  
                    A 
                      wild boar savages a man in Arab dress in a tropical forest 
                     
                        
                       
                     
                      - a crocodile snaps at an anteater 
                      
                      
                     
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                    Model-maker 
                    Neville Rainsley's Smallest Show on Earth has electric lights 
                    and a series of miniature curtains with tableaux; the Ferris 
                    Wheel revolves and is electrified. Rainsley's animated models 
                    were displayed at Oxford's St Giles' Fair in the 1920s. The 
                    actual, full-sized rides and shows they depicted were created 
                    and animated by fairground travellers. 
                    
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                    - and a tiger and a venomous snake so battle - the miniature 
                    paintings reveal an ill-informed fascination with exotic places. 
                    
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