Word: cyclorama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until George Strock photographed the cyclorama at Gettysburg for TIME (see ART), no one had ever before made a continuous still photograph of this circular panorama...
...rotating at a speed synchronized with the exposure of a 6-ft.½-film strip. But this turntable could only be set up at one side of the pole. And inevitably the pole was going to block one section of the battle scene as the camera rotated within the cyclorama...
...Largest: The Battle of Atlanta, a 4OO-by-so-ft. cyclorama now on permanent exhibit in Atlanta's Grant Park...
...stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start with Tobacco Road. But the halt was only temporary...
This tasteless yarn may well be the beginning of a new "cyclorama," though Author Caldwell admits that he sometimes stares at his typewriter for three days without being able to write a word. The words he has already written have made him one of the world's bestselling authors in reprint (more than 28 million copies) and one of Soviet Russia's favorite U.S. writers...