This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several groups of people are seen enjoying the ride down the incline.
Watch the official Steeplechase, Coney Island 1903 trailer in HD below.
United States 13 June 1903
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1903:
11 July 1903
First part in Napoleon's short film life adaptation, followed by L'Empire (grandeur et décadence). The scenes are: At school in Brienne.
05 December 1903
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with simply offering a fancifully illustrated late episode without the earlier narrative context (however, spoken narration provides some of the latter in this restored print).
08 July 1903
Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience.
22 May 1903
A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once.
11 May 1903
Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.
12 September 1903
Images of a hunting party with the Swedish King Oscar II, Prince Christian, Prince Gustav, Prince Valdemar and Prince Georg.
10 December 1903
The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond.
01 May 1903
To fill their jars with water, a group of women gathered around the well. At one point comes Samaria, a woman known for her bad temper.
19 May 1903
This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch.
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