Cirkuts Rule!

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Originally Posted by Petzi

I wish this business model would work today. But it seems pretty hard to motivate people for a large group shot. I know they still do this kind of thing in China.

Also, Cirkuts and other panorama cameras were used for decades at The Capitol, taking photos of high school groups coming to Washington along with their Senator or Congressman, usually lined up in 3-5 rows.

My parents' living room has one of these when my mother's high school class (Morristown (Tennessee) High, class of 1954) travelled to D.C.; and as part of the joke about them being a bunch of hillbillies, the guys in the group were barefoot for the shot.