SCREEN KISSES
CHANGE IN REGULATIONS "AS LONG AS DECENT" Screen kisses are to be bigger and better. The Hays Office regulations limiting osculation to ten seconds of screen running time have recently been lifted. Under the new order “a kiss may last as long as requisite to the stoiy—so long as it is decent.” In case you’ve never bothered to investigate the matter with a stop watch, the average running time of a screen kiss in the past was seven and a-half seconds, using up approximately eleven feet of film. With the withdrawal of the Hays edict all records are likely to be broken. In “Rangers of Fortune, ’ for instance, Fred Mac Murray bestows on Patricia Morison a kiss that will hold up the film for forty seconds, and consume sixty feet of celluloid. The justification given is that the story is set in 1870 and as the embrace represented the acceptance of a proposal of marriage a modern peck-and-run job wouldn’t do.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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163SCREEN KISSES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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