BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery [View all]

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BFI has footage of first known male-to-male television kiss – featuring Sean Connery

Sean Connery was featured in what is believed to be television's first male-to-male kiss, in 1960.Sean Connery was featured in what is believed to be television's first male-to-male kiss, in 1960.

TV researchers at the British Film Institute (BFI) have revealed they have footage of what is believed to be the first known male-to-male kiss on UK television featuring Sean Connery.

The tapes originally belonged to Public Broadcasting Service WNET New York, which broadcast them after they had been shown in the UK on BBC or ITV. In the scene, which appeared in the 1960 BBC drama Colombe, Connery kisses Richard Pasco, who plays his brother.

Connery’s character suspects his brother is sleeping with his wife, played by Dorothy Tutin. In an attempt to understand what his brother has that he lacks, he kisses him.

The footage, which was found at the US Library of Congress and given to the BFI, has led to questions over how it came to be screened.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/06/06/bfi-has-footage-of-first-male-to-male-television-kiss-featuring-sean-connery/