That the Institute has revealed to British media.
This is a live broadcast from June 1962 when the play You in Your Small Corner was broadcast. The story is about a Jamaican who while studying in England in love. According to BFI, the fragment showing the couple kissing, never to be aired.
The credit for the interracial kiss on (US) television is mainly attributed to Star Trek in which a white and dark character in 1968 kissing can be seen
In Britain they thought four years earlier to be with the breaking of the taboo. in 1964 was in the soap opera Emergency Ward 10 with an interracial couple kissed. Now it appears that so even six years earlier.
Groundbreaking
A spokesman for the BFI calls it in a statement an “important rediscovery” of “pioneering” television. “It demonstrates the role of television drama as a reflection of our society.”
The fragment will be shown later this month at a panel meeting of the BFI called Race and Romance on television.
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