ZF> However, the information came forward from a few students doing research
 ZF> at the UCLA Film School, going through TV archives.  The story I've 
eard
 ZF> was that it was a matter of researching how minorities were portrayed in
 ZF> TV shows, and discovering that not all Negroes of the era were portrayed
 ZF> "a la AMOS 'N ANDY"...they found the all kinescopes of the show, the 
nly
 ZF> existing copies, and one of them portrayed the interracial kiss.  The
 ZF> clips I saw of the show did not include the scene, but the news report
 ZF> made mention of it.  Later, it was in a 'retrospective' of TV
 ZF> history...another mention, but no clip of the scene itself.
I saw a clip on TV several years ago -- probably more than the 3-4 years
you cite.  As I recall, it was an anthology series. Playhouse 90, or
some such program.  Anthologies were common in the 50s.  The woman was a
housekeeper.  The young man was maybe circa 20.  They were in the
kitchen, talking.  The woman gave the young man a kiss.
 ZF> Whether it is 'convenient disremember' or simply ignorance of the
 ZF> information, I don't know...
Probably the latter.  The first hormone-based interracial kiss on TV was
probably in Laugh-In, as I said in a previous message.
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