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1897: Raoul Sees the Big Picture
Following the invention of his unsuccessful Photachygraph the previous year, French inventor Raoul Grimoin-Sanson moved on to bigger and better things in 1897 when he filed for a patent for his Cineorama (AKA cinecosmorama) on the 27th November. The plan was that ten cameras operated by a single drive handle requiring two or three men to turn it, would be arranged in a circle and film a panoramic view of the entire horizon. The cameras would then be placed in a cylindrical building and their films screened on its walls, thus creating a panoramic view. It was an ambitious plan, and one that would take three years to come to fruition… [ADD]
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