1890 - London’s Trafalgar Square

Filmed in 1890 in Trafalgar Square, London, England. London’s Trafalgar Square is a 1890 British silent black-and-white short film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts at approximately 10 frames per second with an oval or circular frame on celuloid film using their ’kinesigraph’ camera, showing traffic at Trafalgar Square in London. The surviving ten frames of film are the earliest known motion picture of the city