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When I watch movies, I always take pictures of the kissing scenes!!
These stills are from The Love Trap (1929), one of the first films to use sound. This was an incredible movie – the first half was all silent with a musical score that punctuated the action. It also had only a few title cards which left it up to the viewer to read the lips to follow the action. It was so amusing and well done! There is a particularly riviting scene where the heroine has a cocktail spilt on her dress and she’s wandering the streets of NYC half naked in the rain. Halfway through the film the sound comes in, just in time for a lusty revenge scene.
They had fallen asleep on the cab ride to her house. In this scene, they are still sleeping, and a jolt in the road causes them to kiss.
And then they kissed for real.
You can see how sweet these kisses are.
Of course they are married. This is the “welcome home” kiss, where he scales the balcony to meet her.
