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backcloth
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backcloth
a large painted curtain hanging at the back of a stage set
backdrop
On the theater stage, a large, taut, flat canvas, usually hung from the grid at the rear of the stage to mask the backstage area.
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The backcloths for the films and early post cards were painted in Bamforths' studios in Holmfirth and one painted by James Bamforth himself still survives.
Lantern slides to comic cards... HOLME VALLEY by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The art centre's stark Butterworth Hall may seem an unlikely place to recreate the degradation and sexual excesses of the court, but Ellen promises that, with clever use of backcloths, sets, and special effects such as flaming torches, it can be done.
GO: CLASSICAL: RAUNCHY RIGOLETTO by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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