Word: sepia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Broadcasting Company put on the air its first public broadcast of still pictures. At London's famed Savoy Hotel a smart array of notables gathered to watch the official reception of a sepia photograph of George...
...portfolio of 30 reproductions of William Blake's water color illustrations for "Night Thoughts"; edited by Edward Young, is being prepared by the Fogg Art Museum, and will be published about November 1. Max Jeffe of Vienna has reproduced 25 plates in sepia and five in color from the original drawings, which were selected from the entire series or 537 illustrations owned by Mrs. William Emerson of Cambridge...
...April 4), paid one Anatol Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal...
...goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real...