Wouldn't you rather be sitting on a nice carriage now, torn by two beautiful stallions and you wouldn't even have to direct them. Just lean back and enjoy the scenery.I don't think this film has any other value besides the historic, but heaps thereof. It's a document of a time long gone and living in a big city I barely never see horses on the streets anymore. Shame. Occasionally newly-weds or tourists, but that's it. Also I wouldn't mind seeing elegant dresses like the one the woman who enters the picture from the bottom is wearing more frequently again. Good ol' days. Somebody should do a video of the exact place this year and I'd wonder how our grand-grandchildren will perceive it 125 years from now.

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge is one of the few surviving films made by the inventor of cinema, Louis Le Prince. Le Prince mysterious disappearance before getting a patent for his invention caused the loss of practically all his productions, which he had taken on a train with him, therefore we will never know the full extension of his works; fortunately a few fragments of his films survived in his workshop, including the title we are reviewing. Probably this film was originally a little bit longer, but we can only see two seconds of the picture which consists on a fixed view of a bridge in the town of Leeds, the camera captured the people walking and the carriages pulled by horses. All that people never knew they were being recorded and that other people would be seeing them hundreds of years in the future, how could imagine such a thing was possible in those years? very few persons and Le Prince was one of them. Despite its short length the film is a very valuable historical document, we are seeing one of the most important cities in the world in those years, Leeds, watching things just as they unfolded on a day of 1888. Also, as in every Le Prince film, this title offers a new element that was used for the first time in the annals of cinematography; in this case the first time that an film was made on exteriors. It is a very old film, and therefore it can't be judged under the same standards than other pictures, but every true fan of the seventh art should watch this film in order to witness the first steps of a marvelous invention. If you visit the city of Leeds today you'll find a plaque marking the exact point were Le Prince placed his camera to make this shots, it is great that the city of Leeds proudly remembers that it is the place were cinema was invented, and it is great that they honor Le Prince, we all should, for his invention he deserves our eternal gratitude.

This film is the second film ever. The Roundhay Garden Scene is the first film ever made but this is, well, the second film ever made. I like this better than the Roundhay Garden Scene. The Roundhay Garden scene was kind of, what you call, creepy. This film is not-so-much.This two second film has no plot. There is traffic crossing a bridge that is apparently called Leeds. There is people walking on side-walks. There are a couple of carriages. One second is left. There are people riding horses. The people are still walking. The people are still riding. The people are still sitting in carriages. In two seconds the film is over.This is the second film, and it shows, but this is a great film that never be forgotten. Well, maybe it will.10/10

How interesting, moving images from 1888. This film only plays for two seconds and could be considered as the second film ever made, after 'Roundhay Garden Scene' from the same year and same director.That director is Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, who mysteriously disappeared in 1890 after making only these two short films. Le Prince is the first great name when you talk about motion pictures, even though Lumière and Edison are much more famous. Seeing his two films, both two seconds long, gives a special feeling. Basically you are watching the birth of cinema. It is the same feeling you get while watching early work from Edison (his kinetoscopic record of a sneeze), Lumière (the arrival of a train) and Méliès (the first science-fiction narrative). You should try it!By the way. The two seconds shows the Leeds Bridge full with pedestrians, horses and carriages.