Word: cyclorama
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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...
...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...
...such contemporary makeshifts as remodeled theaters and reconditioned warehouses. He has already blueprinted the ideal TV theater of the future: "It will be a big, empty building measuring 100 by 100 feet, with bleachers at one end for a small audience. One large area will have a 180° cyclorama to form a permanent background for sets and create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor sets. Some of the twelve to 14 cameras will fly overhead on electrically...