1899 early film kiss - 'The Kiss in the Tunnel' | BFI National Archive

[@Ayden_B]

This was the 1899 equivalent of 50 shades of grey

[@homekissed2351]

What a sweet scene! Actually made me go awe!

[@TheUnforgiven59]

Well, the first film with a kiss in it is simply called "The Kiss" from 1896, and Thomas Edison was behind it.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@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.

[@ByzantineCapitalManagement]

Only a 1890s kid would understand.

[@pearlpearlau]

😀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 😔😭😭

[@pearlpearlau]

i reckon those rebels were against of the romanov family 😐😐😐😐 and i was one of the victims in those riots in russia😐

[@ByzantineCapitalManagement]

@@pearlpearlau poor you

[@aidanwise7163]

@@ByzantineCapitalManagement What If You Became A Time Traveler

[@xydor12]

XDd

[@willzer808]

How can it be so clear for 1899? Jesus H. that's better resolution than standard DVD

[@willzer808]

itsinmynamechap i know, but still

[@cjknotty]

+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.

[@willzer808]

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

[@sandrodream5418]

fantastic film seems filmed yeasterday

[@malfattio2894]

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

[@filharmoni167]

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 KZbin 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.

[@britishfilminstitute]

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[@davidsanderson5918]

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.

[@debranchelowtone]

Even worse than VHS source is bad VHS transfert, and this is pretty common unfortunatly.

[@RalphDratman]

What a lovely film!

[@dev4911]

A kiss in the tunnel is worth two in the bush.

[@ProfessorPesca]

The initial shot going into the tunnel looks like a very hot summer’s day.

[@sknn497]

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

[@fede22081]

omg old movies were sooo nice

[@timothyafanov3561]

Is this movie of 1899? A very long time ago 121 years ago it was!

[@jonathanjonathan7386]

125 now mate!

[@Elvisultimatefanchannel]

The Dirty Scoundrel 😂

[@gameroxgaming7275]

Trelawny looked so nice

[@Lion_Heart_Zimbabwe]

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.

[@menocchio4443]

Nah man that’s just guy and chick kissing

[@Namya86]

With just love the human race wouldn’t of progressed as far as we have ( although that is arguably a good thing )

[@Sentientmatter8]

Tunnel of love!

[@gnomechild3248]

This is some hardcore shit. I cant believe KZbin hasn't removed this.

[@hubaner]

where is arthur morgan?

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Blacklungs is dead

[@hijusthi6463]

@@Literallyryangosling777 and rat dead too

[@karlerasure]

Omg... Tobacco kiss 😊 That indoor smoking would be an scandal now 😂

[@brancho4438]

22:14 When my great-grandfather was made......

[@sillystephys7123]

This is how one gets pregnant in the late 1800’s.

[@ianinkster2261]

This is the sweetest film ever made. If you disagree, tell me how it could possibly be improved?

[@alejoparedes2388]

Reminds me of the ending of "North by Northwest"

[@danielependola1580]

W la Belle Epoque, la classe non è acqua.........!! Beautiful Times !

[@DenisJoldic618]

i went into this video to see exactly how the godons looked before it is very nice to see 1899

[@albaclerd]

She was shy ☺️

[@sarpsarp8987]

He was such a kisser.

[@AsherneZ]

This is the same year that AC Milan was founded ❤️🖤

[@SkeletorFan]

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.

[@dashcole7963]

This is shot from the platform of my local train station - Lewes.

[@guillermoperonaguerrero9080]

can somebody tell me the name of the music piece please?

[@jordanfats1997]

120 years later and you can now go to prison for that

[@jordanfats1997]

Clipgatherer more like “seXuaL harAssMenT”

[@shehannanayakkara4162]

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.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

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.

[@shytoad720]

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

[@VidarrKerr]

Well, you would definitely get a fine for smoking.

[@unknownuser_99]

Scandalous! 😧

[@bodudito8638]

Arthur morgan minuto 0:54

[@shanec9325]

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??

[@rocktapperrobin9372]

it’s been remastered and the sound is added

[@MATIASMEILIH]

De quien es la música??? Parece Gismonti...

[@shanec9325]

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

[@Red_____]

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

[@debranchelowtone]

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.

[@elisadjones]

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@zackstrunin6440]

What is this song

[@julesf.meloborges811]

Some obscure Ragtime piece.

[@chichakly]

does anyone know the title to the soundtrack?

[@eduardjozefgregor5103]

Není to mistr světa v šachu Emanuel Lasker ?

[@BriceCatherin]

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?!

[@AtheistOrphan]

BriceCatherin - Drugs.

[@BriceCatherin]

@@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

[@VidarrKerr]

@@BriceCatherin Drugs and a lot of absinthe. Absinthe was really popular with artists and "Bohemians" during this time (Europe mostly).

[@JoM934]

A lot of old films were reshot because the film tape would worn out. I guess they didn't take good care of it

[@debranchelowtone]

@@JoM934 It was also flamable.

[@irtvlcanicline1904]

Wait a minute Where is Arthur Morgan ?

[@zaidanahnaf9431]

Watching this in theater with Mary

[@cs8499]

Who ever made this film straight up mocking Wes Anderson.. shame on you people.

[@p_sthundergamer6750]

RIP

[@kiltedjohn1000]

in india there still not allowedto kiss in their movies?

[@VidarrKerr]

They still poop in the streets too.

[@dev4911]

In today's Indian films, they show almost everything.

[@sachinsingh-rh6fq]

It's clear than latest ufo videos...

[@niakaproductions2020ukus]

Date:November 22, 1935

[@samuelcrandall1180]

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.

[@kindersurprise7553]

Thank.

[@3d-marabu]

such a scandal 🤣😅

[@Mark-uh7cr]

Mmmmm a cigar kiss... blecch

[@VidarrKerr]

I thought the same thing --all I could think was yuck. I can't even stand my own mouth after a cigar.

[@moisesdavidorozcosanchez7433]

1:11 Ay dios mío que calidad más horrible me da miedo la calidad de los años 1899

[@Jehoshabeath]

First porn film ever.

[@ryanconrath2992]

Scandalous, really!

[@ehollandbkk]

As long as it doesn't frighten the horses...

[@Whoville3]

Era Javukh You got that right Era 😉

[@jeremymullins1294]

"After The Ball" (1897) shows a lady's backside.

[@radias2589]

No that was in 1915

[@marklilly386]

Que calor, señores, que calor. Casi tan bueno como Pornhub.

[@volodymyrrhapon5666]

Love Forever!

[@blackeyedkids7047]

Red dead 2

[@dumitriudaniela]

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

[@rocktapperrobin9372]

brilliant

[@facts8028]

Aditya 😂👉

[@judymotto272]

I could tell she wanted him

[@AmericanMinutemen]

Perhaps, an allusion to sex.

[@layl33na]

No, wtf did I watch? Is this romance? *are you sure this is romance?* _BYE SISTER_

[@michaeljohndadd545]

100th comment

[@Jeong-eun]

구라

[@Aristarhos_Kapotiadis]

Για το μπούτσο ταινία.