Cycloramas

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-07/cycloramas-were-the-imax-cinemas-of-their-age/100602088

"Building a perfectly round apartment building doesn't make any sense.
How can you hang a painting on a curved wall?
Well you can, and they did. A massive one in fact: 15 metres high and 120 metres long, stretching the entire circumference of the building.
And people came in their droves to see it.
This building was never meant to be a place where people lived, it was meant to be a place where people were amazed and astounded.
It was a Cyclorama.
...
Cycloramas have been around for centuries but, in Australia and the United States at least, they enjoyed a bit of a golden period during the last decade of the 19th century.
Effectively, the Cyclorama was a huge circular building in which massive, 360 degree paintings were hung."

Do any of you know of any old Cyclorama buildings that still exist?

Sorontar

Early IMAX

Not a building per say, but the panorama, diorama in Broken Hill is the sort-of thing they would have shown in a cyclorama.

(A bit of guff in the beginning of the video, then the actual diorama.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5op5uNKyI

Synistor 303 wrote:Not a building per say, but the panorama, diorama in Broken Hill is the sort-of thing they would have shown in a cyclorama.

Would have been better if local celebrity artist (now deceased), Pro Hart, had done it out of foodscraps (watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb4n8yc2so if you don't understand the reference).

The interesting architectural aspect is whether a Cyclorama building is circular or just the room. From the ABC article, it seems at least one building in Melbourne was originally circular, in a fashion. I imagine this creates issues if the building is later reused for other purposes, so I doubt many have been retained.

Sorontar