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Updated: May 1, 2025
The box was placed on the table, which was then moved to the end of the room, and the chairs were ranged in two rows in front. The 'Pandorama' consisted of a stage-front made of painted cardboard and fixed on the front of a wooden box about three feet long by two feet six inches high, and about one foot deep from back to front.
The 'Show' was a lot of pictures cut out of illustrated weekly papers and pasted together, end to end, so as to form a long strip or ribbon. Bert had coloured all the pictures with water-colours. Just behind the wings of the stage-front at each end of the box was an upright roller, and the long strip of pictures was rolled up on this.
The idea of constructing this machine had been suggested to Bert by a panorama entertainment he had been to see some time before. 'The Style of the decorations, he remarked, alluding to the painted stage-front, 'is Moorish. He lit the candles at the back of the stage and, having borrowed a tea-tray from Nora, desired the audience to take their seats.
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