本部不足一分钟的黑白爱情默片，只有短短的一个镜头。一男一女相拥着幸福地接吻，不时甜蜜耳语。配乐也轻快活泼。这个短暂的情节出自舞台音乐剧《The Widow Jones》的最后一幕。
这部摄制于1896年的黑白默片《梅·欧文和约翰·赖斯的接吻》，被称作是影史上的第一出吻戏。此片成为当年爱迪生公司最卖座的影片，但大卖的同时也引起轩然大波，首次招致电影审查的压力。

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water from a hose while two workers with long metal rakes wait to spread it out. Other workers buzz in and out of the foreground of the stationary camera. Atop the first level of the brick smelter, workers push full carts of coal along a track.