In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Fielding S Freed <[log in to unmask]> says:

>        My questions are:What do YOU call dioramas that incorporate
>human beings? Also, is there more than one type of diorama that
>incorporates humans? If you want to factor in scale, that is okay by me.
>How important is a painted backdrop to your definition?
>

I think we're calling them 'vignettes'--recreations of an office, say,
with simplified 2-D human figures.

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