First interracial kiss on television
In many parts of the world social stigma and legislation (such as anti-miscegenation laws) have hindered relations between people from different groups (races).
[1] The programme broadcast multiple instances of real-life husband and wife Desi Arnaz, a Hispanic man, and Lucille Ball, a woman of European ancestry, kissing.
[4] The United States Census Bureau uses the ethnonyms Hispanic or Latino to refer to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race; the Census Bureau states, "People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be any race.
An episode of I Spy titled "The Tiger", broadcast on January 5, 1966,[citation needed] featured a scripted kiss between Eurasian actress France Nuyen and Robert Culp.
[14] Although William Shatner claimed in Star Trek Memories that his lips did not touch those of Nichelle Nichols in the take that was ultimately aired,[15] both actors later asserted that the kiss was real.
Lloyd Reckord and Andrée Melly appeared in the ITV Armchair Theatre adaptation of Ted Willis's play Hot Summer Night, broadcast on 1 February 1959.
This again features Lloyd Reckord, on this occasion with actress Felicity Young, in a storyline concerning an interracial relationship disapproved of by both sets of parents.
[12] You In Your Small Corner was rediscovered during preparations for a November 2015 British Film Institute panel discussion on "Race and Romance on TV" and was used in publicity for the event.
[25] In a 2015 interview, conducted prior to the discovery of the You in Your Small Corner footage, Hooley noted that the historic importance of what had been known as the "first interracial kiss on television" had been inflated in popular memory: A lot of people spoke about it more ten years later than they did at the time it was happening.
Broadcast on 5 January 1959, in the episode "Beeldromance", Afro-American actor Donald Jones sings a song, "Ik zou je het liefste in een doosje willen doen", to Dutch actress Roeki Aronds.
