Le Prince used non-perforated sensitized Kodak roll-paper film for these frames which remain twenty in all. These frames show daily traffic crossing the River Aire in Leeds England and were photographed in October 1888 by Le Prince. According to Michael Harvey of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in London, "These only exist today as photographic copies, made in the 1930s, of parts of the paper film strips".
Although never shown publicly, or announced to the world, Le Prince did present his cinematography of the "Leeds Bridge Traffic" (also known as 'Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge') in the Whitley factory two years before Donisthorpe and seven years before the Lumiere's cafe presentation.