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[PRE-CINEMA] POOLES, The. HARRY & FRED POOLE’S NEW MYRIORAMA. Birmingham: James Upton, Baskerville Printing Works, ca. 1900. Unusual letterpress broadside printed in gold ink on deep blue stock, advertising the moving panoramic travel pictures pioneered by the Poole family, here staged in concert with a host of variety acts, among them a “canine circus,” comedians, acrobats, and concluding with The Myriorgraph, “or improved cinematographe—all the latest war and other films.” 34¾ × 11¼". Old folds, chips, short tears.
For one hundred years, the Poole family was the chief British exhibitor of pre-cinema entertainments, including moving dioramas and panoramas. This bill advertises one of seven shows the family staged around the turn of the twentieth century.