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The Odessa Steps Sequence from Battleship Potemkin (1925) ("Battleship Potemkin")
This is the grandfather of all staircase scenes. This 11 minute long sequence begins with the crowd welcoming the ship and its' mutinous crew into port and ends with a massacre as imperial czarist troops and cassocks relentlessly kill the people cheering the Potemkin crew. This is where the baby carriage rolling down the steps image came from - a scene that Brain DePalma did do homage to in the shootout on the Union Station steps scene in his remake of "The Untouchables"
TitlesBattleship Potemkin