BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery

[WillParkinson]

BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery

Sean Connery was featured in what is believed to be television's first male-to-male kiss, in 1960.Sean Connery was featured in what is believed to be television's first male-to-male kiss, in 1960.

TV researchers at the British Film Institute (BFI) have revealed they have footage of what is believed to be the first known male-to-male kiss on UK television featuring Sean Connery.

The tapes originally belonged to Public Broadcasting Service WNET New York, which broadcast them after they had been shown in the UK on BBC or ITV. In the scene, which appeared in the 1960 BBC drama Colombe, Connery kisses Richard Pasco, who plays his brother.

Connery’s character suspects his brother is sleeping with his wife, played by Dorothy Tutin. In an attempt to understand what his brother has that he lacks, he kisses him.

The footage, which was found at the US Library of Congress and given to the BFI, has led to questions over how it came to be screened.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/06/06/bfi-has-footage-of-first-male-to-male-television-kiss-featuring-sean-connery/

[xchrom]

1. Wow. & with 007! Nt

[Fearless]

2. Good gravy that is the worst plot I've ever heard of!!

But very nice to see the exposure nonetheless!

[beyurslf]

3. So the public accepted a man kissing his brother to see how his brother kissed

but wouldn't accept two men who loved each other kissing in passion?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[William769]

4. Good find. Thanks!

[harmonicon]

5. Punctuation is awesome.

"they have footage of what is believed to be the first known male-to-male kiss on UK television featuring Sean Connery."

Are they not sure that it's Sean Connery, or are they not sure it's his first male-to-male kiss on UK television? ... or ... just maybe ... there was some bad copy-editing.

[mockmonkey]

6. Reminds me of this on Phil Donahue

about 2:25 in the audience shrieks in horror at two men (almost) kissing in a Public Access Gay Soap Opera

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[BudGood]

7. Not so fast...

If you are talking about the first man-to-man kiss on a British film, then okay... I'm an American and who am I to argue about British films. However, there is at least "one" man to man kiss on American television which dates back to 1941. I would like to point out that it was "not" a gay kiss.

On a 1941 episode of The Three Stooges entitled, "In the Sweet Pie and Pie", Moe and Curly kiss each other right on the mouth. Yes, the two are actually brothers in real life. But, they weren't necessarily portrayed that way in the film. Either way, for two men to kiss each other on camera (or likewise), whether they were brothers or not, was absolutely taboo back in 1941. I guess the difference was that it was comedy. And in comedy, they could get away with a lot of firsts. The Stooges also lampooned Adolf Hitler in the 1941 film, "I'll Never Heil Again", right at the peek of Hitler's dictatorship. That boiled down to being nothing short of a propaganda film during WWII.

They may have been just "The Three Stooges" to most people. But, they were also "ground breakers" in my opinion.

[MADem]

8. I know it wuz you, Fredo...you broke my heart. You Broke My HEART!!!