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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12632, 8 December 1911, Page 9

All London is being biofixed.. Old' [men and young, pretty giris and the i reverse, form m queues daily outside .the operating rooms of the Biofixer, m the btrand, and hustle one another m f their eagerness to be biofixed. It is v £ 6 j *f ra °* P hot ogi*aphy. Gas heralded the age of painless * tooth, extracting. Biotixing heralds" the* ace of painless photography—the doom /oi -the set pose- and the well-worn phrase, rxease keep .you ...head* still, and look | pleasant.' Its results are marvellous. Instead of the one photograph illustrating one facial expression— more often than not the very one that, the person photographed did not mean to weai-y the Biofixer shows you an" " animated , being similar to the animated figure 'on the screen of a bioscope. He. takes, m fact, hundreds of photographs, which are placed hi a small machine, ami' on turning the handle the person biofixed sees himself as he really is— xind not a motionless figure with a smile, that nothing can remove. As; a permanent record for future use, of -people as. they were, say, tvtenty years before, the process should be of inestimable .value.Jfc should seal the doom of the inevitable photograph album which shows father at twenty-one— a portrait which father considers a gross libel on him at that age.