Battle of Chateau-Thierry at Coney Island

8x10 Photo. This elaborate showfront for the Battle of Chateau-Thierry depicts many signs urging patrons to understand that the show was not a movie, but a cyclorama-like battle painted on canvas 315 x 50 ft high. Perspective obtained with painted screens at various distances. Small parts of the cyclorama such as motor trucks, tanks and a bridge that drops out of sight in a cloud of steam when "blown up" used electric flashes, jets of steam, drums, rifles and machine gun to make battle realistic.