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Turn Out of the Leeds Fire Brigade (1901)
Scenes in Leeds city centre as Edwardian firemen roll through on drill.
Overview
For all its silence, this film is weirdly evocative of the sounds of the Edwardian street: the thundering of iron-shod hooves on cobbled streets, the clanging of fire engines' bells, the shouts and laughs of the crowd. The shot of firemen assembling for a photograph is a real highlight: their merry tomfoolery is a world apart from the austere still portraits we're used to seeing.
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