Editing Cyclorama (section)

==Background==
[[File:Philippoteaux painting Gettysburg Cyclorama.jpg|thumb|right| [[Paul Philippoteaux]] painting the [[Gettysburg Cyclorama]] circa 1883. From the archives of [[Gettysburg National Military Park]] ]]
Panoramas were invented by [[Irish ethnicity|Irish]] painter [[Robert Barker (painter)|Robert Barker]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Nancy|date=7 August 2011|title=Everything Just So: Cycloramas, The North American Tour|url=https://www.chattanoogan.com/2011/8/7/206574/Everything-Just-So-Cycloramas-The.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-19|website=[[The Chattanoogan]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819204230/https://www.chattanoogan.com/2011/8/7/206574/Everything-Just-So-Cycloramas-The.aspx |archive-date=19 August 2021 }}</ref> who wanted to find a way to capture the panoramic view from [[Calton Hill]] in central [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]. He subsequently opened his first cyclorama building in Edinburgh in 1787.

Cycloramas were very popular in the late 19th century.<ref name=":0" /> The most popular traveled from city to city<ref name=":0" /> to provide local entertainment – much like a modern movie.  As the viewers stood in the center of the painting, there would often be music and a narrator telling the story of the event depicted.  Sometimes [[dioramas]] were constructed in the foreground to provide additional realism to the cyclorama.  Most major cities had one;<ref name=":0" /> circular and hexagonal-shaped buildings were constructed in almost every major US and European city to provide a viewing space for the cycloramas.  For example, a 360° depiction of the land and naval [[Siege of Vicksburg|battles of Vicksburg]] was completed and first exhibited in [[Paris]]. This work by [[Lucien-Pierre Sergent]] and Joseph Bertrand traveled to [[New York City|New York]], [[Chicago]] and [[San Francisco]] and [[Tokyo]].<ref>[http://showcase.meijitaisho.net/entry/nihon_panoramakan_03.php  "Land and Naval Battles of Vicksburg, Panorama in Asakusa Park, Tokyo,"] c. 1891; retrieved 2011-06-03</ref> In 1885 the Philadelphia Panorama Company installed the "Battle of Chattanooga" in two units in Kansas City and Philadelphia, it was painted by [[Eugen Bracht]]. In 1892 a cyclorama was made of the 1876  "[[Battle of Little Bighorn]]."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Little Bighorn Cyclorama {{!}} Little Bighorn History Alliance ~ www.littlebighorn.info|url=https://lbha.proboards.com/thread/5455/little-bighorn-cyclorama|access-date=2021-08-19|website=lbha.proboards.com}}</ref> [[Buffalo, New York]] has a surviving cyclorama building from 1888 that has long since been converted to use as private offices.<ref>{{cite web |last1=LaChiusa |first1=Chuck |title=The Cyclorama Building |url=https://www.buffaloah.com/a/franklin/369/tc.html |website=Buffalo as an Architectural Museum |publisher=BuffaloAH..com |access-date=2 October 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama, Pay Streak, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909 (AYP 362).jpeg|thumb|Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama building at the [[Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition]] in 1909]]
Hundreds of cycloramas were produced; however, only about thirty survive.

An extension of this concept into motion pictures was pioneered with the invention of the [[Cinéorama]] that debuted at the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 Paris Exposition]]. This evolved into such formats as [[IMAX]] and [[Circle-Vision 360°]].