LEEDS FILM POSTER CONCEPTS

The Lumiere Brothers were the first filmmakers; as such, they made their films as independents, without support from a studio, as at that time the major film studios did not exist.  

As Leeds is seen as the birthplace of cinematography, The man behind The First Film also happens to be from Leeds. His pride in that fact is part of the reason why David Wilkinson he has spent the last 30 years trying to persuade people that Le Prince made the first film in his city, in 1888.

A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince conducted his ground-breaking work in 1888 in the city of Leeds in the Yorkshire, England. In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences Roundhay garden scene and a Leeds Bridge street scene using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as William Friese-Greene and Thomas Edison.





Perhaps the Leeds bridge could be included in the design as it is iconic part of history as the first piece of film he ever made essentially maybe the first motion film ever made. 

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History of Film:

Sometimes Sallie Gardner at a Gallop from 1878 is cited as the earliest film.