AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 May 1927, Page 5

AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY.

INVESTOR RECEIVES BIG CHEQUE

NEW YORK, April 2

Ana-tol Josepho. a young Russnia .inventor who came here- three years ago, ha® just received from a group of men headed by Henry Morgenthau, the former United States Ambasador to Turkey, iai cheque for £200,000 for his interest in an -automatic photographing device.

Six months ago Josepho opened a studio in Broadway, at which bystanders, by placing 1® in the slot, could take eiglht photographs of themselves in different poses. Crowds gathered nightly outside the istudio and formed long lines in f ront of the five “photomatons” decorated with invitations to “make your own movie® for iai shilling.” Among them-, one evening, was Governor Smith, of New York State, and Senator Wagner, who took photographs of themselves with the hats and cigars at different -angles in each of the eight poises. Mr. Morgenthau announces hi® intention <jf establishing “ Photo m a toms’ ’ in Coney Island, Atlantic City, and dozens of other cities, land it seems possible the equipping with its own photomaton — “of doing, in fact, in the photograph field what Wool worth ha® accomplished in novelties- and Ford .in motor cars.”

The young inventor i® a Socialist, and Ihe -states he i® devoting £IOO,OOO to philanthropic objects and the other half of his £200,01X1 to helping other deservin g in ventors.