Pleorama
A pleorama ( Greek πλέω pléo : ship , ὅραμα horama : sight ) is a variant of the panorama image , the aim of which is to show the viewer e.g. B. to show beach areas in an illusion as a large moving (wall) picture as they would actually appear to passers-by.
The pleorama was invented by the architect Carl Ferdinand Langhans and the technician, poet and artist August Kopisch and was first realized in Wroclaw in 1831 : it had the Gulf of Naples as a motif and was made by Kopisch together with the theater painter Antonio Sacchetti . The audience sat in a show- stalls-like roofed-over boat , at the windows of which landscape panoramas were drawn past; in addition, explanations about what had been seen were read out to the audience.
Pleoramas can be classified as the first forerunners of a " virtual reality ", they ring in the era of moving images in the cinema .