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Leeds - Views From Moving Tram (1903)
 

British Film Institute

Main image of Leeds - Views From Moving Tram (1903)
 
35mm, black & white, 61 feet, silent

A tram journey through busy Leeds streets.

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Evocatively capturing a city already taken over by the hustle-and-bustle of 20th Century life, this vivid phantom ride presents a Leeds high street (thought to be Boar Lane) at a time when motorcars had not yet replaced horsedrawn carriages and when the sight of men wearing sandwich boards was common. Features of today's high street are nonetheless evident: advertisements adorn the street and traffic recklessly fills the road, with one horse-and-cart cutting dangerously in front of the moving tram.

This film is complemented by Street Scene in Boar Lane (1898), which offers an even earlier view of Boar Lane, as well as Leeds - Street Scenes Near Bridge (1903), which presents another area of Leeds in the same year.

Christian Hayes

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Complete film (1:32)
GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO
SEE ALSO
Leeds - Street Scenes Near Bridge (1903)
Street Scene in Boar Lane (Leeds) (1898)
Phantom Rides