Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, Gift of Fire devotes fetishistic attention to what is probably the first film in history: Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince's 1888 footage of traffic crossing Leeds Bridge. Jacobs continues his intellectual and scientific experimentation with cinema history and visual phenomena by displaying the footage in anaglyph 3-D color, intercut with contextual text and other legendary film scenes, such as the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. The Leeds fragment, only nineteen frames long, is of a relatively mundane street scene. In Gift of Fire, Jacobs underscores the monumental implications of its honored place at the dawn of moving image art.