🧵It's funny to me how #TheMandalorian popularized the "on-set virtual production" which is a fancy way of saying Hollywood finally, officially, reinvented the "moving panorama" 🤭
Moving panoramas have been a form of entertainment for centuries, though largely forgotten by all but folks with niche interests (👋)now. The concept is the same though.
Sometimes the panorama itself didn't move. The viewer did. Structures were built all over major cities in the 19th century to house multi-story panoramas. Here's one from Regent's Park in London, circa 1829.
Customers would climb the circular staircase in the center to get a 360-degree "bird's eye view" of the city. Here's an illustration showing people walking around the covered walkway (lower left) for a sense of scale.
This is an earlier one from the 18th century in Leicester Square.
Sometimes they were three-dimensional, as this one of the Trans-Siberian railway from the Paris World Fair in 1900 (the rail was still under construction, so this was PR)
Anyhoo, time is a flat circle, etc. etc.
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