 
<p>Animation showing two nude women kissing. The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.muybridge.org/">Eadweard Muybridge Online Archive</a> "believe[s] Muybridge's Plate 444 was the first time that a kiss was documented over time through photography and that this represents the first kiss ever filmed. We made our first kiss film loop from the top row of eight images."<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.muybridge.org/Art/First-Filmed-Kiss/15747607_2QMg8k#!i=1180623579&amp;k=Rp6xL">[1]</a></sup></p><p>"The Kiss, like most of the image sequences in the Muybride Online archive, was produced some time between 1872 and 1885, significantly before the invention of the motion picture camera. It was created using banks of still cameras firing in sequence. Essentially every one of Muybridge’s plates is a film first."<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.muybridge.org/Art/First-Filmed-Kiss/15747607_2QMg8k#!i=1182259047&amp;k=NL63p">[2]</a></sup></p><p>Created from the top line of images on Plate 444 of:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge" class="extiw" title="en:Eadweard Muybridge">Muybridge, Eadweard</a> (1887). <i>Animal Locomotion: an Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885. Vol. IV: Females (nude).</i> Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17496718">17496718</a>.
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Animation created by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.muybridge.org/">Eadweard Muybridge Online Archive</a>, and shared "copyright free"<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.muybridge.org/">[3]</a></sup> as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4" class="extiw" title="en:MPEG-4">MPEG-4</a> (mp4) video. Converted to animated gif by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:TimofKingsland&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:TimofKingsland (page does not exist)">TimofKingsland</a>.
Frames photographed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge" class="extiw" title="en:Eadweard Muybridge">Eadweard Muybridge</a>, animation by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.muybridge.org/">Eadweard Muybridge Online Archive</a>.
1872–85 (photographed); 1887 (images published); 2011 (animation published); 2012 (conversion to animated gif)
<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.muybridge.org/Art/First-Filmed-Kiss/15747607_2QMg8k#!i=1182259047&amp;k=NL63p">[4]</a>