The Film Daily (1935)

The Biggest Pix in the World The Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta By BETTY PEELER Publicity Secretary. Atlanta Convention & Tourist Bureau rMHE Cyclorama Painting of the Battle of Atlanta, housed in a specially constructed concrete building in Grant Park, Atlanta, is the largest picture in the world and without a doubt the greatest memorial of its kind of the War Between the States. It is viewed annually by more than 100,000 visitors. This awe-inspiring picture is the sole survivor of three which were painted in the 80's by artists of the staff of William Wehner's studio in Milwaukee. The cyclorama painting of the Battle of Missionary Ridge was destroyed by cyclone and that of Gettysburg lost in a fire. This, of the Battle of Atlanta, alone is left. It is the property of the city and is located on a part of the very ground where was fought the battle that changed the destiny of the Western World. The picture is 400 feet in circumference, 50 feet high and weighs 18,000 pounds. One enters the building through a tunnel and emerges on a platform in the center of the arena. Here is portrayed an area of some 25 square miles with most of the 104,000 Federals and the 42,000 Confederates who took part in that Battle. The picture presents a decisive moment in American History — the moment during the battle of the afternoon of July 22, 1864, when a victorious assault by the Confederates upon the Federal lines Prizes for All in Golf Meet Big Tourney on Bobby Jones' Home Links i I N the golf tourney which is is to be one of the Allied convention's big highlights, to take place Tuesday morning at the East Lake Country Club, the home links of Bobby Jones, everybody will be presented with a prize, the committee announces. A half dozen handsome cups have been donated by southeastern film men for this outdoor sporting event, to be awarded to the best players, and a variety of other souvenirs will be distributed to the east of Atlanta was being re j In this picture, the artists used I less proficient divot diggers. East Lake Country Club — Where Bobby Jones plays golf. Bobby will appear on the links Tuesday morning and will autograph low score balls. pulsed by reinforcements. The exact hour is four o'clock — four hours after General J. B. McPherson had been killed on the Union side, and some three hours after the death of General W. H. T. Walker, of the Confederates. It was at this moment that the keystone of the arch of the Confederate States of America was loosened. Here dauntless American courage met matchless American valor and from such conflict Sherman coined his famous phrase, "War is Hell." The picture is fearfully realistic. One writer said: "Even the clothes speak out. The homespun from the cottonfields of Georgia, woven in the homes of the people, replacing worn-out uniforms, tells a story like that of the last defense of Carthage." The Chinese have a proverb, "One picture is worth a thousand words," and certainly the mind can grasp here in a few moments the horror of war as no printed page could convey that impression. Bobby Jones will be on hand at 9:30 A.M. to tee off with the golf fiends, and later he will autograph balls on low scores. A. C. Bromberg, head of Monogram-Republic in the southeast, and Riley Davis of Theatrical Printing Co. are the cochairmen of this popular event. poetic license to dispel the thick clouds of black powder smoke which otherwise would have obscured the field, and to foreshorten the prospective as if it were through the lenses of binoculars. Otherwise, even to the smallest detail, it is historically true and authentic. Leaders on both sides were sketched from life; studies were gathered with infinite care 20 years after the battle, from first hand authorities and upon the ground itself. It required three artists two years to complete this work. As Gettysburg was said to mark the height of the Confederacy's power of arms, so at Atlanta did that power foresee the end. After the fall of Atlanta, there was no further reasonable hope among the officers of the Confederacy that their new republic would survive. Atlanta's fall on September 1, 1864, so weakened the southern armies that the evacuation of Richmond and the sur . and mountain streams, including I. render at AppomattOX, in April, Blue R'<tee, Lake Burton and Lake Rabun, 1365, became inevitable. rk. comprising .t<>9 acres; site of houtli t stern Fair, Atlanta's annual agricultural 1 ... ii More Places of Interest (.Continued from preceding pane) and picnic grounds; location of building bousing Cyclorama painting and historical locomotive "Texas." LAKEWOOD PARK: (E9) Amusemew" park, comprising .169 acres; site of South eas and industrial exposition, CANDLER ZOO: (43-F5) On Briarclifi Road, estate of Asa ('.. Candler. Jr., said to be the largest private zoo in the world. — And Farther Afield THOMASVILLE, HA. -Location of maid magnificent winter estates. 229 miles from Atlanta. WARM SPRIXCS. GA. Location of amous licinal springs and "Little White House" ;li "other home" 'if President R — evelt. 7: miles from Atlanta. Tiie North Georgia mountain offer a^^ lightful retreat lV pk-a-u!-e-»cekrr-. Nmnif are among the favorite spot ot those who :njoj fishing, swimming and boating.