New York: Brooklyn Bridge

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Directed by: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

year: 1896 1 minute

Trolleys interrupt our vision of the distant Brooklyn Bridge, still relatively new when this film was shot, before rumbling on towards its archways. Though the film initially appears an incidental actuality, its bookended open views of the landscape reveal a careful design.