Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo by Ionic pilasters, and crowned with parapet with a frieze of palmettes. The entrance porch has two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment. The rotunda houses an oil-on-canvas painting completed by French artist Louis Dumoulin in 1912, with 14 canvas panels sewn together to create a cylinder approximately in circumference and high. It is lit from above by a ring of glazing around the edge of the conical roof and is viewed from a high platform at the centre of the rotunda. The painting depicts several different episodes from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, concentrating on charges
The Battle of Waterloo (film) After the start of World War I, many of the same filmmakers who produced Waterloo were put to work on propaganda films, the most famous of which is "The Battle of the Somme". The original prints of "The Battle of Waterloo" were made on nitrate film and have since been destroyed by irreversible nitrate decomposition. Only fragments survive in the British Film Institute archive. The entire film was thought lost until 2002, when 22 minutes were rediscovered in the archive. Additional fragments have been compiled, the equivalent of about two and a half reels of film. The Battle of Waterloo