At the time this film was shot, a panorama was considered any moving shot; usually a panorama was obtained by putting a camera on a train and moving the train. Other panoramas were gotten from rickshaws, balloons (for a vertical pan), and the elevator of the Eiffel Tower. What we consider a panorama or pan shot, which is obtained by moving a camera on its axis for a circular progression or part thereof, was much more difficult to obtain. A camera was simply too heavy to move in such a manner, and would continue to be so for two more years, when lighter cameras on tripods became available.
Yet here we are, with a circular panorama from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1897. Hence the title of this review.