Blackfriars Bridge (film)
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''Blackfriars Bridge'' (AKA: ''Traffic on Blackfriars Bridge'') is an 1896 British
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black-and-white silent actuality film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring top-hatted pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages passing over Blackfriars Bridge, London. The film was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "taken from the southern end looking northwards over the Thames by R.W. Paul in July 1896," and, "screened as part of his
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programme shortly afterwards, certainly no later than 31 August"


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* * 1896 films British black-and-white films British silent short films British short documentary films 1890s short documentary films Films directed by Robert W. Paul {{1890s-UK-film-stub