Word: cyclorama
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...connected to the White House, a portrait of Lincoln. Adjoining is Ike's beam-ceilinged study, a null room with a masculine air: soft leather lounge chairs, an old Dutch oven, a pine cabinet built from discarded White House timbers. On one wall is a reproduction of a cyclorama (TIME, July 5, 1954) of the Gettysburg battlefield, showing locations of men, guns and horses on July 3, 1863, when Pickett charged toward Cemetery Ridge, just over two miles from Ike's windowsill...
...Providence I ... met quite a number of veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg and always figured that their story was very exaggerated. After reading your story, with its descriptive . . . cyclorama . . . I have a very guilty feeling for ever having doubted their stories. I now can understand, 40 years too late, why they had reason to be so proud of their Rhode Island Red Hot Artillery...
...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...
...camera and turntable on an ingenious sliding platform. When the camera reached the point where the pole got in the way of the continuous picture, the platform - and camera - were pulled smoothly to a new position which permitted a clear view of the final section of the cyclorama...
...cyclorama on the following pages, representing the climax of Pickett's charge, is housed in a special building at the Gettysburg battlefield. Painted in 1881 by French Artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, it is 30 ft. high and 370 ft. in circumference. The view is from behind the Union front line, and as the viewer looks along the painting toward the right, it is as though he is turning from north to east, then toward the south and finally west...