The Kiss

The Kiss is a also a famous sculpture by Constantin Brancusi.

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 barely twenty seconds long. The scene is a reenactment of the final scene of the stage musical The Widow Jones.

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.