Originally posted by walshy
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/trivia/35854/23-things-you-may-not-know-about-leedsscribs
5. Louis le Prince recorded the first ever moving pictures in Leeds; the subject was a back garden of a house, and was the first ever moving image in the world (1880). He then went to film the first motion picture, called Crossing Leeds Bridge, in 1888, pioneering the cinematographic industry.
We had a lecture on this, it was pretty damn interesting actually. Le Prince disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and was never found. Conspiracy theories abound