London's Trafalgar Square

London's Trafalgar Square (1890)

The title of this film tells you exactly what you see for three seconds. Yes, you get to see London's Trafalgar Square for a total running time of three seconds.

I'm sure you could show this movie to millions of people today and they wouldn't give it a second thought but film buffs will certainly be entertained by these few seconds simply because they will know that it was the very start of a new format. The first "movie" was credited in 1888 so this here comes two years after that so of course there's no plot or length to it. If you're a film buff you'll certainly love getting to see such early footage.

After Louise Le Prince shown us a Leeds, and traffic crossing bridge in Leeds, Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts decided to show us a capital -> London.

This movie is 2 year younger, or we can say that on another way, film made in Leeds is 2 years older than this movie and we can see how quality of this movie improved compared to older movie, and when I say quality of movie, i primarily think about quality of picture.

I wondered why we see Trafalgar square through circle shaped frame and I think that i found reason - they filmed this with an oval or circular frame on celluloid film using their 'kinesigraph' camera.