Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses

Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses is a 1889 British short silent actuality film, shot by inventor and film pioneer William Friese-Greene on celluloid film using his 'machine' camera. The 20 feet of film, which was shot in autumn 1889 at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London, was claimed to be the first motion picture, although Louis Le Prince successfully shot on glass plate before 18 August 1887,[1] and on paper negative in October 1888. It may nonetheless be the first moving picture film on celluloid and the first shot in London. It was never publicly screened, although several photographic journalists saw it during his lifetime — including Thomas Bedding, J. Hay Taylor and Theodore Brown. It is now considered a lost film with no known surviving prints and only one possible still image extant. [2]

Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses
This is the Lumière film of Piccadilly Circus, dated July-August 1896
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

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Notes
  1. Letter dated 18 August 1887 in Louis Le Prince Collection at Leeds University Library
  2. dclensy (17 December 2009). "The Bristol man who invented the movies". This Is Bristol. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2011.


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