PHOTOS: There's a famous movie star featured in Atlanta Cyclorama

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Atlanta Cyclorama at the Atlanta History Center “In 1939 when the white stars of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ the Black stars were not invited, to the premiere in Atlanta, Clark Gable, Vivian Lee visited the cyclorama at the behest of the mayor of Atlanta,” Gordon Jones from the Atlanta History Center said. “Clark Gable supposably said ‘Hey, this is all great, except for one thing, I’m not in the painting.’ So, the mayor did the next best thing, he had Clark Gable sculpted as one of the little figurines and put him on the diorama as a dead Union soldier.” (Jason C. Hales/Atlanta History Center)

Atlanta Cyclorama at the Atlanta History Center “Imagine the viewer in 1886, you’ve never seen color photographs, about the only thing that you see are woodcuts in a newspaper, black and white, still images,” the Atlanta History Center’s Gordon Jones said. “You’ve never seen anything this size. You’ve never seen films. And you walk into this space and you’re completely immersed in this scene, and you can’t see where it ends in your peripheral vision and you can’t see where it ends at the top or the bottom. You’re in the middle of the battle. You’ve never seen anything like this before.” (Nelson Hicks)

February 08, 2022 at 10:19 pm EST

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