 One of the most elaborate visual responses to the disaster was a "Myriorama" (a neologism meaning "many scenes") titled "The Loss of the Titanic" performed by Charles William and John R. Poole, whose family had been staging such shows since the 1840s.It involved the use of a series of scenes painted on fine gauze sheets, manipulated in such a way that they would appear to dissolve from one scene to the next while music was played and a dramatic and emotive recital was performed in the foreground.According to the publicity material for the "Titanic" Myriorama, it featured "the spectacle staged in its entirety by John R. Poole, and every endeavour made to convey a true pictorial idea of the whole history of the disaster ...