£200,000 FOR AN INVENTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 May 1927, Page 12

£200,000 FOR AN INVENTION

PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE CLEVER YOUNG RUSSIAN Anatol Josepho, a young Russian inventor who went to New York three years ago, has just received from a group of men, headed by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the former United States Ambassador to Turkey, a cheque for £200,000 for his interest in an automatic photographing device, says the New York correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Six months ago Josepho opened a studio in Broadway at which bystanders, by placing Is in the slot, could take a series of eight photographs of themselves in different poses. Crowds gathered nightly outside the studio and formed long lines in front of the five “photomatons” decorated with invitations to “make your own movies for a shilling.” Among them, one evening, was Governor Smith, of New York State, and Senator Wagner, who took photographs of themselves with their hats and cigars at different angles in each of the eight poses. Mr. Morgenthau announces his intention of establishing “Photomatons” in Coney Island, Atlantic City - and dozens of other cities, and it seems possible the equipping of every city in the United States with its own photomaton—“of doing, in fact, in the photograph field what Woolworth has accomplished in novelties and Ford in motor-cars.” The young inventor is a Socialist and he states he is devoting £IOO,OOO to philanthropic objects and the other half of his £200,000 to helping other deserving inventors.