂
weird dreams 😂😂😂🤣
anyway but now im a woman 24 years old in Australia 😜😜 and still single 😔😭😭
i reckon those rebels were against of the romanov family 😐😐😐😐 and i was one of the victims in those riots in russia😐
@@pearlpearlau poor you
@@ByzantineCapitalManagement What If You Became A Time Traveler
XDd
Of course it is clear. All the information is there in a 35 mm print (16 mm came much later). The image is uncompressed, a resolution equivalent of probably 6K. 35 was used from the beginning, it became standard around 1905. Bad resolution on UA-cam is usually because of the up-loader. A bad VHS-print in 480p is still a bad VHS print. You can't improve the image by using a higher resolution, the information is gone forever. You can rely on BFI to use the best methods.
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Not to discredit BFI, but you said it yourself...the quality of the uncompressed source on the bigger format is the key here, not the processing. Sometimes I wonder if the digitalisation of things (which look great now) will look artificial in the future and we wished we hadn't compressed things so much.
Even worse than VHS source is bad VHS transfert, and this is pretty common unfortunatly.
The initial shot going into the tunnel looks like a very hot summer’s day.
What a lovely film!
Shillamill tunnel between Tavistock and Bere Alston, out of use since 1968 but maybe used again in the future. Infamous for some rather more explicit explorations than those shown in the film involving the more mature pupils returning home from Tavistock school
omg old movies were sooo nice
Is this movie of 1899? A very long time ago 121 years ago it was!
125 now mate!
This is some hardcore shit. I cant believe UA-cam hasn't removed this.
A kiss in the tunnel is worth two in the bush.
Trelawny looked so nice
This is such a beautiful video. Right at the beginning of the film industry, set in the Victorian Era and showcasing the most powerful and beautiful gift we have - Love. No war, hate or violence like today's films. Just a beautiful example of the love between a man and a woman. That's what we all need - Love. It's the only thing that will move us forward as a species and civilization and the only thing that will save us.
Nah man that’s just guy and chick kissing
With just love the human race wouldn’t of progressed as far as we have ( although that is arguably a good thing )
Tunnel of love!
where is arthur morgan?
Blacklungs is dead
@@Literallyryangosling777 and rat dead too
Reminds me of the ending of "North by Northwest"
W la Belle Epoque, la classe non è acqua.........!! Beautiful Times !
This is the sweetest film ever made. If you disagree, tell me how it could possibly be improved?
Omg... Tobacco kiss 😊
That indoor smoking would be an scandal now 😂
22:14 When my great-grandfather was made......
This is shot from the platform of my local train station - Lewes.
I wonder where that couple that was kissing is living at now. That must’ve been a scandal back then. I want to ask them if that took a lot of courage to film that scene.
She was shy ☺️
i went into this video to see exactly how the godons looked before it is very nice to see 1899
If this was real how is it that it's so clear and crisp with sound and yet silent films which came much later can hardly be made out at all very fuzzy blurry etc. Can't wait for someone to answer that question. Hmm??
it’s been remastered and the sound is added
He was such a kisser.
RIP
This is how one gets pregnant in the late 1800’s.
Scandalous! 😧
Thank.
This is the same year that AC Milan was founded ❤️🖤
Arthur morgan minuto 0:54
120 years later and you can now go to prison for that
Clipgatherer more like “seXuaL harAssMenT”
Pretty sure they were already a couple. And the whole point of the clip was that they had to wait for the tunnel to take the opportunity to kiss, in those days it was considered improper even for couples to kiss in public.
Dam right, it's disgraceful nowadays what you can and can not do. why can't I kiss a woman in a tunnel, why can I only do it outside the tunnel.
ya i kissed my wife in a train and now im in jail :/ lmao some ppl need to go back to 4th grade and relearn "context clues"
also pretty sure sexual assault has always been illegal but have fun ig
Well, you would definitely get a fine for smoking.
I wonder if the white spots were there from the beginning, or if they were the result of poor storage conditions, or just "natural" aging of the film.
Red dead 2
brilliant
Mmmmm a cigar kiss... blecch
I thought the same thing --all I could think was yuck. I can't even stand my own mouth after a cigar.
There was no audio back then. Titanic videos from 1912 are no where near this quality and have no sound. What they suddenly decide to stop producing videos with sound?? Fake
the sound is probably a later addition, and the video quality looks good because - well - this is a good copy and those you watched simply were not
Obviously this audio was added recently. There was no audio on the orignal film, but since the begining of cinema silent films were not silent. When the projections were made there were musicians very often. Most of the time a single pianist or organist, or full orchestras in bigger venues. Before title card was invented there was someone who read some text out loud to the audience. In the later years machines were used for sound effects, and also pre recorded effects on disc were used. So those silents movies were never made to be played without music, hence this modern interpretation suits well the art of that time. Maybe the locomotive noise is a bit too much, but the music is just fine.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
It's clear than latest ufo videos...
De quien es la música??? Parece Gismonti...
Who ever made this film straight up mocking Wes Anderson.. shame on you people.
can somebody tell me the name of the music piece please?
Love Forever!
Není to mistr světa v šachu Emanuel Lasker ?
Wait a minute
Where is Arthur Morgan ?
Watching this in theater with Mary
Date:November 22, 1935
What is this song
Some obscure Ragtime piece.
does anyone know the title to the soundtrack?
Que calor, señores, que calor.
Casi tan bueno como Pornhub.
amazing! however, he is so small in comparison to her, it makes it even more hilarious :))). She is as tall (sitting down), as him standing up
I saw a totally different version today at the Film Museum in Frankfurt. Same title, same year, same director, same story, different actors, editing and set. Does anyone have an explanation for this?!
BriceCatherin - Drugs.
@@AtheistOrphan Excellent hypothesis, but actually it turns out the guy made a more explicit remake of his own film later on the same year.@t
@@BriceCatherin Drugs and a lot of absinthe. Absinthe was really popular with artists and "Bohemians" during this time (Europe mostly).
A lot of old films were reshot because the film tape would worn out. I guess they didn't take good care of it
@@JoM934 It was also flamable.
such a scandal 🤣😅
in india there still not allowedto kiss in their movies?
They still poop in the streets too.
In today's Indian films, they show almost everything.
First porn film ever.
Scandalous, really!
As long as it doesn't frighten the horses...
Era Javukh You got that right Era 😉
"After The Ball" (1897) shows a lady's backside.
No that was in 1915
1:11
Ay dios mío que calidad más horrible me da miedo la calidad de los años 1899
Aditya 😂👉
Perhaps, an allusion to sex.
No, wtf did I watch? Is this romance?
*are you sure this is romance?*
_BYE SISTER_
I could tell she wanted him
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