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Pioneers in filming and temperance

Louis le Prince came to Leeds in 1866 and experimented in cinematography. In 1888 he patented a one-lens camera and filmed activity on Leeds Bridge – probably the world’s first successful moving pictures. Also commemorated on the former Aire & Calder Navigation building is Jabez Tunnicliffe, in the forefront of the temperance movement to encourage people to give up alcohol.