Saturday, June 13, 2009

the first kiss


Do you remember the first kiss on local Chinese drama??

Chinese drama productions in the company started when it rolled over to a statutory board –the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. The first was Seletar Robbery broadcast in July 1982 followed by the Army Series. Both were popular with the locals. But one of the common complaints at that time was that the dramas were ‘clean’ and not so realistic. Unlike the shows on US television and Hongkong. For example there was no kissing scenes. The producers were concerned that SBC's government regulator might not like it. And so this feedback was noted and with more Hongkong producers recruited..what the heck if there was no kissing Singapore's local drama would never compete with Hollywood and Hongkong! Eventually the first kissing came about in one of the series on channel 8. (Can anyone reading answer this .. who were the actor/actress in the first kissing scene of our local drama and the title of the drama series? The first correct answer will receive a prize from the blog administrator. You can email or use the comments link)
The newspapers went to town when the first kiss by our local artists was telecast on channel 8 in the 80s.
And for info the first kiss in US was recorded in 1896 on motion picture in a film by Thomas Edison. It was between John C. Rice and actress May Irwin (please watch http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-kisses.php)
And the first inter-racial kiss on US television was in the Star Trek series episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” first aired in Nov 1968.....
Please email information on your favouriste kisses on foreign and local television, maybe from your personal experience as well . email: tay.philip@gmail.com




2 comments:

Kelly said...

Chen Shucheng and Huang Peiru
The Awakening, 1984

blog boss said...

Hi Kelly. Correct answer. It was in episode
10 of the Awakening an epic drama
series which covers Singapore's history from 1920s to 1940s. There
were memorable scenes like the landing of immigrants during the turn of the century and labour urrests in the fifties.
Please send me your email to tay.philip@gmail.com to inform you where to collect your prize.