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"Something Good – Negro Kiss," is a recently rediscovered 1898 silent short film featuring the earliest on-screen kiss between Black actors. Its recent rediscovery begs the question what other lost pieces of Black film history could be out there, waiting to be found?
Allyson Nadia Field, a film scholar at the University of Chicago, was one of the experts last fall who was able to trace the Chicago origins of "Something Good-Negro Kiss," a recently discovered film clip depicting an early onscreen kiss between two African-Americans, likely shot in 1898.