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Wysłany: Sob 12:17, 27 Lip 2013 Temat postu: there's a feller |
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by the painting's edge, they shared its scale. The paintings dazzled their audiences. During the day, they were lit by skylights in the center of the dome. A screen hung above the platform left the audience obscured in dim shadows, gazing out at the blue sky of the canvas sparkling with sunlight. At night,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the effect was even more intense. The Boston Cyclorama boasted that its state-of-the-art electric lighting used "a Ball 25-lighter, 10 amphere current,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," powered by "a Southwark engine and a Hodge Steel boiler." For audiences for whom the electric light remained something of a wondrous novelty,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the extended hours offered a new appeal. "Those that have seen the Cyclorama by daylight should see it by electric light,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," the proprietors urged. It was a frozen slice of the past, shining with the incandescent glow of the future.Stories circulated of credulous visitors for whom illusion displaced reality. A veteran shouted to his companion: "Down, Bill, down! By t' Lord, there's a feller
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