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A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) video

A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)

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13 years ago on 27 February 2011 20:50

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'A Kiss in the Tunnel' is available to buy as part of the BFI DVD 'Early Cinema Primitives and Pioneers' - [Link removed - login to see]

This story derives from a popular magic lantern slide show and shows a couple in a railway carriage, going into a dark, Freudian tunnel, taking the opportunity to steal a kiss. As the train 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. (Bryony Dixon)

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You can watch over 1200 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank, London and from October 2008 at the new QUAD centre for art and film in Derby -- [Link removed - login to see] [Link removed - login to see]