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Victorian arcades and northern grit: Leeds accidentally hosted the birth of cinema when Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene here in 1888, the oldest surviving film. The city has been in the credits ever since, from football chronicles to traffic crossings. The Damned United manages Leeds United; Roundhay Garden Scene flickered first. Open Leeds on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Roundhay Garden Scene
The earliest surviving celluloid film and believed second moving picture ever created was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood…
A Woman of Substance
A celebration of an indomitable spirit, here is New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford's dazzling saga of a woman who dared to dream--and to triumph against all odds... In the brooding moors above a…
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince shot in late October 1888 showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
Man Walking Around a Corner
The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince who was in Leeds (UK) at that time…
The Damned Utd
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but…
The Nightmare Stacks
Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in…
The First Film
Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds Yorkshire England in 1888.
Accordion Player
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son Adolphe Le Prince playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph…
How to Be Good
In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience.…
Ed Byrne: Pedantic & Whimsical
Ed Byrne is one of the most prolific young comedians in the UK and as an observational stand-up considered unrivalled. He has performed five hit UK tours and has made his London West End debut in a two-week run at The…
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