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...seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city so charged with energy that the very air tingled with it?" Certainly not in drab, dreary, bombed...
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Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
...Photomaton, another self-photographing machine, seems to have lost popularity. The customer must turn and change face quite briskly to get different poses while the camera shutter flicks eight times. President is Major General Robert Courtney Davis (retired), onetime Adjutant General of the U. S. Army. Last October Photomaton Inc. and its operating company went into receivership. Whereabouts and activities of Anatol Josepho, Russian-born inventor, who reputedly received $1,000,000 for the Photomaton idea, last week were unknown to company officials...
...uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three hours long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews in a small town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends...