From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, September 15, 1921: The long kiss of the movies was the topic of a lively discussion at the meeting of the May Wright Sewall State Council of Women today following a report by Mrs. David Ross, president of the Indiana Board of Indorsers of Photoplays. “Can your board do something to stop this showing of long kisses? I went to a motion picture show and could not help noticing in the picture several extremely prolonged kisses. It was very objectionable, very demoralizing, terrible!” Mrs. Thomas C. Day asked. Mrs. Ross said the board had remonstrated against this feature of a picture and the exhibitor cut several feet out of the kiss. One of the women present suggested that the length of the kiss was due to the slowness with which the operator worked the machine.