Something Good – Negro Kiss

Something Good – Negro Kiss
Directed byWilliam Selig
StarringSaint Suttle
Gertie Brown
Distributed bySelig Polyscope through Sears & Roebuck
Release date
  • 1898 (1898)
Running time
29 seconds (1st rediscovered version)
49 seconds (2nd rediscovered version)
CountryUnited States
Languagesilent

Something Good – Negro Kiss is an American short silent film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made. The film was a lost film until its rediscovery in 2017, and was added to the American National Film Registry in 2018.