A Total Accident

A Total Accident — Plot

Showing the entire catastrophe resulting from the attempt of Mr. Gorham to ride around the loop the loop on a bicycle. While the enormous crowd watches him he comes down the slide with the speed of the wind, circles the loop, but as he nears the bottom his wheel swerves from the path and the rider crashes into the framework of the structure. Attendants rush up and carry away the injured man. (Biograph Catalog)

• Release date
• July 31, 1903
• Runtime
• 1 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Wallace McCutcheon Sr.