1888 - Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) - Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

The earliest frames copy belongs to the 1923 NMPFT inventory (frames 118-120 & 122-124), though a larger sequence comes from the 1931 inventory (frames 110-129). Digital footage produced by the NMPFT has 65 frames (run time 2.76 seconds at 23.50 frame/s) although the original Leeds Bridge film of 20 frames was shot by Le Prince's camera at 20 frame/s on a 60 mm film, according to Adolphe Le Prince who assisted his father when this film was shot in late October 1888.

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