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The story was the subject of the 1998 television film The Staircase, starring Barbara Hershey and William Petersen.
For instance a handclap in front of the staircase of the El Castillo pyramid is followed by an echo that resembles the chirp of a quetzal as investigated by Declercq.
By the 1920s the house was falling into decay and around 1950 the staircase was purchased by William Randolph Hearst.
Since then the house has been left to collapse although the staircase still exists in storage at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
A painting entitled “Assassination of Governor Bustamante” was done by Félix Resurrección Hidalgo depicting the friars murdering Bustamante by dragging him down the staircase.
A notable feature of Hanbury Hall is the painting of the staircase, hall ceiling, and other rooms by the English painter Sir James Thornhill.
He wrote two other pieces: back in Algeria he wrote La Vocation de 'abus et L'Escalier d'en face ("The Calling of abuse and the staircase opposite") and in Rio de Janeiro he began to write Les Orphelins de l'Empereur ("The Children of the Emperor").
Palazzo del Bovolo was chosen by Orson Welles as one of the main filming locations (Brabantio's house) for his 1952 screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello and the staircase is prominently featured in the film.
The ancestral estate hosts The Brown Lady, first photographed in 1938 as a wispy figure descending the staircase.
The handrail on the staircase is of a molding and shape very similar to that found at the nearby Locust Lawn Estate and its accompanying Terwilliger House.
His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.
The wall of the staircase is decorated with a quotation from The Aeneid by Virgil: Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time".
The towers at Waddesdon were based on those of the Château de Maintenon, and the twin staircase towers, on the north facade, were inspired by the staircase tower at the Château de Chambord.